kamalakanta wrote:
Well, at least Ajax got a detergent named after him!
If we are going to use an Averbakh thread to advertise products, how about Brillcream!!
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Manthos-I, yes, this looks to me more like a "moving pieces" game instead of dice. I wonder if they are playing for the fortune of not using the creme in the vessel!
simaginfan ... a little dab 'll do ya! Or, three dabs, in this case.
Hmmmm .... Brillcream and funeral-rite oil appearing in the same post ...
Yuri is the oldest living Grandmaster (he got his title in 1952).
He is almost 100 y.o. and he would still play, but he is literally blind since 2008.
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Manthos-I wrote:
Looking at a large view, it looks more like Ajax is holding a playing piece and not a die. But if it is a die, then the game can't be petteia since that game was specifically played without dice.
redRonIdaho wrote:
Manthos-I, yes, this looks to me more like a "moving pieces" game instead of dice. I wonder if they are playing for the fortune of not using the creme in the vessel!
simaginfan ... a little dab 'll do ya! Or, three dabs, in this case.
Hmmmm .... Brillcream and funeral-rite oil appearing in the same post ...
The first product advertised by a sportsman in England, I believe. Was still around when I was a kid 😁
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simaginfan wrote:
redRonIdaho wrote:
Manthos-I, yes, this looks to me more like a "moving pieces" game instead of dice. I wonder if they are playing for the fortune of not using the creme in the vessel!
simaginfan ... a little dab 'll do ya! Or, three dabs, in this case.
Hmmmm .... Brillcream and funeral-rite oil appearing in the same post ...
The first product advertised by a sportsman in England, I believe. Was still around when I was a kid 😁
I dabbed a bit as a kid, myself. Hmmmm ... maybe that's why I lost most of my hair!
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simaginfan wrote:
Hmmmm .... Brillcream and funeral-rite oil appearing in the same post ...
The first product advertised by a sportsman in England, I believe. Was still around when I was a kid 😁
Morphy was ahead of his time once again
Did he make any money out of it!? Staunton was presumably payed by Jacques for naming the chess set design after him. A topic for you to look in to!!
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I think Morphy's name and likeness were usurped. His name was also used to sell hats.
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batgirl wrote:
kamalakanta wrote:
Hi! Could not resist...sent away for the Averbach book. I will die poor and destitute, with a huge chess library!
I hope you enjoy it.
kamalakanta wrote:
Well, at least Ajax got a detergent named after him!
Achilles, on the other hand (foot?) has a tendon named after him.
Paris had an entire city named after him while Odysseus (Ulysses) was the title of an Irish book.
Other warriors such as Agamemnon, Aeneas, Hektor, Menalaus and Patroclus were left out in the cold.
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simaginfan wrote:
kamalakanta wrote:
Well, at least Ajax got a detergent named after him!
If we are going to use an Averbakh thread to advertise products, how about Brillcream!!
Wahahaha! I still remember the Brillcream gingle in Spanish, from my childhood!
That same song, in Spanish, went like this:
"Brillcream, su pelo le embellece,
Brillcream, le hará sentir mejor.
Brillcream, le gusta a las muchachas,
Póngase un poquito nada más."
kamalakanta wrote:
Hi! Could not resist...sent away for the Averbach book. I will die poor and destitute, with a huge chess library!
Yep!!🤣. Know that feeling.👍
I sleep with 4 or 5 chess books on my bed, and another 10 on my bedside table.....totally relaxing...one of the best anti-insomnia remedies, along with a golf tournament.....
I open any chess book to any page, and after 10 minutes, lights out!
"Love Yuri Averbakh - done a couple of posts on him. Not seen the book in question, but looked at ( as in not speaking Russian!!) his historical work in magazines. Chess history in the USSR has always suffered from the lack of outside sources, but then again, soviet historians have had access to material on chess in their own country that is not available outside of the USSR. So it is always interesting to read what their historians put out. I mentioned two Russian language ( plus Ukrainian) in my recent offering, and both do great work. Thanks for a thought provoking post!!"
I love Averbakh too.....seems to have been a class act. Exudes nobility of character. Him, Keres and Spassky have a unique nobleness of character, an elegance that is obvious to my eyes.
Achilles and Ajax play a game of dice* on this early 5th-century BC lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites (from Wikipedia)
* perhaps “petteia” or “pessoi” (?)