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Anna Kubicka vs Sundar M Shyam
"Anna and the King of Shyam" (game of the day Jan-18-2020)
Najdorf Memorial Open-A (2019), Warsaw POL, rd 1, Jul-06
Sicilian, Taimanov Variation (B48)  ·  0-1

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Jan-02-20
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  OhioChessFan: "Anna and the King of Shyam"
Jan-02-20
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  saffuna: <"Anna and the King of Shyam">

Outstanding!

Jan-18-20  andrewjsacks: Excellent pun.
Jan-18-20  Cheapo by the Dozen: Outstanding pun! All the more because Black's king had an interesting role.
Jan-18-20  areknames: <Outstanding pun! All the more because Black's king had an interesting role.> Not too sure about that, considering that when Black's king makes its first move White is already clearly losing. However the pun is obviously pretty good. The game is rather pedestrian though, White castling long and then volunteering to open lines against her own king by 10.Nxc6 looks very wrong to me.
Jan-18-20  faulty: a nice pun, but a perfectly hopeless game
Jan-18-20  thegoldenband: Oh, the game's not so bad (and the pun is charming).

If nothing else, the knight offer on f2 is cute, since Black has a lethal mating attack after 18. Qxf2 Qc3! or 19. Qxf2 Rxb2+ 20. Bxb2 Qb8 21. Nxg7+ Kd8 when White is getting annihilated.

Jan-18-20
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  scormus: As a GOTD, I have to say it was ..... saved by the pun. Kudos <OCF>!
Jan-18-20  laskereshevsky: Good pun
Even, the player Sundar M Shyan could be write S.M. Shyan and in same not Anglo-Saxons countries S.M. mean exaclty like the H.M. Her/His Majesty :))
Jan-18-20
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  HeMateMe: I like the pun. What's Yul Brenner doing these days? In the 70s men with shaved heads started to be seen as studly (if they also had a good face and body). Kojak (Telly Savalas), Issac Hayes, Mr. T (sort of…). It became ok to be bald, you could still get laid.
Jan-18-20
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  perfidious: <HMM>, Yul Brynner passed on in 1985.
Jan-18-20
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  HeMateMe: hmm...no wonder he hasn't shown up on dancing with the stars.
Jan-18-20  Count Wedgemore: Best pun of 2020 so far. Well done, <OCF>!
Jan-19-20
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  perfidious: <HMM>, he had one helluva nerve not turning up like that.

Agree with other posters--an excellent pun indeed.

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