The title is a reference to one of the most (in)famous skits on Saturday Night Live. In a parody of Point-Counterpoint, Dan Aykroyd turned to Jane Curtain after she had made her point and said, "Jane, you ignorrant slut!" It is one of the most memorable lines from a time when the show was in it's prime.
The Abby from above is Abby Marshall, a young woman of meager chess abilities, who writes a column, The Openings Explained, for the Chess Cafe (www.chesscafe.com). I do not mean to imply that Abby has been, as was stated so eloquently by one of the Road Warriors many years ago when talking about a young lady on the chess circuit, "Passed around like yesterday's newspaper." She is far too young for that to have happened, yet...Her column of May 4, 2011 is, "A good system for White against the French Defense."
Denis Monokroussos writes The Chess Mind blog (www.thechessmind.net). His post of Thursday, May 5, 2011 is titled, "Refuting the 4.Bf4 Variation of the Exchange French" (http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/?currentPage=2), which says it all. He writes, "Still, I was in a contrarian mood this morning, and so after five-ten minutes of rigorous analysis at the breakfast table this morning, I refuted the aforementioned attacking plan:.."
We know someone reads Abby's column. How about you?
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