Nov-13-08
 | | sleepyirv: A highly unusual game- Black appears to think it's a race to the other side of the board with all your pieces. |
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Aug-26-09
 | | GrahamClayton: An amazing game - the Black knights and rooks seem to be having their own game in one corner of the board! |
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Oct-29-22 | | syracrophy: Too bad this wasn't a win for the audacious & creative |
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Oct-29-22
 | | perfidious: 'Highly unusual game' is something of an understatement. |
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Nov-02-22 | | Brenin: A seriously weird game. The pun is beyond me. A reference to 50 moves? |
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Nov-02-22
 | | Breunor: Sorry if I'm dense, I don't get the pun. Is it a reference to 50 Shades of Grey, what is the connection? But a neat game. I'm not sure where black lost the thread, he seems to just keep slipping into a worse and worse position. |
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Nov-02-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: No matter how bad the moves, would not have resisted the temptation to play 38...Qh7; 39.Rc7,Qh8; 40.Any,Bh4. Fischerrandom Chess on the h-file! |
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Nov-02-22
 | | FSR: I also don't understand the pun. |
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Nov-02-22
 | | beatgiant: 50 moves, Black on one side, White on the other, with nothing in between, i.e. "no shades of grey." But there's me punsplaining. |
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Nov-02-22 | | newzild: Still some play left after 50...Kh5 51. Bg5+ Kg7 52. Rc7+ Bf7, unless I'm missing a quick mate. |
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Nov-02-22 | | goodevans: <newzild> I analysed your line forgetting that the SF annotations had already answered your question. As my analysis differs a little from the SF annotation I'll give it anyway for what it's worth. After 50...Kh6 51.Bg5+ Kg7 it seems stronger to play <52.Qc7+> so that after <52...Bf7> White can play <53.Nxe5>. This forces <53...Qh5>.  click for larger viewOnly then did I choose to play <54.Rc7> to pile up the pressure on f7 (I didn't even consider SF's very clever 54.Bh6!). Black is totally lost here, e.g. 54...Rxg5 55.Nxf7 Rg3 56.Ng5+ mates quickly. He can probably delay things a little by chucking away material (e.g. 55...Qg6 56.Ne5+) but even then he won't last more than a few moves. |
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Nov-02-22
 | | al wazir: <Brenin: A seriously weird game.> That's the right word for it. <The pun is beyond me.> "Czerniak" means "black." Does that help? 50. Rh8 would have won the ♕, but 51. fxg4+ Kh6 52. g5# wins the ♔. |
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Nov-02-22
 | | beatgiant: <al wazir>
"Czerni" means "black" (in Polish, probably also other Slavic languagues like Czech), while "aloni" means "halos" (in Italian).I looked up "czerniak" in Cambridge Polish-English dictionary online and found "melanoma," which I guess can be a shade of grey. (Disclaimers: I don't properly speak Polish, nor am I an oncologist.) |
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Nov-02-22 | | Brenin: <al wazir, beatgiant>: Thanks, I should have noticed that, by analogy with "черный" in Russian. |
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Nov-02-22
 | | beatgiant: <Brenin>
Russian has "чёрняк" (black one) and maybe it works for the pun (the halos versus the black one, with no shades of grey) if we ignore the fact that Czerniak is a Polish name. |
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Nov-15-22
 | | Korora: 50 Shades is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be flung down and stamped on! |
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Nov-15-22
 | | fredthebear: What's your take on the movie? |
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