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Archoniclastic Chess. Pieces are augmented on squares of their color. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]New comment system indeed.
Regulator Chess. Game on a 35 square board with a 7 square track on which a piece moves that determines how Knights and Bishops can move. (6x7, Cells: 42) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Mon, Apr 1, 2002 12:45 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★excellent!
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General Comments Page. Page for making general comments.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝David Howe wrote on Mon, Apr 1, 2002 04:40 PM UTC:Ok, it's here. The general comments page. Have at it!!
Thanks for the space, David (my mind, <em>tidy</em>? -- now there's
a strange concept!).
<p>[I'd have said you had a beautiful mind, but that phrase was already taken. --DH]
Once more, with feeling!
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John Lawson wrote:
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'And on the other topic, once youopen the door to Gilbert and Sullivan
chess, logic dictates all sorts of generalizations (Aristophanes chess,
Tolstoi chess, Rowling chess, ad...ad...I dunno)'
</blockquote>
And all of them potentially good articles that would warm the cockles
an an editor's heart (assuming they have any -- and just what the heck
<em>are</em> cockles anyway?). When do you think you can start? <g>
<p>Editor's note: <a href="http://www.word-detective.com/012199.html#cockles">cockles</a> --DH.
Regarding 'cockles', below. Note that the link actually provides no solution to the meaning of 'cockles' in this sense. Neither does the Oxford English Dictionary, which has much the same info as the editor's link. The upshot is, we don't know what 'cockles' are. I once read a hypothesis that suggested that expressions that were used formulaicly, but made no sense (like 'dead as a doornail') were actually the punchlines of forgotten jokes. Sounds dopey, but think of how many punchlines you use as metaphors in colloquial conversation, and how often you really tell the jokes they go with.
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:25 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★What about ratings abysmal, mediocre, and superb? Keeping the discussion alive alive O, I always thot that cockles were a type of dialectic seafood, suitable for the musselbound. However, if in doubt, the question can be submitted to alt.usage.english, a font of linguistic wisdom. Submit without review is not necessary as long as it is made obvious that submit can be found within review: we are accustomed to pesky and insecure programs asking us 'are you sure, are you really reaaly sure, should I do what you said or are you a jerk? 99 and 44/100ths, not 99.4; Ivory Soap (tm). It's your turn in the barrel, as Safire recently apologized for saying -- the phrase is the punchline of a *dirty* joke, you see. Many adages and colloquialisms come from jokes or from Ad Age; and they are ephemeral, for example who today would know what ad agency I one worked for if I specify that it sounds like a suitcase falling down a flight of stairs, as Marcel Duchamp once said. Oh, sorry, it was Fred Allen who said it. As comedians in the Borscht Belt once asked, 'Where's the beet?' Back to topic, how can there be a Comdey Chess, in which every move is a joke??
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:31 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Perhaps html mode does not work. I see no link about cockles.
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It should be noted that those who use an invisible smiley must make
arrangements to pay a null royalty to me. It was I who invented it, for use in afu.
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I will type in a <A HREF=http://www.lynx.browser.org/>link</a> to test html-mode comments.
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:34 AM UTC:Poor ★if a comment is submitted in html mode, its left margin is indented. <P> Non-html comments start at page left. <P> The above is true when viewing with lynx. Your mileage may vary if you use any of the inferior alternatives. <P>
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:37 AM UTC:Poor ★if a comment is submitted in non-html mode, things that appear to be html tags are not printed. Are they interpreted? here's an hr:<HR> <P> The previous line appears blank but contained left-angle-bracket. P, right-angle-bracket. <P> This is inconsistent behavior.
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:39 AM UTC:Poor ★if a comment is submitted in non-html mode, things that appear to be html tags are not printed. But the preview prints them!!! <P> The previous line appears blank but contained left-angle-bracket. P, right-angle-bracket. In preview mode, I saw the html tag, but when viewing comments I see a blank line. <P> This is inconsistent behavior.
gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:46 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Most of the recent flood of commants/feebback was caused by my article on ''Chatter Chess'''', which has not yet been seen. <P> Imagine what may happen if chatter chess ever sees the light of day, will the comment system be able to handle such volume? <P> These are important considerations.... <P> <Blink>
Grid Chess. Always move to a different 2 by 2 square part of the board. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]gnohmon wrote on Tue, Apr 2, 2002 05:49 AM UTC:Poor ★The comment system says 'skip to comments' but there are no comments. This game should not be described without mentioning U-Grid Chess, and also Betza's Pinwheel Chess (and Orbital Rotating Grid and so forth).
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