Daily Rome Shot 769

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What’s up with this?   There has been an invasion of the blue crabs, the sort from North American Chesapeake Bay, into the waters between Venice and the mouth of the Po and even around the Roman coast!   They are very aggressive, damaging fishing nets, and wreaking havoc with mussels and clams and telline.  These blue bastards don’t have any predators.  Or… they do!  The Italian solution is to eat them.   In fact, eating these critters is keeping them under control.  Here are packaged ravioli, obviously, but they are now available in restaurants the freshly made.  When I get back to Rome in October, I’ll check my regular fishmonger and talk to the chefs at two of the better restaurants in my neighborhood.    The Great Roman™ opined, “After tomatoes, potatoes, corn and and turkey, another gift from Columbus”.  Grazie, Cristoforo!

Meanwhile, black to move and mate in 7, considering white’s desperate attempts to delay the inevitable.   I had this one in today’s daily round of puzzles.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

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Today in Baku the women’s champ was determined, but I haven’t watched it yet.  The men have a tie breaker going one to determine who will face Magnus in the final.   So, its Sali v Gory and Fabi v. Pragg.