![]() ![]() Giancarlo: 3.d5 is a very good follow up by black. It allows white to shuffle his king about quite safely, and will be very well positioned if a queen exchange is brought about. It would be helpful to fix it to avoid confusing people. Tintin: - have you noticed 's comment pointing out that there should be no pawn on d5. Vischer: The picture doesn't match the notation, Sylvester: Hey ksadler! You were suggesting the opening of the day! I am checking it out. PVS: Take a look at Pollock vs Bird 1895, it involves the same set-up, the key is the white queen capturing the rook on a8. Pawntificator: Could you find an example game with the trap in it? A candidate master!! For goodness sakes! I think I would have given up everything to pursue chess if I had been you. By the way, I am old enough that I played the Scotch Game a few years before Kasparov revived it. When I became a candidate master I would still dust it off now and then when I got sick of the Scotch Game. ![]() It almost always worked against players rated 1200-1400 or so. I found it in a book of chess traps and then looked it up in MCO. PVS: This is the first opening I learned by name. Now formally known as Earth-19, the Gaslight universe has made recent in-continuity appearances in Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Gotham by Gaslight, Convergence and Booster Gold: Futures End.Explore this opening | Search for sacrifices in this opening.ģ. The Elseworlds imprint has waxed and waned over the years, but it seems that the universe of the Victorian-age Batman first established Gaslight has achieved something few of its subsequent stablemates have managed: carving out a place for itself in the current DC Multiverse. RELATED: 12 DC Comics Elseworlds We Want to Revisit ![]() ![]() Over the years Elseworlds books, each emblazoned with a stylized star logo encircled by the "Elseworlds" name, have featured a wide range of heroes from across the DC Universe in such acclaimed works as Kingdom Come, a deconstructionist tale about changing tastes in superhero values, and Superman: Red Son, which imagines a world in which the Man of Steel landed on Earth in the Soviet Union rather than in rural Kansas. Moreover, the reception of Gaslight actually prompted DC in 1991 to found its Elseworlds imprint as a home for high-quality out-of-continuity tales. I pored over page after page for hours as I read and reread the book, developing a particular soft spot for "Inspector Gordon" and his pince-nez glasses in the process, as well as Gordon's description of the proto-Joker as a "happy-looking Jasper." Mignola's distinctive angular style commands every page, and is greatly enhanced by both the high quality of the book's paper and its masterful coloring, which emphasizes flashbacks with shades of gray, well-lit dramatic and action scenes with striking yellows and the grime of the city with muddy browns, smoky purples and dark reds that contrast with the brilliant scarlet of Batman's own blood.Īside from the artist's dynamic figure work, what really continues to draw my eye, just as much now as it did when I first read the story back in the early 1990s, is Mignola's eye for historical detail the statues and architecture, replete with all manner of Victorian advertising the horses, with their nostrils flaring with exertion from of weight of carriages they are pulling. ![]()
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