stop laughing at fabio's mustachio

[photo stolen unapologetically from https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-fide-chess-com-grand-swiss-round-5]

here's luke laughing at fabio's reforestation  attempts.  that was totally uncalled for.  with most of the top players now either totally clean shaven or scruffy, no one else seems to be taking the effort to bring the manly mustache back.

alekhine, to his credit, at least toyed with the idea somewhat before giving it up.

but after the russian machinery took over and effectively killed the forests, they had a good laugh about it.  just see spassky rofl. 

it seems modern masters have forgotten lasker's famous words

vishy! why hath thou forsaken thy mush?

and how did you expect to beat magnus without one?

rollie fingers would laugh.

but it's all true - look at the guy who has a plus score against carlsen

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=Ian+Nepomniachtchi+vs+Magnus+Carlsen

if he started shaving his beard, he'd do better against other players as well!

rollie wonders where the current generation went wrong

LOL

when topalov realised it was the mush that gave him the advantage, he couldn't believe it either.

yes, ouch, indeed.  activate that bishop, topalov!  go!

On another topic, a more lively and manly default chess.com avatar was proposed.

(derived from @KinkyKool)

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/off-topic/a-more-lively-default-avatar?page=2

We're not laughing at it, we're laughing with it!

Even Bronstein had his moment.

Nice!  That mush definitely pushed him to the top but as per his claims,  the Russians wouldn't have him there.  #savetheforest #mushpush

At this point all we can confirm is

Despite all the ROFL bravado in post #1, spassky always knew deep down something was missing in his life but just couldn't figure out what. 

in fact, tal developed a nicotine addiction trying to cope

and it's not as if the other collaborators were not aware of the missing mush but they all continued hiding the fact.

who's laughing now?

bump to post

If you grow your mush bushy enough, you won't have to trim nose hairs.

a messy entanglement could ensue, though.

thanks man.

carl schletcher was out-mushed by lasker.  only the best mush wins.

or vice versa

breathing would be a challenge...

tigran petrosian often wondered what it might have been like to face spassky better armed or mushed or at least half mushed ...