Your (Google) spelling (and use) of the Greek is perfect, thank you for the important advice, I didn't know this function of Google.

 But there is a missing t elsewhere!... This very letter is of great historical value, in case you want to delete the letter g!...

 If you are interesting in history and theory of politics, you may also pay Darths a visit, physical action there is of secondary importance!  

cuncatorg:  (The greek word, how it comes, a greek friend? A letter, one t is missing elsewhere, it's not important but for historic correspondenses! I love history!...)

No, not a Greek friend ... a Google friend. 

So, typing "translate forgive me to greek" in the search box resulted in συγχωρήστε .  I even tried translating it back in another program to make sure the spelling was correct, but it was apparently not quite right.

 No need for apologies and pardons at all!

 You have (so to speak...) to see the Star Wars movies not as much as a (meta)physical action series but as a spirits adventure and a political (and social) metaphore!...

 BUT -as I see it- you icline yourself towards synthesis, your picture is an hybrid of yourself, yourself plus a bit of Maul, Yoda and Darth Maul...

 (The greek word, how it comes, a greek friend? A letter, one t is missing elsewhere, it's not important but for historic correspondenses! I love history!...)

         Dozy, I love it.  If that doesn't scare the heck out of Darth Vader I don't
know what will.

cuncatorg:  Pardonnez-moi, cuncatorg or, as I should have said in Greek, συγχωρήστε .  I misunderstood your meaning.

I have to confess to not being a Star Wars fan, even though I might refer to the movies from time to time.  The characters created for the show were very clever but it's a bit action-heavy for my personal taste.  (How could it be otherwise?)

I had a message from ZankFrappa yesterday suggesting that perhaps I might like to play my chess games wearing a Yoda suit.  It'd certainly take my opponents' minds off any sneaky manoeuvres I might intend.  Zank's suggestion wasn't as far off base as it sounds, for he was thinking of a slightly different scenario, but I got to thinking about it and wondered if I should come on line looking like this:

 Moreover I am fully convinced that the new version of the "Sheep" baby-song will seriously offend many children who are "vertically challenged", so it has to be abolished as the "Black Sheep" version did.

 And I can not understand how at hell one person who is so much sensitive and humanist with respect the "Black" version, believes that the "Little" (or the "fat", the "dumb", the "ugly" etc.) version is not harmful...

 The extension of the color correspondense to race issues is arbitrary and out of the question for me. As a greek, I hardly can correspond color issues to race issues and of course I am not familiar with Southern Cross...

 That's why I focused on another, well defined correspondense AND moreover I gave two different answers-propositions. I said that I accept the correspondense between the Black side of the chessboard (so the black pieces) and the dark side of the Force (and I gave some arguments...) but I don't accept the extension of this  to the dark squares of the chessboard and the dark side of the Force...

 If I was thinking in terms of political correctness (syntax errors?!?), I just wouldn't adapt any correspondense between any color and the "dark side of the Force", not even to mention Black color!!...

 George Lukas made a correspondense between the dark, the black, the red and the evil (and between the light, the white, the green and blue and the good) but it seems to me fully accidental, after all the american flag carries both blue and red... And George Lukas choice wasn't criticized (to my best knowledge here...) as a racist one, so I too didn't write or even think in race issues... 

 And I insist in my joke that in terms of Jedi Chess, the (classical) bishop's pair could better be called Sith light saber!...

Hi Gert-Jan.  The financhettoed bishop can be a bit passive for a while in the KID but when the pawns start to move it can become explosive.  I've been using the KID (Dozy variation) for a while now and it suits my style just fine.

I don't know a thing about Star Wars but I enjoyed your article. I am using the KID now very often so the power of the pair of bishops is an always interesting topic.

cuncatorg:  I vote against arbitrary generalisations, extensions and prejudices!! Think about it please!

Good grief!  I've started a war.

Thanks for your erudite (and colourful) comment c u n c a t o r g .  You'll be pleased to know that in the wide brown land beneath the Southern Cross, colour is very politically correct these days.  My granddaughter, who is doing a course in early child care, has been taught that the old nursery rhyme "Baa Baa Black Sheep" is no longer to be used.  Now they have to say,  "Baa Baa Little Sheep".

I hope the new version doesn't offend anybody who is vertically challenged. 

 On the Historic Issue of the color correspondense!!!

 I comfortably agree with Dozy that we have to accept a color correspondense of the light ("Jedi" in Dozy's terminology) side with White pieces and the dark side of the Force with Black pieces, firstly because -in the long run- Black (the second player namely...) will not be the winner (even if not the looser) and secondly because the second player (in Chess!...) will be always there threatening, he will never be really expelled to oblivience from the game of Chess but instead his (temporary) victories will be conceived as disastrous!...

 But I can not agree on the issue of the double-edged lightsabre, the so-called Sith lightsabre (and not only because of the famous/infamous use of it by Darth Maul!!...) or the corresponding pair of a light and a black-square(d) bishop!!! There are two reasons for this, the aforementioned sabre is just a weapon who should use -if available- any Jedi in need, so it's not to be guiltified as a Sith weapon just because of the tradition AND nobody should extend the aforementioned color correspondense to the squares of the chessboard also!!! White's King starts from a dark square and Black's from a light square but their pieces from squares of both color!... Neither White's 0-0 is an evil (or bad...) move in general and the same holds for White's 0-0-0 and Black's ...0-0 and ...0-0-0...

 And last but not least, many of us like women in red but also women in white, in blue or in black etc.

 I vote against arbitrary generalisations, extensions and prejudices!! Think about it please!

cgs: Thanks Dosy for these amusing games. It's an experience when the man could give checkmate with the "Light Brigade". In my first article i named it "Light Cavalry". (title of article: Hungarian miniature and only 11 moves)

And a very entertaining game it was, Csaba.  I had a good laugh at the mate.  I'd recommend everybody to go and play through this one .  It's on cgs's blog and it's lots of fun.

SonofPearl: Amusing little games!  Thanks for posting!

Thanks for reading!

Philip_Lu: Big blunders on both sides in the last game.

Ain't it the truth, though.  Of  course, with no blunders there'd be no brevities; and since I usually only publish brevities that'd mean no more Dozy's Inferno.   So let's raise a glass to the host of blunderers who give us all a good laugh.

mufasah123: Who would win in a game of three way chess, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, or Mace Windu?

I'm gunna skip an answer to that one mufasah123.  It's confession time, and I have to admit that I didn't see the last two Star Wars movies and have only vague recollections of Episode 1 (ie the fourth in the series). So Qui-Gon Jinn and Mace Windu are unknown to me. Even so, like yourself, I thought that the Force would lend itself to blindfold chess.

cuncatorg:  My opinion is that "the Bishop pair working in tandem" should being called "Sith Lightsabre"!

I was tempted to use White for the Jedi side of the Force and Black for the Dark side but since I needed the bishops to work together I couldn't do that.  I think to make your idea work we'd need to underpromote to a bishop so that the Sith light sabres would both be black. Maybe it'd look something like this:

Who would win in a game of three way chess*, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, or Mace Windu?  This is basically a continuation of the argument of the 2nd 3rd and 4th coolest jedi of all time (the coolest being yoda).

*Three way chess being the hard core jedi way of playing chess, along with blindfolds and using the force.

Big blunders on both sides in the last game.

Amusing little games!  Thanks for posting!

Thanks Dosy for these amusing games. It's an experience when the man could give checkmate with the "Light Brigade". In my first article i named it "Light Cavalry". (title of article: Hungarian miniature and only 11 moves)

 batgirl from North Carolina wrote:

Thanks. I really enjoyed that.

I could now call the Bishop Pair working in tandem, the Attack of the Light Brigade, but such a pun would be almost a Crime(a).

 My opinion is that "the Bishop pair working in tandem" should being called:

 "Sith Lightsabre"!!

 Over and out.

John_Strife: In that first game, shouldn't Obi-Wan be checkmated since, you know, he didn't exactly win they're lightsaber duel

I only went to see the first Star Wars movie because my youngest son wanted to see it but I was captivated by the way Alec Guinness played Obi-Wan -- and if I'd had my way he'd have won that fight. 

Now, 32 years later, I can make it up to him a little bit. 

As a matter of fact, John, I thought of the same thing when I was writing the post but, being an underdogger from way back, I decided to let the good guy win.