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😉)
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.
Oh my god that would be annoying. I carry around my text books and writing books for all of my subjects as well as a pencil case and water bottle and my lunch. I wouldn't be able to without a bag. My mum always says I'll break my back because it's to heavy. We do have lockers but they're always to far away from classes to get to between lessons and they're tiny. I can't imagine having to carry everything.
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thats a really dumb rule. banning school bags? next theyll ban pencil cases :I
Not really. It's usually for safety reasons.I attended an alternative school in which about 80% of the students were juvenile delinquents (not me). Half of them were on probation. Because a majority of the students enjoyed committing crimes, there were a ton of rules to protect staff and students. Security was very strict with enforcing the rules. We weren't allowed to have bags, writing materials, or keys. The school provided paper, pens, and pencils. Our keys had to be deposited into a plastic container before we went through the metal detectors and a staff member would hand them back at the end of the day. Also, we were only allowed to wear flat shoes because a girl used the heel of her stilettos as a weapon during a fight.
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Has no-one heard of pockets? It wouldn't exactly be difficult to conceal weapons in your clothing. What about tighter gun legislation?
Sorry everyone, I don't know why my reply appeared under nearly everyone's post.
I'll just take this moment to thank the Universe that I went to school in relatively normal times in a normal country that generally forbids peeps having guns
My school bans bags because they don't want kids to bring drugs or weapons in the bag to school. They actually require you to carry everything in a Trapper-Keeper instead. Like, ok?? I'll carry my marijuana in my Trapper Keeper?? I'll just put my Bowie knife in one of the seven pockets? I'll put my bong in the net?? That's easier anyways??
There was a similar story with a school in the UK. They took down the actual WALL to the girls bathroom, making stalls, sinks etc visible to the entire student body. They justified it as being for 'safety' reasons, if I recall correctly. It was St. Mary's College if you wanted to read up on it.
Oh good grief! Just carry them like we did back in the day! We didn't have backpacks or rolling suitcases. We just carried them, stacked one on the other from the biggest on the bottom to the smallest on top. Bunch of damn pansies!
So, because school sucked for you back then, it shouldn't be better for today's kids either?!
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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
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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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