Aug-09-20
 | | OhioChessFan: "Ginger Ails" |
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Aug-09-20
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
heh...
https://www.youtube.com/c/GingerGM/... |
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Aug-13-20
 | | offramp: A very interesting game.
Simon Kim Williams, like his great predecessors Arthur Lowe and Malcolm X, is a ginger. In the UK, as an insult, the name ginger has a special pronunciation: the first G is hard (like in Golf), and the word rhymes with "singer". Ginger as a hair colour comes from the muddy-yellow root vegetable that is used to make ale and bread and prevent cramps. |
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Aug-13-20
 | | MissScarlett: Ginger ale was the choice intoxicant of Enid Blyton's <Famous Five>; the perfect complement to wash down Aunt Fanny's gooey macaroons. |
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| Aug-13-20 | | castlemindng: 33. Re5 what Happened there
https://youtu.be/YWvMnWlXmQ8 |
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| Aug-13-20 | | Brenin: For the benefit of those unfamiliar with Scottish history, "Malcolm X" in <Offramp>'s fascinating explanation of today's pun is the 10th in a sequence of Kings of Scotland, all called Malcolm, shown by the witches to Macbeth before his final battle. "What, will the line stretch out to th' crack of doom?" Like many Scots, they were noted for the distinctive colour of their hair. "And thy hair, thy other gold-bound brow, is like the first." |
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| Aug-13-20 | | Ironmanth: Ginger GM! Thanks for the game, chessgames. Y'all stay safe out there. Blessings and peace, people. |
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| Aug-13-20 | | Viking707: Didn't Williams have a better play than 39 .... Rc7. instead, Nd2 would have forked the White Q and R. |
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Aug-13-20
 | | chancho: 39...Nd2 40.Qc1. |
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Aug-13-20
| | OhioChessFan: <Viking> 39...Nd2 40. Qc1 and the threat of Qc8# makes Black play 40...Nxe4 |
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Aug-13-20
| | OhioChessFan: Whoops, 40...Rxe4. Then 41. Qxd2 and White is much better. |
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| Aug-13-20 | | Brenin: 39 ... d3 would have protected Black's N, maintained the attack on White's B, and threatened d2 (though not Nd2, which is answered with Qc1). Time pressure? |
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| Aug-13-20 | | castlemindng: I made this game into a video check it out on youtube
Some games are worth studying
Francisco Vallejo Pons vs Simon Kim Williams
"Ginger Ails"
3rd Youth Olympiad (1995) · 1-0
https://youtu.be/VxnGakH-TmQ |
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Aug-13-20
 | | eternaloptimist: <OCF> This is an interesting game, & the pun definitely fits it. Williams had a methodical idea for trying to solve the problem of the “problem ♗” in the French. Instead of playing something like ...♙b6 & ...♗a6, he played 17...♗d7, 18...♗e8 & 23...♗h5. Instead of 17...♗d7, he could’ve played 17...♙e5 & eventually moved his ♗ somewhere on the c8 -> h3 diagonal...possibly to g4 (if it would’ve been safe to do so). Then his ♗ would’ve been on the same d1 -> h5 diagonal as in the game. |
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| Aug-13-20 | | YoungEd: Not that it's a pivotal point in the game or anything, but for me 15. a3 is an interesting move. If I were white, I'd be looking (ineffectively no doubt) to continue piling toward Black's kingside. But white here takes time to slow down any queenside play from Black. There's probably a lesson there. |
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| Aug-14-20 | | Brenin: There is some good chess being played here, especially when you realise that Black was 15 years old and White was 12. Two promising youngsters. |
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Kibitzing
sac: 44.Rxd4