Hello and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Good Year.
Last post was my Christmas Quiz. Looks like most of you enjoyed it.
I am going to show you a puzzle that did not make it because I know
a lot of my audience (that is you the readers) are mostly home and
casual players and I thought it may be a bit too difficult. It is hard.
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by greenpawn34 on Dec 05 2019 10:54 | 17123 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Dec 06 2019 09:20
Hello, Merry Christmas etc...etc... some of the answers are right below the questions`.
Those that require a more detailed answer are in the 'Answers' section at the bottom.
(1) One condition in Santa’s contract was not only to deliver toys to every corner
of the globe but to also take out ‘The Grinch.’ This is known as Santa’s clause.
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by greenpawn34 on Nov 17 2019 14:14 | 10132 views | 5 edits | Last edit on Nov 27 2019 13:20
This is all the fault of the Chess Historian Edward Winter.
Nobody knows what Edward Winter looks like...this will do.
Ages ago his site hinted that when Morphy played his famous game at the opera in Paris
1858 the opera being performed may have been Norma by Bellini. So I went and bought it...
by greenpawn34 on Nov 11 2019 09:38 | 5621 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Nov 12 2019 19:34
A King being chased across the 64 squares with a player shooting at it’s
feet still, after all these years, brings out in me a primitive joy of chess.
So when recently a Grandmaster sent another Grandmaster’s King for a walk I just
had to share it with you lot and use it as an excuse to show some of your King Hunts.
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I’d lost my g1 Knight, but it had been on holiday and has just come back.
In the recent World Cup one of the rapid tie-break games between Teimour Radjabov
and Ding Liren, the Chinese player set a wee trap before resigning. In GM parlance this
is known as a joke move, but it would have been no joke if Radjabov had fallen for it...
Sadly another great player and personality has passed away. Pal Benko.
Mention the name and three things come to mind, the opening that bears
his name, his role in Fischer getting to the 1972 World final v Spassky
and his problem page that ran for many years in Chess Life and Review...
greenpawn34
on Jan 10 2020 19:12 | 9657 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jan 12 2020 10:21
