Big Pawn: Part 8
The Iliad
Thomas Hobbes Translation
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And Agamemnon only for them grieve,
They my assistance wish for shall in vain.
This said, Achilles threw the sceptre down
That stuck all over was with nails of gold;
Hobbes1839: 325And Nestor rose, of Pyle that wore the crown,

Wise and sweet orator and captain old.
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His words like honey dropped from his tongue. Two ages he in battle honour gain’d. For all that while he youthful was and strong, Hobbes1839: 240And with the third age now in Pyle he reign’d.

What grief t’ Achæa coming is, said he,
O Gods, what joy to Priam and his seed,
How glad will all the Trojans be to see
You two, that all the rest in pow’r exceed,
Hobbes1839: 245With your own hands shed one another’s blood!

I elder am, do then as I advise.
For I conversed have with men as good,
That yet my counsel never did despise.
Perithous and Dryas were great men,
Hobbes1839: 250And Polyphemus and Exadius,

Such as for strength I ne’er shall see again; And so were Cæneus, and Theseus, The strongest of mankind were these, and slew The strongest of wild beasts that haunt the wood. Hobbes1839: 255These strong men I convers’d withal and knew;

And with them also I did what I could.
With these no other could contend in fight.
Yet they from Pyle thought fit to call me forth Far off; nor ever did my counsel slight. Hobbes1839: 260Think not therefore my counsel nothing worth.

Atrides take not from him, though you can,
The damsel which the Greeks have given him.
Forbear the king, Pelides. For the man
Whom Jove hath crown’d is made of Jove a limb. Hobbes1839: 265Though you be strong, and on a Goddess got,

Atrides is before you in command.
Atrides, be but you to peace once brought,
T’ appease Achilles I will take in hand,
Who is (while we are lying here) our wall.
Hobbes1839: 270To this Atrides answered again,

I nothing can deny of this at all.
But he amongst us thinks he ought to reign,
And give the law to all as he thinks fit.
But I am certain that shall never be.
Hobbes1839: 275He well can fight; the Gods have granted it,

<Wilber G> I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm sure the problem isn't with Java. Misty Beach and Chess Tutor seem to work but not Chess Deluxe or Chess Deluxe II. Strange?>

Viewer Help Page

CG.com removed the two Chess Viewer Deluxe (II) objects from their site/folders. (Or the location of the folder got renamed/moved).

But on the drop down, or if you had already set it as your viewer of choice, the object Java Runtime tries to call (a .jar file) is not found.

IMO the chess viewer issue is more important than PA's flame war with <BP>. I encourage you to fix the viewer issue first.

To put it mildly. I've been working 14 hours a day on improving chess viewing functionality here and two users who probably haven't seen a chess game here in the last year think that this website revolves around their personal strife.

<Party Animal (etc.)> You know very well why you were placed on probation as you receive a personalized message when you try to post. It was a very short suspension. Don't do the action which triggered the suspension and you won't be suspended again.

Also do consider the "ignore" option. You need not ever read a word Big Pawn ever types again.

Finally let me say one more thing, applicable to several members here:

Big Pawn: Part 8
The Iliad
Thomas Hobbes Translation ...>

Well, when compared to an endless sea of youtube links at the KC, is poetry really any worse than that?

To put it mildly. I've been working 14 hours a day on improving chess viewing functionality here>

That's why you earn the big bucks!

<If you <quote> another user using language which may trigger an infraction, YOU are equally liable to receive the infraction. You've been warned.>

You missed that I had tried both Chrome and Firefox and they don't show the problem. So I'm sure it’s IE-related. Which is strange since Windows XP has not been supported by Microsoft for years so I'm reasonably certain that it was not the result of a Windows upgrade. It could be due to malware but I update my virus checker (Norton) regularly with the latest virus signatures and run it afterwards and no problems of this type have ever been indicated. And why would any hacker bother to release a virus that affect IE v.8 which has been obsolete for years?

Equally interesting is that I decided to try to go to chessgames.com on my wife's computer which has the same version of Windows XP and IE. On her computer the chessgames.com page wouldn't even load! So I suppose I should consider myself lucky that I only get sent to the bottom of the Home page.

I suspect that you had a CPU stack overflow error during a web browser auto-refresh.

These happen within microseconds, so you might not have noticed a sequencing synchronization disruption in the underlying machine language configuration protocol.

Next time, I suggest an "option+command+control+halt" input during the anti-phase excursion of your protocol host. Then initiate a <manual> dereferenced framing rejection of your asynchronous command interrupt.

(Hint: If you try to do this *automatically* instead of manually you might corrupt your SRAM reboot capability, and will then have to run a de-optimization subroutine of the anti-hosting protocol, in order to avoid the dreaded blue screen of death. That happened to me once, and the next 3 hours of hell you DON'T want to know about...).

Anyway, immediately after that your machine should automatically reconfigure for more efficient parallel processing, especially if you are running a dual core multi-processor.

If you see a non-static reconfiguration error during this time, expect a command line prompt. Just enter the standard ctrl+alt+g+% when the alpha-refresh screen materializes. You will see the very common double ampersand querry.

You know what to do from there.