My Christmas present, 2 bottle of aftershave, had run out.
So I skip merrily into Boots the Chemist and a bored but pretty looking
girl directs me to the shaving shelf where the aftershave is displayed.
We dive in for a closer look.
Lured by the romantic pirate sounding name I buy the Bay Rum aftershave.
Time passes...
You can see that the Bay Rum aftershave has been used. For 5 days
I splashed this stuff on my face. I was wondering why I was getting
funny looks at work and the scent was not a normal aftershave smell.
Time to read the label of the back of the bottle.
It’s for people with nits!
I took it back to Boots and the pretty girl behind the counter
collapsed into a hysterical fit of laughter. and tells her chums.
I was given a proper bottle of aftershave and told I
could keep (more giggles all around) the Bay Rum.
Greenpawn Tip No. 136.
Read the labels of things before you splash it on your face.
this is actually trap No1 in…
Next week we do Trap 2, the week after that Trap 4 and so on.
(Wait a minute....what about Trap 3?……..Russ)
No, that is part of my main repertoire, I’m not giving that one away.
OK. Let us now take a look at this Geller Trap.
J. Adamski - Y. Geller Olympiad 1968
So I skip merrily into Boots the Chemist and a bored but pretty looking
girl directs me to the shaving shelf where the aftershave is displayed.
We dive in for a closer look.
Lured by the romantic pirate sounding name I buy the Bay Rum aftershave.
Time passes...
You can see that the Bay Rum aftershave has been used. For 5 days
I splashed this stuff on my face. I was wondering why I was getting
funny looks at work and the scent was not a normal aftershave smell.
Time to read the label of the back of the bottle.
It’s for people with nits!
I took it back to Boots and the pretty girl behind the counter
collapsed into a hysterical fit of laughter. and tells her chums.
I was given a proper bottle of aftershave and told I
could keep (more giggles all around) the Bay Rum.
Greenpawn Tip No. 136.
Read the labels of things before you splash it on your face.
this is actually trap No1 in…
Next week we do Trap 2, the week after that Trap 4 and so on.
(Wait a minute....what about Trap 3?……..Russ)
No, that is part of my main repertoire, I’m not giving that one away.
OK. Let us now take a look at this Geller Trap.
J. Adamski - Y. Geller Olympiad 1968
1968 was not over when Geller sprang the trap again. Geller won,
but had to go through a severe attack. WHite had an improvement.
I. Chikovani v Y. Geller Karseladze memorial 1968
16. Kh1 here instead of 16.Qxd4.
The King is tucked away and White has a tempo on Black’s Queen. 16…Qb6 17.Rd1.
Geller played 15…Be5 weathered the attack and scored a hat trick with
this trap. Here is how it went. The lesson is cold bloodied defending.
Poor defending is rife at the lower levels. I’m having to use a top
class game because examples on the 1400-1900 DB are hard to find. 🙂
36 years later. Y. Kuzubov - Y. Visser Groningen 2004
White to play move 16.
Remember how useless that White light squared Bishop was? Infact
White was trying to sac it and Geller chose to decline to take it.
Instead of 16.b3 which happened in the previous game. White did a clearance sacrifice. 16.c5!
and with c4 now available for the light squared Bishop the attack on f7 really means something.
It’s also a trap within a trap.
Should Black play 16…Qxc5 then 17.Be3 traps the Queen.
(Black has to play 17…Bc3 to free e5 for the Queen.)
Years passed... and in 2008 A lad on here sprung the Geller Trap.
The RHP player showed the planet a whole new pitfall to fall into.
Man O War - Richardt Hansen RHP 2008.
Anybody with nits want half a bottle of Bay Rum?
Don't know if White got his move order mixed up
or simply overlooked Bxc3.
It's not the worst blunder I've seen,
or for that matter played by me. 🙁
The note about dark squared Bishops now makes sense.
Cheers.