According to Ali Mortazavi in "The Fine Art of Swindling" (Cadogan, 1996), tripled c-pawns are sometimes known as "Irish Pawns". Does anyone know why? No jokes about the St. Paddy's Day parade, please!
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I like the term "You're forked" :)
Mind you, you may get a punch in the nose if you say it when you deliver mate instead of a fork !!
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According to Ali Mortazavi in "The Fine Art of Swindling" (Cadogan, 1996), tripled c-pawns are sometimes known as "Irish Pawns". Does anyone know why? No jokes about the St. Paddy's Day parade, please!
Purportedly, Tony Miles first coined the phrase when he watched Eamon Keogh use the IPC - Irish pawn center - in Amsterdam 1978 and then used the IPC to beat Eamon later in the same tournament. Smyslov used it to beat Botvinnik and Alexander Baburin wrote an article on it.
WHEN GM TOLUSH /CHESS COACH OF SPASSKIY!/ PLAYED BLITZ, HE WAS TOLD:"AHEAD, KAZIMIROVICH!" IT WAS HIS MIDDLE NAME...
ONE GM AT ZEITNOT TIME WAS SCREAMING: "REFEREE! WHAT COLOUR I AM PLAYING!"
THE HEARS OF GM POLUGAEVSKIY WERE JUST STOOD UP AT THE ZEITNOT AT ONE OF FINAL GAMES!
WHICH FLOOR? -THE LIFT MAN ASKED THE GM FLOR
"1-3! WITH EIVE AND KMOX!"
KOTOV DROP THE PAWN AT HIS GLASS OF TEA, INSTEAD THE CANE CUBE, AND HE DIDN'T MENTIONED IT, AND SHAKEN IT INSIDE BY THE TEA SPOON...
Yo bro, try not inhaling that L.A. smog.
I DIDN'T FULL BREATH 7 YEARS AT THE lOS ANGELES...
L.A. air is sold by the ounce in these parts.
THE TRUCK-DRIVERS USE LA AIR, INSTEAD A FUEL...
Guys, I know a Knight in the center is known as an Octopus. 
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