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Antanas Zapolskis vs Gwilym Price
"The Price is Wrong" (game of the day Mar-14-2023)
Chessable British Championship (2022), Torquay ENG, rd 8, Aug-20
Sicilian Defense: Four Knights. Cobra Variation (B45)  ·  1-0

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Aug-22-22
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  Sally Simpson: This game won the best game of the British. A very good game and it had to be as there were quite a few other candidates.
Mar-10-23
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  FSR: The Price is Wrong.
Mar-14-23
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  FSR: My 203rd pun that chessgames has used! And on Pi Day, no less!
Mar-14-23  Jegar Sahadutha: Wherefore dost thou repose on so glorious a night? 'tis the night gallant Gawain slew the teeming serpents of Stafford. Hast thou forgotten already?
Mar-14-23
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  FSR: <Jegar Sahadutha: . . . 'tis the night gallant Gawain slew the teeming serpents of Stafford.>

I assume you're referring to the Stafford Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Nc6). The only Gawain in the database is Gawain Jones. Repertoire Explorer: Gawain Jones (white) doesn't show that he's ever faced the teeming serpents of Stafford. Alas, you won't find that opening in his <Coffeehouse Repertoire> book, since he recommends 3.d4 against the Petroff.

Mar-14-23  Jegar Sahadutha: Would that thine eyes be opened, and that thou seest the mysteries of the abyss.
Mar-14-23  Jegar Sahadutha: "Wrong!" they cry, merchants of enmity. Can one truly be wrong, when all his organs tell him right. For aught we know, wrong is but the maiden of capricious men, many indignant soothsayers amongst them. Shalt thou in tranquil mind proffer what may not be truth?
Mar-14-23  Cheapo by the Dozen: Was Chris Owen ever this poetic?
Mar-14-23  goodevans: <FSR: My 203rd pun that chessgames has used...>

Maybe not your best but the game was good, so thanks. A fabulous attack by White. I wonder how much he saw when he sac'd the B and how much was just intuition.

I wasn't sure where the game was going until Black's 24...b5. With this he surely had to be encouraging the B-sac in the belief it was unsound. That would explain 23...Bd8 rather than the more natural 23...Be7 - he was actually inviting 26.Rd7+ (I can't believe a player of his strength would have missed this).

Since other moves are clearly too dangerous he must have thought 26...Kh6 would give his K safe haven there even though it's trapped on the h-file and threatened with a discovered check. Price was wrong.

Mar-14-23
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  offramp: User: Jegar Sahadutha gets his kibitzes from https://bibleversegenerator.com/ .
They are very funny!
Mar-14-23  Arlekhino: White to play 25. ? would make a nice weekend puzzle. Or maybe 28. ? for a Thursday or a Friday.
Mar-15-23  ajile: please take my rook.
Jun-30-24  whiteshark: how to take effective action against uncoordination

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