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The question mark symbol (?) is used in chess notation to denote a move which is a mistake, or "blunder". For example, in 1.e4 e5 2.

h5 g6? 3.

xe5+. Two question marks (??) denotes an especially bad move, e.g. 1.e4 e5 2.

e7?? 3.

xe5#. The exact difference between ? and ?? is largely subjective.

The symbol is generally thought to originate from the Latin qućstio, meaning question, which was abbreviated to 'Qo'. The capital 'Q' was written above the lowercase 'o', and this mark was transformed into the modern symbol. Another theory about the origin of the question mark proposes that the mark originated in the 9th century, when it appeared as a point followed by a wavy line, like '.~'. The point has always indicated the end of a sentence. The curved line represented the intonation pattern of a spoken question, and may be associated with a kind of early musical notation, like neums.

In some languages, most notably in Spanish typography since the 18th century, every question mark must be opened and closed; an interrogative sentence or phrase begins with an inverted question mark, "ż" and ends with the familiar question mark "?". (Source: Wikipedia article: %3F)

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Dec-20-09		A Karpov Fan: So you are a trekkie <malthrope>, an original no less...well, I like a bit of Sci-Fi myself. I don't want to start throwing photon torpedoes around, but the best Captain was Jean Luke Picard http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... imo. He had all the best stories. And if anybody thinks otherwise, be warned my shields are at 100 % and my phasors locked onto your warp drives ;-)

Dec-20-09		Open Defence: the best captain ? Data as a stand in Captain during the monitoring of the neutral zone

Dec-20-09		A Karpov Fan: I seem to remember a story where data fails as a Captain by sticking to logical principles, overiding his subordinates gut instincts....and then later in the episode he saves the day by doing just that. I'm not big enough a trekkie to be able to identify the Captain's Log No. tho -lol-

Dec-20-09		HeMateMe: I remember a similar story, when the original Spock 'had the com', when he was leading a small exploring party on another world. Their shuttle craft was trapped by overweight men in bigfoot suits, hurling large chunks of brown styrofoam at the small ship, in an effort to promote terror. After bickering with crew members for most of the voyage, Spock save them all when he jettisoned off their remaining fuel, like a flare, and they were then found and rescued. I guess the Enterprise's instruments should have been better suited for this than a long range roman candle, but you have to suspend your disbelief, to enjoy good sci-fi.

Dec-21-09		Benzol: <HeMateMe: I remember a similar story, when the original Spock 'had the com', when he was leading a small exploring party on another world. Their shuttle craft was trapped by overweight men in bigfoot suits, hurling large chunks of brown styrofoam at the small ship, in an effort to promote terror. After bickering with crew members for most of the voyage, Spock save them all when he jettisoned off their remaining fuel, like a flare, and they were then found and rescued.> The episode was "The Gallileo Seven" from the first season IIRC.

Dec-21-09		Benzol: Thinking about it the Next Generation episode was Redemption if I remember rightly where Denise Crosby resurfaces playing Romulan Sela who is Tasha Yar's daugther. Data as captain of another federation starship had to argue with Timothy Carhart who played the role of his first officer.

Dec-21-09		Benzol: Get a life Benzol!

Dec-22-09		A Karpov Fan: <Benzol> Wow...Live long and propser dude :-)

Dec-23-09		HeMateMe: Was Kirk the 'Tal' of the day, and Spock was 'Botvinnik'? Kirk had enough creativity to somehow defeat the more studious Spock in three dimensional chess--Spock could out-calculate James Tiberius Kirk, but Jimbo had a flare for the unforseen sac!

Dec-20-11		tpstar: A cute page but you must know how to find it. =)

Dec-21-11		Kimmel: <HeMateMe: I remember a similar story, when the original Spock 'had the com', > It's surprising that a native English speaker such as yourself will make this error. It's "had the conn". Google it up.

Dec-22-11		whiteshark: It's the season of miracles!

Jan-24-12		Stonehenge: ?????

Feb-10-12		rapidcitychess: It doesn't make any sense.

Feb-10-12		Benzol: <A cute page but you must know how to find it> Another one not quite as difficult to find A N Other :)

Mar-21-12		MarkFinan: Why don't people just post their little blitz games here, as opposed to the cafe where things tend to get buried??? Lets face it, they'll be plenty ?????????? after moves anyway... Seems perfect to me.

Jun-29-12		Open Defence: we seem to have forgotten this page

Jun-29-12		WannaBe: It's hard to get to, can't do a search on/for it. Unless you have it as part of bookmark or (hidden) in your bio. =)

Jun-29-12		NakoSonorense: Only one page worth of posts since 2009. What D Hell is going on here ?

Jun-29-12		Calli: Last I saw ? was the 60s. He was wearing dark glasses and singing in a band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC...

Jun-29-12		King Death: <Calli> Are you sure you saw ? or maybe it was NN instead??

Jun-30-12		Calli: The rumor was that if you played "96 Tears" backwards it said "? is dead and NN is a patzer".

Oct-19-12		The Last Straw: This is a page for patzers?

Dec-21-12		Stonehenge: Doomsday?

Dec-21-12		WannaBe: I don't know, personally I'd visit The Stonehenge and consult with the Sun & Moon.

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