In 2017, Spanish news outlet ElPais.com posted a piece called "La jugada mágica de Bogolyúbov" or "The magical play of Bogoljubov." The article recalled a chess match between grandmasters Ludwig Rellstab and Efim Bogoljubov in 1940. In the video attached to the article, Leontxo García, the host of a video series on chess for El Pais, used a chessboard diagram to re-enact the match. At one point in the video, García described a particular move by Bogoljubov as "maravillosa" or "outstanding". Pretty soon, people started using the screenshot of that particular moment as a meme.
The reaction image is often posted to express a genuine or, in some cases, sarcastic response to a well-executed (or poorly executed) plan. The phrase is usually quoted as a caption in an image featuring a man gesturing towards a chessboard diagram. And some of them are as outstanding as Bogoljubov's move!
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As for the perpetrators who inspired the original video in the first place, Bogoljubov and Rellstab faced off 14 times playing classical chess, and Bogoljubov won 7 to 1, with 6 draws.
Sam Copeland, National Master and Director of Content for Chess.com, told Bored Panda that he really enjoyed not only the 'outstanding move', but the entire game García had analyzed."[It's] a gorgeous 'miniature' (a game of fewer than 25 moves, rare among masters) which shows some very attractive ideas from White to force the early victory."
Copeland also provided us with very interesting details surrounding the game. "Interestingly, it was organized by the Nazis in occupied Poland. The white player, Efim Bogoljubov, a two-time world championship challenger, was actually born in Kiev but lived in Germany after he was interred there during WWI. This happened because he was playing the Mannheim 1914 tournament when war was declared between Germany and Russia, and he was not allowed to leave Germany thereafter," he explained.
"The star move is 16.Bg6!!", he said, highlighting that chess players add two exclamation marks to indicate a brilliant move. "It is striking because White offers three sacrifices: the bishop may be captured by two black pawns (either capture allows Nxd6+ as in the game) and the knight on c4 may be captured (when White has the excellent move Rxe6+!). Sacrifices in chess are always attractive, but sacrifices on an 'empty square' such as g6 are considered particularly striking because you are offering up your pieces without immediately gaining anything in return."
Candidate Master (CM) James Coleman from England also agreed to take a look at it, saying that his impression is "Black played a risky opening that didn't pay off and never fully equalized the game. Black probably should have tried 10...d6 to stop White from playing e4-e5, although White would have retained the advantage in any case. This was definitely one key moment."
As for 16.Bg6, the 'outstanding move', Coleman described it as "beautifully aesthetic".
"[White put the piece] on a square where it could've been captured two different ways, but neither capture solved Black's problems. It's the sort of move that can be quite hard to see as the brain often filters such moves out as they are counter-intuitive in appearance."
"Realistically though, the game was just a typical example of a top player dismantling his weaker opponent and the game seems unremarkable with the exception of the Bg6! Bolt from the blue." Coleman said.
It's not dangerous to flat earthers because there is a wall of ice around the earth.
That is just heartbreaking how bad that little creature wants to escape from there :(
This is brilliant! I have a cat that likes to sit places she shouldn't be sitting and I am going to try this to get her to stop.
yess i dont get it with hieght, i mean i know its good to have some standards but men cant change their hieght, i mean the perfect man could be waiting for u and u wont date him cause he 5'7 or somethin?
McDonalds losing this trademark was a case of hypocrisy. They tried to ban the company supermac's from using their similar sounding name but couldn't prove their case and lost their entire trademark in return.
do ppls parents actually do this!!??(also that was great payback😉)
Yup. My parents did it when I was little. They also smashed all my rock and metal CDs. 20 years later, I'm still screaming FFF***********CCCCCCCCKKK to my favorite metal bands 😂
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is this illegal now? its a bit risky doing this becuase soap isnt exactly safe to swallow
It’s not outright illegal but there was a case where a little girl died and the mother was charged. Doing it is putting yourself at risk of legal action if anything goes wrong.
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Went to a private boarding school. When I was about 12, two of us were caught swearing by a cleaner and she told the headmaster. He put us in the annex and we sat there with a bar of soap in our mouths. After only two minutes it starts dissolving, and it very quickly becomes a mouthful of mushy soap. I had ulcers in my mouth for weeks. As soon as the head mistress heard about it, she came and stopped it. You could see she was not happy about it. That headmaster was old fashioned and really sucked up to the posh kids and their parents. I hated him. Inadvertently taught me to be a better person and not a social snob.
My grandparents would do this to my mom but instead of soap they would wash it out with hot sauce. And one of my uncles liked it so they had to change the soap!
I was youngest of brother & 3 cousins, when in trouble my uncle gave me a glycerin soap, others regular. Not great, but it wasn't as bad as the boys, elders had! Still my favorite uncle!
I've definitely heard of parents doing this, but mine never did, thank goodness. When my kid cussed accidentally in front of me at 15 yo, I just laughed.
I call BS on this. Only because once, my dog ate a bar of soap. When I called the vet, they said not to worry it was fairly harmless, but would cause diarrhea. Also, this is an age old practice, and no one I know has ever gotten $5000 hospital sick from it.
Dogs are different from humans, honey. It causes Diarrhea, vomitting blood, throat burns, vision loss, mouth/throat swelling, etc. bad idea
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This happened to me! A midwest daycare giver literally washed my mouth out with soap bc i wasn't quiet during sesame street!
BUT... didn't you suffer, too?? I can't imagine the discomfort the soap did to your stomach!!
"What brought you to this lowly state?" "It ...it was....soap poisoning!"
My parents used to wash my mouth out with soap, I have raised my kids the same way, It doesn't make any difference to the swearing now, as much as it did when I was a kid. Such as 'Bloody Hell' was the worst I came up with when I was a kid, so much worse now.
Now im just curious if farting would ever produce some bubbles after that...
No. Unless you also have serious diarrhea and you shart; then maybe yes.
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A 5000 dollar hospital bill, for swallowing soap? Sounds like you may be a liar.
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS??? Wow, bet your parents weren’t impressed.
This gave me an idea for my own funeral. May I'll add knocking sounds.
I was curious and decided to google why a school would ban bags and apparently it was for health and safety reasons. The students were expected to just carry their books in their arms instead.
I'm really glad they put the meme after each joke or I would have been so confused.
You have to read it in a weird booming deep voice. Makes it just a little funnier lol
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I 100% did not. Looked closely at the first one, scrolled past every other seeing only the text.
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I'm really glad they put the meme after each joke or I would have been so confused.
You have to read it in a weird booming deep voice. Makes it just a little funnier lol
Load More Replies... I 100% did not. Looked closely at the first one, scrolled past every other seeing only the text.
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