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    • Gentle Readers: Etiquette in Live Chess Games

      According to Wikipedia, etiquette “is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class or group.” More simply put, etiquette is a set of rules about... | Read More

      • groteskbold
      • | Nov 16, ‘10
      • | 1140 views
      • | 10 comments
    • Help! displaying games on a site

      Arrrggghhh! I'm so frustrated. I am hoping 1 million great brains on chess.com can help out. I am trying to turn annotated PGNs into "clickable" chess games to display on a Joomla web site. We started out using Chessflash (www.chessflash.com), wh... | Read More

    • "Oh, no! I have to play as black now?"

      Yes, indeed. Chess.com has changed the live chess game seeks so members can no longer specify color. Members can still select color when challenging an individual, just not when putting up a seek. Color in game seeks is now assigned randomly by th... | Read More

      • groteskbold
      • | May 11, ‘10
      • | 4822 views
      • | 67 comments
    • Useful responses to "Any hot girl want to play chess with me?"

      This question flies by at least once a day when I'm in live chess. By the time I see it the fourth time in an hour, I'm about ready for some wise-guy (or, more appropriately, "wise gal") answers. To that end, I offer the following, and invite you... | Read More

      • groteskbold
      • | Mar 16, ‘10
      • | 1111 views
      • | 9 comments
    • What's in a name?

      http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/akzidenz-grotesk-bq/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk Definition of the tyopographic term "grotesque" (or Grotesk): See "other names for sans-serif" in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... | Read More

    • Cheers to my British Buddies

      Here's what they're saying about you on our public radio http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=123202083&m=123202043 | Read More