You can make up for it by visiting my channel and telling me if you think I'm Doing Something Wrong.* ;)

We discussed *that* before:

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<Dom: <But, earlier still, it meant 'foolish', and the original root is the Latin 'nescius', or *ignorant*. How did that drift into 'vaguely pleasant, good-natured, agreeable' ...?>>

In his defence, it should be said that this is one of the very rare critiques of chess that gives the impression of knowing whereof it speaks: Burroughs has been deep enough into chess - and other addictions - to see the basic similarity.

Most other 'anti-chess' stuff comes either from terminally depressed players or know-nothing bores.

I particularly like those cases where the sounds allow the names to run into one another, stresses and stops permitting. And elision, just like real speech. Djerim Akarfiy would approve too, if he were with us.

No, it's not you, <Dom>. ;)

But I'm home late tonight, because I stopped to pick up a pizza on the way. :D

Note to self - get more olives next time. Fluffy ate almost half of'em off it just now. She doesn't seem to care for the rest of the pizza, though. And she's supposedly my <more> normal kitteh... ;s

<Dom> Burroughs - and pretty much everyone around him - would have been much better off if he had stuck to chess. There's probably a lesson somewhere in there. :p

Thanks for looking at the clips! :)

<Your schacchistic nominal orthoepy is paradigmatically paragonoid.>

Heh - Thanks!

<<Bacrot> is especially tres Frog - I thought you didn't do argot.>

I don't do <ergot>, or other hallucinogens. Argot, I can try now and then. ;)

BTW, <paradigmatically paragonoid> + <tres Frog> = <Arboreal Amphibian>.

The math made me do it.

I'm particularly glad you liked Bacrot, btw, since somebody claiming to be French just claimed it was RONG. ;s

Hey, thanks for the reminder on Pirc, also - I kinda forgot he was one of the "notoriously difficult" names - I'll have to make a video on him ASAP!

<I was recently sent a book by a friend about a beauty spot named <Loch Hyne> or <Lough Ine> ... I should try to hold a chess event there someday.>

An ideal location indeed! :d

Oh, speakina... I just got a notice from the post office to come and pick up a parcel. I wasn't expecting one, so - draw conclusions. I'll know more tomorrow, aifinkso.

No, I know some specimens of this, and other "off" types we see here, that don't even play chess. But it does <attract>'em.

... 'No, but it certainly helps', as Euwe said. ;p

Which is pretty much what Annie said.

I apologize, though, if you feel 'stabbed in the back' ... as if, perhaps, I had entered into an agreement to communicate amicably and then changed my stance. But I thought you weren't really getting the 'communication' side of things.

As for openings, I had some more suggestions for you: study the existing ones, and their history - you don't have to go very deep, but it helps to understand why some moves are played more than others. *Then* check out players (Ujtelky, Suttles, Basman) who are famous for going their own way in the opening.

And, if you're still determined, subscribe to 'SOS - Secrets of Opening Surprises'.

On other matters, as you may have noticed at my forum, I'm trying to poll more Froggiephiles about the Bacrot pronunciation, so do you really think it's good? :)

Etaoin Shrdlu.