scutigera Member since Mar-22-09 · Last seen May-16-25 Total patzer who reads more than he plays.

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Dec-11-24 NN vs M Wahlund, 2007    scutigera: "A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror." -World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz I'd rather enjoy games like this than be world champ - and lucky me, I've gotten my wish.      Jul-17-24 A Hunt vs Y Hou, 2012    scutigera: A pun on one of the player's names, with no other connection to the game's content at all, is pretty lame, palindrome or not. Even "Hunt Becomes The Hunted" would be better.      Jun-30-24 Ljubojevic vs Portisch, 2012   scutigera: The final position is a pretty display of the "domination" theme in actual play.      Jun-02-24 Prochazka vs Kozacek, 1991    scutigera: Losing in eight moves is humiliating enough, but in a correspondence game? Maybe he thought "correspondence" included thumbing out your moves on a two-way pager on a subway during rush hour without sight of the board.      Apr-20-24 J Tarjan vs D J Strauss, 1978    scutigera: <playground player>: Doubtless it's occurred to people, but the lack of obvious follow-up deters many ("Me Tarjan, You Jay-Strauss"?), and I like to think that some won't do it because a pun that does nothing but make fun of one of the players' names is beneath them. In this      Apr-01-24 P H Coldwell vs Marshall, 1907    scutigera: "Caldwell" looks like a "close variant" of Coldwell, and "o" and "a" are easy letters to confuse in printed sources, not all of which are perfectly edited or typeset.      Mar-20-24 Bogoljubov vs Capablanca, 1928    scutigera: <keypusher>: Look again! The opening of Kasparov vs Adams, 1988 has been retconned into “Kasparov-Petrosian. Andersson Variation.” and plain ol’ “Andersson Variation” has gone the way of neuroweirditis.      Feb-22-24 E Gasanov vs V Shtyrenkov, 2001    scutigera: My choice was 48..Nxc3, which Stockfish likes just fine: 49 Rc2? Rb1# of course, but 49 Kxa1 is mate in 12 and 49 Rxe5 is mate in 11. The game move is simplest, though.      Oct-22-23 A Belezky vs G Phillips, 2005    scutigera: <HeMateMe: Who is Sasha?> Not exactly a short form, but Sasha is the traditional nickname for those two names in Russian and some related languages, much like "Dick" or "Dickie" for "Richard" in English, without the unwanted connotations.      Oct-01-23 K I Norman vs S Conquest, 1994   scutigera: In this case, Norman Conquered.      Sep-24-23 C Carls vs H Johner, 1927     Jul-16-23 Oll vs M Ulybin, 1989     Jul-14-23 Kholmov vs Bronstein, 1965     Jul-14-23 G Wainwright vs T Germann, 1914    Jul-09-23 Nakamura vs Ding Liren, 2020    Jul-09-23 K Rogoff vs Adorjan, 1972    Jun-09-23 V Beznosikov vs I Koba, 1995     Apr-19-23 Nepomniachtchi - Ding World Championship Match (2023)     Mar-06-23 L Rellstab vs Alekhine, 1942     Feb-20-23 Abdusattorov vs A Esipenko, 2023     Feb-19-23 Lasker / Maroczy vs NN, 1900     Jan-31-23 Shirov vs A Vitolinsh, 1985    Nov-16-22 V Antonov vs C Kamp, 1989     Nov-11-22 M El Adnani vs Ganguly, 2021    Oct-25-22 Tal vs M Wahls, 1990    Sep-27-22 P K Wells vs S Ernst, 2005    Sep-21-22 V Buturin vs I Vainerman, 1986    Sep-08-22 Sinquefield Cup (2022)     Aug-07-22 E Hintikka vs T Pirttimaki, 1988     Jul-08-22 Igor Tokuichi Kikuchi Cadilhac    Apr-18-22 Louis Stumpers     Apr-11-22 Lindemann    Apr-07-22 Minh Hoang Le vs D Saduakassova, 2017    Apr-04-22 E Ubiennykh vs O Girya, 2012     Apr-02-22 M Weiss vs A Schwarz, 1882     Mar-31-22 Fischer vs J Rubens, 1964     Mar-28-22 W H Pratten vs W G Perrin, 1923     Mar-21-22 Jakovenko vs A Smirnov, 2011    Mar-15-22 R G Hegde vs G B Prakash, 1999    Jan-23-22 P Hulshof vs L'Ami, 2003     Jan-10-22 B Assaubayeva vs S Salim Mohammed, 2018    Jan-10-22 Y Hou vs Short, 2008    Jan-10-22 L Piasetski vs S Lomasov, 2018    Dec-20-21 Staunton - Morphy (1858)     Dec-20-21 F G Rowe vs W G Ward, 1876     Dec-15-21 Lasker vs Janowski, 1895     Dec-15-21 Kotov vs N Povah, 1976     Dec-14-21 I Sokolov vs Kasparov, 1999     Dec-14-21 A S Sergeev vs V Sozin, 1924     Dec-07-21 Nepomniachtchi vs Carlsen, 2021     Dec-07-21 Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi, 2021     Nov-29-21 A Saidy vs J Becerra Rivero, 2005    Oct-30-21 Unzicker vs Taimanov, 1952     Oct-30-21 Taimanov vs Petrosian, 1953    Oct-25-21 Chigorin vs Tarrasch, 1893     Oct-11-21 Ponomariov vs Topalov, 2005     Jul-29-21 Teichmann vs Spielmann, 1909     Jul-27-21 J Polgar vs Anand, 1999    Jul-11-21 Capablanca vs H E Chambers, 1912     Jul-10-21 Valeri Lilov     Jul-06-21 Furman vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1954     Jul-02-21 Alekhine / Koltanowski vs Antwerp, 1934     Jun-28-21 Kosteniuk vs C Foisor, 2012     Jun-27-21 NN vs G Derrickson, 1860     Jun-19-21 Kmoch vs L Prins, 1940     Jun-17-21 W Ju vs C Yip, 2020     May-31-21 Alekhine vs M Scholtz, 1932     May-11-21 Keres vs Geller, 1962     Mar-22-21 Pelletier vs C S Matamoros Franco, 2012     Mar-09-21 M Delage vs S Prokofiev, 1937     Mar-07-21 Svidler vs Topalov, 2004     Mar-02-21 Z Xiang vs Yibo Zhou, 2019     Feb-14-21 Alekhine vs C Cardenas, 1929     Feb-14-21 Smbat Lputian     Feb-02-21 E Perelshteyn vs E Berg, 2003    Jan-18-21 A Jerez Perez vs A Romero Holmes, 2001     Jan-17-21 S Ionov vs A Yashtylov, 2000     Jan-12-21 Korchnoi vs Fischer, 1962     Jan-12-21 Fischer vs Benko, 1962     Jan-12-21 Tal vs Korchnoi, 1962     Jan-05-21 Ragozin vs Kotov, 1945    Jan-02-21 A Mikhalchishin vs Romanishin, 1981     Jan-02-21 Benjamin vs Gufeld, 1998     Dec-01-20 G Koshnitsky vs Hewitt, 1945     Nov-28-20 Fischer vs R Burger, 1964     Nov-23-20 P Maghsoodloo vs Carlsen, 2020     Nov-16-20 B Modr vs V Benes, 1981     Nov-13-20 H T Jacobsen vs H Ragnarsson, 2017     Nov-13-20 J Murey vs A Nikitin, 1971     Nov-12-20 P Dahms vs A Nickel, 1988     Nov-12-20 A Nickel vs P Dahms, 1989     Nov-07-20 Yagupov vs A Rustemov, 1995     Nov-06-20 Vladimir Kramnik     Oct-24-20 Kamsky vs Kramnik, 1994     Oct-14-20 D Djakova vs P J Draganova, 2001     Oct-10-20 Tartakower vs Fine, 1937     Oct-06-20 Hanielle Ntsame Nguema Sajoux    Oct-06-20 Asha Kondo vs H Ntsame, 2018    Oct-05-20 I Bilek vs Tal, 1967    Oct-02-20 Spielmann vs M Walter, 1928     Oct-02-20 Rubinstein vs Spielmann, 1912     Oct-02-20 Karpov vs Spassky, 1975     Sep-29-20 W Arencibia Rodriguez vs Z Franco Ocampos, 1990     Sep-20-20 Fine vs G Page, 1933    Sep-18-20 D Dvirnyy vs Shirov, 2020     Sep-01-20 Gulko vs Alburt, 1975     Aug-24-20 E Barbosa vs A Chiari, 2012    Aug-11-20 H D Smith vs O Michaelis, 1869    Jul-26-20 Dvoirys vs G Timoscenko, 1988     Jul-19-20 S Kagan vs E Torre, 1972     May-15-20 V Hruby vs Paulsen, 1882     Apr-20-20 A Kveinys vs Speelman, 2002    Mar-13-20 A Teller vs Reti, 1926     Mar-09-20 I Birbrager vs Tal, 1953     Mar-09-20 Tal vs G Ilivitsky, 1953     Mar-09-20 A Novikova vs O Lelekova, 2019    Mar-02-20 Z Sturua vs V N Kozlov, 1975     Nov-10-19 K Spraggett vs G Glen, 1975    Oct-19-19 C McNab vs M Karttunen, 2006    Oct-19-19 D A Yeager vs A Stripunsky, 2008     Oct-07-19 Tal vs P Mejic, 1974     Sep-17-19 McShane vs D Yuffa, 2019     Sep-03-19 Ganguly vs A Smith, 2019     Jul-04-19 Shirov vs J Lapinski, 1990     Jun-20-19 M Matlakov vs Eljanov, 2013     May-30-19 Ponomariov vs Gelfand, 2008     May-21-19 Alberto Baca vs I Kanko, 1966     Mar-03-19 V Ciocaltea vs C Radovici, 1968     Feb-04-19 V Colin vs I Hera, 2018    Jan-06-19 Reti vs Vidmar, 1926    Dec-04-18 Windhorst vs K Shoup, 1985     Dec-03-18 W Pollock vs S Langleben / F Colson, 1893     Nov-29-18 Caruana vs Carlsen, 2018     Oct-28-18 Speelman vs Larsen, 1978     Oct-25-18 A Makarov vs T Heinrich, 1998     Oct-15-18 A Karayev vs A J Datu, 2008     Aug-05-18 I Stohl vs R Kuczynski, 1993     Jul-09-18 Englisch vs J Bauer, 1890     Jun-24-18 Rozentalis vs Y Dokhoian, 1986     Jun-21-18 Svidler vs Grischuk, 2013     Apr-02-18 A Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson, 1927     Jan-09-18 V Vorotnikov vs I Ivanov, 1977     Jan-08-18 L Cooper vs I Ivanov, 1987     Jan-02-18 H Norman-Hansen vs Tartakower, 1923     Dec-26-17 A Volokitin vs Ding Liren, 2017     Nov-26-17 E Kossak vs Dufresne, 1851     Nov-05-17 Botvinnik vs Vidmar, 1946     Oct-02-17 V Babula Sr vs Giri, 2015    Jul-02-17 Wei Yi vs Navara, 2016     Jun-20-17 W Lewis vs NN, 1820     Jun-10-17 Suruchee Thing     Jun-06-17 Morphy vs Le Carpentier, 1849     May-28-17 V Matchabelli vs A Dadian, 1880    May-28-17 Vasili Matchabelli     Apr-22-17 Polugaevsky vs Lutikov, 1969     Apr-16-17 A Anastasian vs A Duman, 2003     Apr-12-17 J F Campbell vs A Ehrlich, 1990     Mar-27-17 Morozevich vs P Kiriakov, 1992     Mar-14-17 V Laznicka vs Sveshnikov, 2017     Mar-14-17 Fedorchuk vs I Sokolov, 2009     Feb-21-17 Kosteniuk vs S Ni, 2017     Feb-13-17 O Zimina vs S Barth Stanford, 2013     Feb-01-17 Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960     Jan-13-17 Mamedyarov vs K Shanava, 2012     Jan-04-17 Seirawan vs A Beliavsky, 1988     Dec-16-16 R Nezhmetdinov vs Suetin, 1947     Dec-01-16 Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016)     Nov-29-16 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016     Nov-21-16 Tkachiev vs J Emms, 1996     Oct-28-16 Carlsen vs Nakamura, 2016     Oct-24-16 A Dadian vs Kolisch, 1867     Jun-28-16 E Steiner vs D Przepiorka, 1924    Apr-11-16 Greco vs NN, 1620     Jan-22-16 R H Steinmeyer vs N Bernstein, 1944     Jan-14-16 Capablanca vs E G Sergeant, 1929     Dec-28-15 R Nuber vs R Keckeisen, 1994     Dec-27-15 H Hecht vs Spassky, 1973     Dec-09-15 A Aasum vs L Frenzel, 1989     Dec-01-15 E Bang vs J Sloth, 1996    Nov-15-15 E Soares vs A Gallego Alcaraz, 2009     Nov-07-15 Saemisch vs A Nimzowitsch, 1923     Nov-06-15 Wei Yi vs Karjakin, 2015    Oct-20-15 Vaganian vs A Planinc, 1975     Oct-06-15 The World vs Kosteniuk, 2004    Sep-21-15 Brashinsky vs D Papadopulos, 1982     Sep-12-15 Khismatullin vs S Sjugirov, 2009     Aug-24-15 Carlsen vs Topalov, 2015     Aug-03-15 N Paikidze vs V Gunina, 2010     Aug-03-15 Gossip vs C Fisher, 1885     Jun-15-15 A Fominyh vs Yurtaev, 1995    May-06-15 O Moiseev vs Savon, 1970     Apr-24-15 Alekhine vs Gladstone, 1938     Feb-09-15 A Kuebler vs H Larsen, 1984     Feb-09-15 A Kuebler vs R Thiel, 1984     Jan-27-15 F Reinfeld vs S L Thompson, 1927    Jan-18-15 G Mohr vs Anand, 1988     Jan-13-15 Spassky vs Larsen, 1968     Jan-06-15 0     Nov-24-14 H Pohlenz vs M Pinel, 1994     Nov-04-14 H Stefansson vs J Rukavina, 2010     Sep-07-14 Huebner vs Korchnoi, 1980     Aug-13-14 N Kremer vs N Zhukova, 2014     Aug-13-14 J Chabanon vs G Kodentsov, 2009    Aug-11-14 R Franz vs C Mayet, 1858     Jul-31-14 J Polgar vs A S Rasmussen, 2013     Jul-27-14 F A Hoffmann vs A Petrov, 1844     Jul-18-14 O M Hindle vs Tal, 1963     Jul-15-14 Benko vs Suttles, 1964     Jul-08-14 N Pogonina vs N Zhukova, 2014     Jul-03-14 Spirit of Adventure vs Donald Duck, 1959     Jul-03-14 Pachman vs C Guimard, 1955     Jun-13-14 M Diskerud vs Carlsen, 2013     Jun-08-14 Miles vs Z Sturua, 1993     Jun-01-14 Tal vs Spassky, 1965     May-24-14 R S Kalugampitiya vs Ding Liren, 2014     May-12-14 Lilienthal vs A Khavin, 1944     Apr-21-14 S B Hansen vs M Richter, 2011     Apr-21-14 C van de Loo vs M Hesseling, 1983     Mar-25-14 Kramnik vs Svidler, 2014     Mar-19-14 Aronian vs Gelfand, 2011     Jan-23-14 A Blackmar vs L S Atkinson, 1884     Jan-20-14 R Chalker vs M Paragua, 1999    Dec-16-13 V Muratov vs M Makarov, 1981     Nov-21-13 Kostic vs Gruenfeld, 1922     Oct-26-13 R Nezhmetdinov vs V Zagorovsky, 1963     Oct-24-13 Harrwitz vs Morphy, 1858    Sep-23-13 R Haring vs A Kushnir, 1976     Sep-21-13 Janowski vs Tarrasch, 1905     Sep-21-13 O Bernstein vs Najdorf, 1954     Sep-18-13 R Swinkels vs L E Johannessen, 2011     Sep-18-13 Koltanowski vs NN, 1946     Sep-16-13 H Reefschlaeger vs C Astengo, 2008     Sep-14-13 Shamkovich vs F Visier Segovia, 1966     Sep-09-13 T Klop vs D Kolodkin, 2013     Sep-07-13 N Totton vs Keene, 1960    Aug-31-13 Botvinnik vs Tartakower, 1936     Aug-18-13 D Martinez vs C F Burille, 1889     Aug-18-13 E Delmar vs Chigorin, 1889    Aug-04-13 Gossip vs Chigorin, 1889     Aug-04-13 Chigorin vs Mason, 1889     Jul-11-13 Bird vs D Martinez, 1889    Jun-22-13 Lasker vs M A Gelly, 1910     May-21-13 Korchnoi vs I Krush, 2007     May-15-13 K Seegert vs M Matthiesen, 2009     Apr-29-13 Spassky vs Fischer, 1972     Apr-09-13 M Sisniega vs A Groszpeter, 1977     Mar-29-13 B Badea vs I Chirila, 2008     Mar-19-13 A Smitten vs A Dadian, 1896     Mar-19-13 Capablanca vs Janowski, 1924     Mar-17-13 Vachier-Lagrave vs Caruana, 2010    Mar-12-13 Schlechter vs Maroczy, 1907    Feb-25-13 Miller     Jan-21-13 E Nebermann vs Silbermann, 1902     Jan-07-13 H Ree vs V Ciocaltea, 1968    Oct-13-12 D H Campora vs Morozevich, 1994     Jun-05-12 Bird vs Steinitz, 1868     Apr-13-12 Reti vs Lasker, 1908     Apr-03-12 S Loyd vs C C Moore, 1853     Mar-25-12 Kupchik vs Janowski, 1923     Mar-19-12 L Hazai vs L Karsa, 1976     Jun-07-11 F Lambert vs H Howe, 1875     May-23-11 A Bisguier vs A Matanovic, 1961     Mar-21-11 M Callinan vs J Hempel, 1970    Mar-19-11 Speelman vs H Ree, 1978     Mar-07-11 G Moore vs R Eames, 2001     Feb-13-11 P Klein vs Myagmarsuren, 1960     Jan-05-11 J Schlesinger vs Falkbeer, 1851     Jan-04-11 Kasparov vs Anand, 1991     Jan-02-11 Gufeld vs Tal, 1959     Dec-21-10 J Matschego vs Falkbeer, 1853     Nov-07-10 V Mikenas vs Flohr, 1938    Nov-07-10 Alekhine vs C de Montmartre, 1925     Nov-04-10 Reshevsky vs R Salgado, 1988    Oct-10-10 Karpov vs E Boucher, 1998    Jul-14-10 Capablanca vs Milner-Barry, 1935     May-29-10 Smyslov vs Botvinnik, 1954     May-02-10 M Basman vs Keene, 1981     Mar-23-09 S Tatai vs Korchnoi, 1978

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