Jan-02-12
 | | GrahamClayton: I am surprised that I am the first person to comment on such a brilliant game. White cannot accept the Queen sacrifice immediately, due to 10. ♗xd8 ♘xf3+ 11. gxf3 ♗xf2+ 12. ♔f1 ♗h3#. 12. O-O fxe2 13. ♕d2 exf1=♕+ 14. ♖xf1 ♖xd8, and Black has too much compensation for the Queen. 20...♘c1! is a problem-like move, not only threatening mate by 21...♖e1# but also keeping the a1-rook out of the game. |
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| Apr-04-15 | | sobic: Beautiful game!!! |
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| Feb-06-17 | | Paarhufer: Beautiful game! But what about 19.. ♖ce2 (20.♖f1 ♖e1)? Looks much easier. The queen sac 9.. ♘xe4! could be answered with 10.dxe4 ♘xf3+ 11.♗xf3 ♕xg5 12.♕xd5 and Black has some compensation for the pawn. |
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| Apr-23-23 | | Honey Blend: White could still have gotten away with 10. ♗xd8?! ♘xf3+ 11. ♔f1 ♘fd2+ 12. ♕xd2 ♘xd2+ 13. ♔e1 ♖xd8 14. ♔xd2 ♗xf2:
click for larger viewBlack has the bishop pair and the superior position, but White still has a fair chance for a draw. |
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| Apr-23-23 | | Brenin: 20 ... Nc1! What a lovely move. And what a final position! |
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Apr-23-23
 | | saffuna: So we're back to "MissScarlett," ("MissScarlett, " "MissScarlett." What a shock. |
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Apr-23-23
 | | perfidious: <Honey Blend....Black has the bishop pair and the superior position, but White still has a fair chance for a draw.> It appears to me Black has a clear extra pawn and the bishop pair on an open board; hard to see White holding this, though he would have lasted longer than in the game continuation. |
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| Apr-23-23 | | Honey Blend: <It appears to me Black has a clear extra pawn> That extra pawn is just icing to Black's superior position cake. Although in perspective this is a 1920s amateur championship, so if I got myself in White's shoes I wouldn't resign outright, might be a good day to die fighting for a draw. |
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| Apr-23-23 | | goodevans: This was not Nice for White. |
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Apr-23-23
 | | FSR: <saffuna: So we're back to "MissScarlett," ("MissScarlett, " "MissScarlett."
What a shock.>
<MissScarlett> has the greatest puns. Just ask her if you don't believe me. |
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Apr-23-23
 | | MissScarlett: I think we can all agree (under threat of deletion/suspension) that I'm doing a great job. |
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Apr-23-23
| | saffuna: Yes. It's a totally fair, unbiased system from our own <Sir Roderick Spode>. I admit there may be one or two things more important than the daily pun, but having the person choosing the puns also submitting puns is certainly an unusual situation. |
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Apr-23-23
 | | Check It Out: Emil was not Yugoslavian (yugger not!)
Fun game. |
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Apr-23-23
 | | beatgiant: <Check It Out> Emil was not Yugoslavian? Where do you think he was from then? Chess Notes 10900 https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... quotes a score of this game that shows his origin as Maribor, a city in the former Yugoslavia. |
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Apr-23-23
| | MissScarlett: <cg> is not a democracy, it's not a meritocracy; befitting the game of kings, it's a monarchy. All hail <Queen Susan>! |
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| Apr-23-23 | | goodevans: <beatgiant: <Check It Out> Emil was not Yugoslavian?> You're both right but <beatgiant> is perhaps a little bit righter. At the time of this game Emil would have been a Yugoslav, that state having been formed roughly three years earlier. But he wasn't born a Yugoslav and may not have considered himself one. |
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| Apr-23-23 | | stone free or die: Good old <Missy>, finger on the pulsation as usual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2...
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Apr-24-23
| | saffuna: <MissScarlett: <cg> is not a democracy, it's not a meritocracy; befitting the game of kings, it's a monarchy.> I'm pleased to see <MissScarlett> concede that his puns are not the best, that favoritism has something to do with it. |
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Apr-25-23
| | perfidious: <zed>, one of those sounds like a potentially hazardous undertaking. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 10...dxe4