<brankat: How can it be determined that one had known the answer?>

<Ed Trice: I asked, simply, for an explanation of his answer. There was none forthcoming. The response was "Tell me if I am right or wrong first." That basically is a confirmation that somebody heard the riddle before and no longer remembered how to explain the solution.>

Confirmation! Trice wins!

Or Otto Partz, even?

What if you are just <banal>?

Could that state be construed as evil?

Well I think it very well could be, and you don't have to slog through <Arendt> for confirmation.

But you'd probably have to slog through most of the <Frankfort School> corpus.

Ok then.

But now I got it heading for 10,000 again.

Heh.

NOw I know what time it is in <Seoul>.

Did you know they are on a whole different day?

Fascinating...

If I come back to <Canada>, do I get the day back when I arrive?

Or is it lost forever?

Did you know it's not the same "time" in different places?

Since, you will be crossing the International Date Line, here's something to feel good about.

Does this mean I will be doing <time travel>?

What will happen to my <DNA sequence>?

<What will happen to my <DNA sequence>?> Yes.

That was never gonna work, was it? Not that I'd have known what to do if it had, since I don't travel. And even if they brought the International Date Line to me, I *still* wouldn't know what to do.

I've found this incredibly brilliant Russian book -- the language and speeches are just extraordinary, even with Russian as bad as mine. It's called "MAKBET" by "Vilyam Shekspir", amazing stuff. I'm sure there must be an English version.

Trice, sorry, *Trick* question: which character in this play has a name which can be written in Cyrillic using only a standard Roman alphabet?

Answer: POCC

The old king, DYHKAH, comes close, apart from the initial 'D'. And the guy whose ghost haunts MAKBET over dinner is another near miss, BAHKO.

Speaking of <near misses>, Jess, I don't suppose ... ?

No, I guess not. The EMU will be in the post, OK?

I promise to use <condominiums>.

You never know where people have been!

Ack I'm flying soon please make them let me through customs at <Incheon International Airport>

Chess960 WCC reached an interesting stage with Vishy and Aronian tied at 2 points each. Its blitz time. Catch the action live at http://www.chesstigers.de/live/ccm7...

Incorrect! The number of posts has risen again to a new high, thanks to me refraining from using dirty words in my posts.

OK try again.

<Ed Trice> is copy and pasting any message he doesn't like and emailing it to the site administrators.

(the preceding text there was composed by <Ed>, not me, so I do not expect it to be zapped)

Apparently he has a lot of pull around here because I estimate he's batting 1000.

If this post gets censored I'll seriously consider spending my next 20 dollars at a different chess site.

Not exactly in the spirit of things, I'd have thought, and a lot of pointless work for those hard-pressed admins. So I'm going to email CG myself just to point out the absurdity of the situation.

There are various ways of fighting fire with fire. I always had veggie tendencies when it came to a diet of rancid dinosaur, but Topsy has become quite unpalatable.

Is it possible that they prefer the alleged inventor of goth chess to the alleged inventor of Frog chess?

Perhaps if we complained en masse, <toot sweet>, about *everything* he does. It certainly contravenes my sense of the spirit of the rules -- however, I've spent enough time around lawyers to know that's not particularly relevant, and a rule-governed entity like Topsy tends to have an instinct for the right side of the line.

Nonetheless, I've come to agree with Joe Wms's original reaction. For the good of CG, this guy has to be taken out.

<Jess> Thanks for pointing out that collection of Nimzo games, but it has to be a qualified thanks. The games are wonderful, but Reinfeld's commentary is weak. Whenever possible, opt for the annotations in My System, or Chess Praxis, or Ray Keene's excellent book, Aron Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal. Even better is Bjorn Nielsen's Nimzowitsch: Danmarks Skaklaehrer, but it's in Danish (I'll loan you my copy if we meet on the ledge ... in the Danish Aleutians after the Arctic Oil War).

So boo to Fred Reinfeld. Hey, I'm in a crabby mood tonight, ain't I? Steg-of-the-Dump ain't the only reason -- I attended a wedding party earlier, something I have a strong ideological objection to: think I've gone to just two in 25 years.

I wore dark glasses and a hat to seek anonymity, but people just told me how utterly cool I looked. Sigh.

<You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quit the game.>

and wasn't he also mixed up in some fracas at <chez Drakula> as well?

As portrayed by <Tom Waites> I believe.

<Dom>, I think the <triceratops> is best left to his own devices.

It's only the Internet, after all.

It's not like he's cramping our style, he just wants to do his own thing.

The second we leave him alone, all "troubles" will end immediately.

Let sleeping dinosaurs lie?

Well that's my 2 cents worth.

We're not policewomen, after all.