希特勒歸謬法

L’unica cosa bella de Milano è er treno pe Roma. Proverbio romano

挂号邮件 (Special Delivery)

妈阁庙 (A-Ma Temple), 澳門 (Macau), China

雷頓教授與惡魔之箱

Il porco vuol mangiare sporco e dormire pulito. Proverbio toscano

梦霞 (Giada)

婦女 (Women)

小静和林日淼老师妹妹。

Classroom Chinese Language

小静和林日淼老师妹妹和梦霞老师。

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傑克南瓜燈

(From an idea by Mado Flynn)

佔領華爾街

Isabella Ceccatelli
Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”

SCUOLA DI DANZA
舞蹈学校
SCACCHI CLASSICI E SCACCHI DI FISCHER
国际象棋和菲舍尔氏象棋

Any appearances to the contrary notwithstanding,
proudly
we don’t belong to any chess organization!

音程

Once in a Lifetime

Serafino Dubois – Max Killmann
Rome, March, 1858
Owen Defence B00

Daniel Willard Fiske, The Chess Monthly, Vol. III, 1859, pp. 254-255.

1. e4 b6. This opening is styled by the Italians Fianchetto di Donna, and may sometimes be adopted against players unacquainted with its general nature. But against opponents, who, like Mr. Dubois, understand how to avail themselves of the advantages which such a début places at their command, it must eventuate in giving an inferior game to the second player. Nevertheless, for the sake of variety, it may occasionally be ventured; but those who habitually employ this and other close games are generally found to be deficient in those qualities of invention and imagination which are the highest attributes of the true chessplayer. Such great players as Philidor, [de la] Bourdonnais, and M’Donnell seldom indulged in a contest of this kind. 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 e6 4. c4. At this point we prefer 4. Nh3. 4. ... Bb4+ 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. Nf3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 d6 8. 0-0 Nd7 9. Ng5 h6 10. Qh5 0-0 11. f4!?? e5? Ed. Note: The soundness of White’s hazardous sacrifice is seriously challenged by 11. ... hxg5 12. fxg5 Qe8 (Δ ... f7-f5). 12. fxe5 hxg5 13. exd6 cxd6 14. e5!? g6 15. Qh6 dxe5 16. Bxg5. Ed. Note: With the threat of 17. dxe5 Nxe5?? 18. Bf6. 16. ... e4 17. Rf4! f6. Ed. Note: Possibly better could be 17. ... f5!? (Bertola). 18. Rh4 Kf7 19. Qh7+ Ke8 20. Bxe4 Bxe4 21. Rxe4 fxg5. Ed. Note: Equally hopeless is 21. ... Rf7 22. Qg8+ Nf8 23. Bh6 followed by Ra1-e1 with an overwhelming attack. 22. Qxg6+ Rf7 23. Rf1 Nf8 24. Qxf7+ Kd7 25. Rfe1 Ng6 26. c5 Qf8 27. Qe6+ Kc7 28. Qd6+ Kb7 29. Rxe7+ Nxe7 30. Rxe7+ Ka6

31. Rxa7+! And Mr. Killmann resigns. From the moment that Mr. Dubois commences his attack he conducts it with great vigor and elegance to the end. 1 : 0. This fine unpublished game was played at Rome, in March, 1858. (Daniel Willard Fiske, The Chess Monthly, Vol. III, 1859, pp. 254-255).

超人

Il bisognino fa trottare la vecchia. Proverbio toscano

La Caféothèque

Gerolamo Tassinari – Jules Arnous de Rivière
Paris, September 3, 1853
Italian Game C53

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. c3 Nf6 5. 0-0 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4 Bb6 8. Nc3 0-0 9. h3 Ne7. Much better is 9. ... Nxe4 10. Nxe4 d5 as in the game Charousek – Exner, Budapest 1896. 10. Bg5 c6 11. e5 Ne8 12. d5 dxe5 13. Nxe5 Nd6 14. dxc6 Nxc4 15. Nxc4. A modern approach: the position is more important than the Pawns! 15. ... Qxd1 16. Raxd1 Nxc6 17. Nxb6 axb6 18. a3 Be6 19. Be3 Bc4 (19. ... Ne5 20. Nd5 Bxd5 21. Rxd5 Nc4 22. Rb5) 20. Rfe1 b5 21. Ne4 Bb3 22. Rd7 Na5 (22. ... Ne5 23. Re7) 23. Nd6 Bd5 24. Bc5 (24. Nxb5?? Bc6) 24. ... Rfb8 25. Bb6 Nc4 (25. Nxb5?? Bc6) 26. Nxc4 Bxc4 27. Ree7. Two Rooks on the seventh rank.

27. ... Ra6 28. Rxb7 Kf8 (28. ... Rxb6?? 29. Rxb6) 29. Bc5 Rxb7 30. Re6+ 1 : 0. For if 30. ... Re7 then 31. Rxa6 or 31. Rxe7.

Centre Stage

(Une idée de la sorcière Vianne Rocher)

Superomismo

Ego sum Ei fu, io sono E sull’ermo colle D’alloro cinto All’ora fatale, prode, m’appresto Il timor mi fa vile Ma più ardito l’agognato plauso E se di lui l’umana gente Ebbe a dir gran lode E sperticato elogio Che dirà di me per cotanto canto? Ei fu ed io sono Ma sol nella morte il volgo il mito incarna Io sarò! Sia pur cocendo ne lo tormento eterno. Isadora Duncan

无矛盾律 (Law of noncontradiction)

Artwork: gilad

生活就是改变。有时痛苦，有时精彩。但大多数时候，两者兼有。 Shēnghuó jiùshì gǎibiàn. Yǒushí tòngkǔ, yǒushí jīngcǎi. Dàn dà duōshù shíhòu, liǎng zhě jiān yǒu. Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time, it’s both.

A scholar and a gentleman

Albert Clerc – Gerolamo Tassinari
Paris, 1856
French Defence C01

In our last number we announced that a Tournament had been played in Paris, M. Clerc gaining the first prize, Signor Tassinari the second. We now reprint from our contemporary La Régence the deciding game of this spirited contest. Twenty-four players took part in it, the twenty-two behind the winners being M. Martin (third), MM. Acloque, Arnous de Rivière, Bornemann, Budzinski, Cerf, Coullier de Bechenec, Desjardins, Fritz, Hébert, Lafitte, Lanöe, E. Lefranc, Lequesne, Lesseure, Lustro-Lévi, Mercier, Montigny, Pasquier, Pick, and Preti.

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 Bd6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. 0-0 0-0 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Nc3 Be6. Ed. Note: More natural looks 8. ... Bg4 as in the game Solovtsov – Alapin, Saint Petersburg 1879. 9. Nb5 Be7 10. Ne5 a6 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Nc3 Qd6 13. f4 Ng4 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Qc1. It seems that White could not have advanced his Pawn to f5 without danger. 15. f5 Qh4 16. h3 Ne3 17. Qe1 Qxe1 (This appears better than 17. ... Qxd4) 18. Raxe1 (If 18. Rfxe1 Nxf5) 18. ... Nxf1 19. fxe6 Ng3 and will escape, having won the Exchange. 15. ... f5 16. h3 Nf6 17. a3 Ne4 18. Qe3 c5 19. Bxe4 cxd4

20. Nxd5. A good move both in conception and in execution. 20. ... Qc5 21. b4 Qd6 22. Qxd4 fxe4 23. c4 Rad8 24. Rad1 c6. It would have been better to have preserved “the Exchange”, and not to have recovered the Pawn. 25. Nf6+ Rxf6 26. Qxd6 Rxd6 27. Rxd6 Bxc4 28. Rxf6 gxf6 29. Rc1 Bd5 30. Kf2 Kf7 31. Ke3 f5 32. g4. And wins. 1 : 0. (Notes by The Chess Player’s Chronicle, Vol. iv, 1856, pages 129-130).

The Chess Player’s Chronicle, Vol. iv, 1856, page 189.

Chess Monthly, Volume 1, 1880, page 102.

L’Ariano

Chi all’onor suo manca un momento, non vi ripara poi in anni cento. Proverbio toscano

穿普拉达的女王

Une idée de la sorcière Vianne Rocher

假髮 (Wig)

Arianna Settembrini
Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”

DANCE SCHOOL
舞蹈学校
CLASSICAL AND FISCHERANDOM CHESS
国际象棋和菲舍尔氏象棋

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proudly
we don’t belong to any chess organisation!

Signor Bonaventura

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Notes by Johann Jacob Löwenthal

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Johann Jacob Löwenthal – Gerolamo Tassinari
London
Sicilian Defence B20

Game played at the St. George’s Chess Club, London, between Signor Tassinari and Herr Löwenthal, Secretary to the Club.

1. e4 c5 2. Bc4. Some player prefer 2. d4, because White thereby liberates his pieces quickly; but we are of opinion that 2. Bc4 is an equally good opening; since, if well followed up, it becomes very attacking. See the games in the Tournament of 1851, as played by Anderssen, who certainly conducted this opening with great ingenuity. 2. ... e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d3 Nf6. 4. ... Nge7 is the correct play. 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Nge2 0-0 7. f4 Na5. Considerable time is lost by this move. White has nothing to fear should Black capture the King’s Bishop, and thus double the Pawn. Experience has proved that White’s game is thereby much strenghtened, since it keeps back the Black’s Queen Pawn, which eventually becomes the aim of White’s attack. 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. e5 Bh4+ 10. Ng3 d5. Black very wisely declined to capture the Knight, as he would have liberated the adverse King’s Rook, which he must eventually have found disadvantageous. 11. exd6 Qxd6 12. Qg4 Bf6 13. Nce4 Qe7 14. 0-0-0 Nxc4 15. dxc4 Bd4 16. Qf3 Bd7. We should have preferred 16. ... f5. 17. c3 Bf6

18. Nh5. An ingenious variation arises from taking the Queen’s Bishop. Suppose, 18. Rxd7 Qxd7 19. Nh5 Bd8 [Or 19. ... Bh4 20. g3 f5 21. Nxc5 Qe7 (best) 22. Qe3 followed by Qe3xe6+ with a good game, having a Knight and two Pawns for the Rook. 19. ... Be7 (If 19. ... Qe7 Black loses the game immediately, as White moves 20. Qg4) 19. Qg4 and wins] 20. Rd1 Qc7 [Black’s only reply (:) 20. ... Qe7 21. Nef6+ Kh8 22. Rd7 gxf6 23. Rxe7 Bxe7 24. Qxb7 and we prefer White’s game] 21. Rxd8 Raxd8 22. Nef6+ Kh8 (It is clear that by capturing the Knight he is mated in two moves) 23. Qg4 g6 24. Qg5 Qd6 and wins. 18. ... Bc6 19. Nexf6+ Kh8 20. Qg3 g6 21. Qg5, and Black resigns. 1 : 0. (Johann Jacob Löwenthal, “The Chess Player’s Annual for the year 1856”, London, 1856, pages 28-29).

規格 (♀)

妓女也是一个老的意大利男人。
Also the whore (♀) is an old Italian man.

規格 (♂)

小偷是一个老的意大利男人。
The thief is an old Italian man (♂).

圣杯

Aspetta il porco alla quercia. Proverbio toscano

Meat chop

A vecchia che mangia pollastrelli, gli vien voglia di carne salata. Proverbio toscano

不存在的騎士

Boris Abramovich Gelfand – Baadur Jobava
FIDE Grand Prix; Tashkent, October 30, 2014
Queen’s Pawn Game A40

1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6 3. e4 Bb7 4. Bd3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2. Stronger seems 5. Kf1!, e.g. 5. ... Be7 6. Nc3 d6 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. g3 0-0 9. Kg2 Nbd7 10. Qe2 c5 11. d5 Re8 12. Rd1 Bf8 13. dxe6 fxe6 14. Bc2 a6 15. Bf4 Qc7 16. Rd2 Ne5 17. Rad1 Bc6 18. Bxe5 dxe5 19. Ba4 Bxa4 20. Nxa4 b5 21. cxb5 axb5 22. Qxb5 c4 23. Rc2 Rec8 24. b3 Qb8 25. Qxb8 Raxb8 26. bxc4 Nxe4 27. Nxe5 Rb4 28. Nb2 Nc5 29. f4 Be7 30. Nbd3 Ra4 31. Nxc5 Rxc5 32. Rb1 Rc8 33. c5 g5 34. c6 Bd6 35. Nd7 gxf4 36. Nb6 f3+ 37. Kf2 1 : 0 So – Gelfand, ACP Golden Classic, Bergamo 2014. 5. ... Bxd2+ 6. Nxd2 d6 7. f4. For 7. Ne2 c5 8. d5 e5 see Bunzmann – Oral, Budapest 1998. 7. ... Nd7 8. Qg4. Gelfand is playing with fire... Jobava felt that 8. Ngf3 Ne7 9. 0-0 0-0 10. Qe1 was stronger. “White has some attacking chances. You always must look for d4-d5, e4-e5 or f4-f5”. 8. ... Ngf6 9. Qxg7 Rg8 10. Qh6 Rxg2 11. Ngf3 Qe7 12. Qh3 Rg7 13. 0-0-0 Ng4 14. Qg3. On 14. Rdf1 0-0-0 “and I have time for ... Rd8-g8 with a playable position”, Jobava said. 14. ... Ndf6 15. Ng5. A compromising move. Worth considering was 15. Rdg1!? Nh5 16. Qe1 Nxf4 17. Bc2 with a vague compensation. 15. ... h6 16. Nh3 0-0-0 17. Rde1. Jobava then suggested 17. Qe1 – it is easy to agree! 17. ... Nh5 18. Qf3 Qh4 19. Re2. If 19. Qf1 then 19. ... Nxf4! 20. Nxf4 Nf2 (Jobava’s analysis). 19. ... Kb8 20. Bc2. A little better – but not so much – was 20. Qf1 f5 21. Nf3 Qxh3!? (Jobava) 22. Qxh3 Nxf4 23. Qh4 Rdg8 etc. 20. ... f5. “Now it’s not so easy to play because the center is collapsing”, Jobava said. 21. Qf1 Nhf6. Equally strong was 21. ... d5(!). 22. Nf3 Qh5 23. exf5 exf5 24. d5 Re8! “I’m trading one of the most active pieces”, Jobava said. 25. Rxe8+ Qxe8 26. Qd3 Re7 27. Rf1 Ne3 28. Rf2 Ba6 29. Bb3 Nexd5 30. Qxf5

30. ... Bxc4! 0 : 1. For if 31. Bxc4 then 31. ... Re1+ 32. Nxe1 Qxe1+ 33. Kc2 Ne3+ winning the Queen. If, instead, 31. Rd2 then 31. ... Bxb3 32. axb3 Re1+ 33. Nxe1 Qxe1+ 34. Rd1 Qxd1+ 35. Kxd1 Ne3+ and Black ends up with two Knights against one.