malthaussen
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12/4/2015
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Sometimes I think FBG reads my mind. The Fried Liver Attack has always been my favorite chess opening, and the game where Paul Morphy checkmates his dad with it by castling has always been my favorite game. So what do my wondering eyes perceive when playing a certain Deviless? "She chanced the Fried Liver Attack, but you countered..." How did they know?
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
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Rupho Schartenhauer
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12/5/2015
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Knowing nothing about chess, I thought the Fried Liver Attack another hilarious Failbetter invention...
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Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
12/5/2015
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The defense is fictional, from Nabokov's novel The Luzhin Defense, but the attack has a long history in chess.
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Pyrodinium
Posts: 639
12/5/2015
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Mal, the attack sounds like some sort of martial arts move from a culinary expert... Anyways, are there are other interestingly named moves in chess?
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
12/5/2015
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Why is it called the Fried Liver Attack?
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Snotra
Posts: 67
12/5/2015
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Come at me with fried liver and you'll get bacon and onion gravy for your troubles! And no leaving the table until you've finished your cabbage, either.
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
12/5/2015
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Sorry Snotra, but that really sounds awful :P
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
12/5/2015
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@Kukapetal: for an Italian idiom that means "Dead as a piece of liver." It is a slashing sacrifice variation of the Two Knight's Defense.
@Pyrodium: I'm sure there are, but that is the one that always sticks in my head.
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Snotra
Posts: 67
12/5/2015
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It was, Kukapetal, but as my good 'old Dad used to say "It'll put hairs on your chest like barbed wire"! He never understood daughters...
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
12/5/2015
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@malthaussen: Thanks! I assume the "dead" part refers to your opponent and not you for being stupidly reckless or something
@Snotra: kudos for a hilarious retort. My laughing started the cat :P
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
12/5/2015
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@Kukapetal: well, it is fairly easy to counter, so if the sacrifice doesn't work, then White is left with a material disadvantage, but if Black doesn't respond correctly, he is in for a painful game.
@Snotra: but what if I come at you with... a banana!
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Snotra
Posts: 67
12/5/2015
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Then there shall be hokey pokey ice-cream all round, Mal.
https://www.tiptop.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TT_HokeyPokeyResized.png
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
12/5/2015
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A few chess openings:
The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game
The Grob
The Sicilian Dragon
The Richter-Rauzer
The Najdorf Poison Pawn
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vitamancy
Posts: 43
12/5/2015
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Don't forget "The Hedgehog" and "The Orangutan".
There's also something called the "London System", so maybe there should be a "Fallen London System" -- might be appropriate for a game where the queen sacrifices all her other pieces just so the king lives.
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
12/5/2015
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vitamancy wrote:
Don't forget "The Hedgehog" and "The Orangutan".
There's also something called the "London System", so maybe there should be a "Fallen London System" -- might be appropriate for a game where the queen sacrifices all her other pieces just so the king lives.
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Yes!! The Fallen London System!
And let's not forget Von Goom's Gambit.
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Rupho Schartenhauer
Posts: 787
12/5/2015
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Lady Sapho Byron wrote:
The Najdorf Poison Pawn
OK, that really sounds like something from Fallen London!
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Rupho Schartenhauer has killed a Master, well: most of it.
Cortez the Killer has killed a Master, definitely.
Deepdelver has become the progenitor of London's brightest star. It's... complicated.
Dr. Kvirkvelia, gone NORTH on 23/12/1894.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
Posts: 360
12/5/2015
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With chess I can often find myself out of my depth, so sometime my chances are a bit forlorn. But I can always hope for a lucky Fluke.
- You are an inspiration punmistress Snotra 
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ganjalf91
Posts: 87
12/7/2015
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malthaussen wrote:
@Kukapetal: for an Italian idiom that means "Dead as a piece of liver." It is a slashing sacrifice variation of the Two Knight's Defense.
I am italian, and i've never heard that in my whole life :'D
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
12/7/2015
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@ganjalf91: take it up with Wikipedia, who make the claim. It may be an obsolete idiom, it may be a figment of their imaginations. The word in question is "fegatello."
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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