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| Posted by zdrak uskidscompute.com 2/27/2003 11:37:48 play online chess |  Subject: OTB game #5Message: Yet another game from our regional league, hot from the press! This time due to lack of time the game will be given w/o comments ... ok, one comment ... a good one ... White: Y. Urodin (2062) Black: Yours Truly (1961) 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. d3 g6 4. Nf3 d6 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 Nc6 7. O-O O-O 8. Bd2 h6 9. h3 Be6 10. a3 a5 11. Rb1 Qd7 12. Kh2 Ne7 13. b4 axb4 14. axb4 Kh7 15. Qc2 Nh5 16. Ng1 c6 17. b5 f5 18. bxc6 bxc6 19. Rb6 Qc7 20. Rfb1 Rfb8 21. Qb2 Rxb6 22. Qxb6 Qxb6 23. Rxb6 Bd7 24. Rb7 Nf6 As he was thinking about his 25th move, a sudden disaster occured to me: I started thinking. No, not about the game - I started thinking about my opponent. To be more exact, about my opponent's name. And then it hit me! "OH MY GOD!!" - I thought to myself - "If his name is Urodin, his wife's name must be ... OH MY GOD!! Poor woman ..." By the way, if you didn't get any of this, it's probably because you don't know Russian. Seek the advice of a Russian-speaking person to explain. Obviosly, after such a mind-blowing thought, I could not concentrate on the game anymore at all! All I had in my head was "Poor woman!". Lucky for me, the game didn't last too long! 25. f4 Nc8 26. fxe5 dxe5 27. Nf3 Nd6 1/2 - 1/2 I offered a draw and he accepted. I was quite happy to draw with black, against a strong player, especially given my mental state ... I escaped the table as soon as possible, without a post-mortem, and without waiting for my teammates to finish their games. |
| Posted by tovmauzer uskidscompute.com 2/27/2003 12:18:58 play online chess | Zdrak Message: That was funny:)) |
| Posted by t0ned0g uskidscompute.com 2/27/2003 17:39:01 play online chess | hmmmm.... Message: Anyone want to explain this for us American folk? |
| Posted by kingbuster uskidscompute.com 2/28/2003 03:16:28 play online chess | yeah Message: russian-speakers are also hard to come by where I live (australia). I'd love to know what it means though! :) |
| Posted by loreta uskidscompute.com 2/28/2003 04:14:09 play online chess | Nicks Message: Urodin - then wife's name Urodina That means 'very ugly woman' |
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