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Originally posted by @sonhouse
You know, I had a surgeon friend who wanted to do a sex change on himself.
I told him he would never pull it off.....

Originally posted by @lemondrop
give an example please

Originally posted by @moonbus
Ahhhhhhh.

Originally posted by @nevare
choo!

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
lemondrop had a terrible curse
couldn't decide which defence to nurse
he tried the Robatsch
but soon got smashed
and reverted back to the Pirc.

I think the pronunciation is closer to Purse than Perk though some say Pierce too.
😉

Originally posted by @wolfgang59
lemondrop had a terrible curse
couldn't decide which defence to nurse
he tried the Robatsch
but soon got smashed
and reverted back to the Pirc.

I think the pronunciation is closer to Purse than Perk though some say Pierce too.
😉

Perk!

He'd always played the Pirc,
Upon his face a smirk,
Until one day it failed,
The kingly plan derailed,
Ne'er more this opening quirk.

Originally posted by @nevare
It's pronounced peertz. Peer...then a ts sound. Confusing I know so we just say pirc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirc_Defence

Originally posted by @ponderable
Actually I would explain it for the English into "Pits" with an added r 😉

Originally posted by @wolfe63
Thanks Mr. Ponderable.
I'd always pronounced it incorrectly too. I'd never given it much thought actually.
Upon first analysis, once aware of his Yugoslavian heritage, I would have pronounced his name like "perch". (But that's Serbian I bet.)

Anyway, the PIrc Defense seems rather fishy...so I like perch.😉

Originally posted by @lemondrop
someone should do a play by play of this match
nevare, playing black, chooses the pirc defense

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Done and dusted.

Pirc didn't protect him.

😛

Originally posted by @handyandy
Nor did his astounding intelligence.