| Dec-15-14 | | Abdel Irada: What does the symbol in your avatar mean?
(And while I'm here: Welcome, and congratulations on your Holiday Clue success.) ∞ |
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Dec-15-14
 | | 7krzem7: Thank you. 卒 is a black pawn in Xiangqi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi. |
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| Dec-15-14 | | Abdel Irada: Chinese chess. I should have known that; I live in San Francisco, and see people playing it now and then. In fact, I've also downloaded a Xiangqi program, although I played it only once before the laptop I had it on was stolen. I may download it again on my new computer, but frankly, the program destroyed me with such dismaying celerity that I think it's too strong for me; I will lose, and not understand why. So: Time will tell.
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Dec-16-14
 | | Penguincw: Just dropping by to say hello, and also congratulating you on probably becoming the first user to ever solve 3 puzzles in a row. |
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Dec-16-14
| | 7krzem7: Thank you, <Penguincw>. |
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| Dec-16-14 | | Abdel Irada: It still amazes me that you've been here for four years, apparently in total stealth mode, and ex nihilo you have leapt onto the Holiday Clues leaderboard. Is this a prepared variation, Mr. Marshall? :-)
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Dec-17-14
| | 7krzem7: As you can see some clues weren't so difficult. It's a bit of luck, I think. |
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| Dec-17-14 | | Abdel Irada: Not so difficult for *you*, perhaps. For me they are quite impossible. :-S ∞ |
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| Dec-18-14 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Just curious: what is the origin of the '7krzem7' handle? Prawdopodobnie 7+7=14, czy tak? |
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Dec-18-14
| | 7krzem7: Polish word 'krzem' means 'silicon' in English.
I used it to be registered on some Polish chess site. The atomic number of silicon is 14, or 7+7. Actually, it's a random word. |
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| Dec-18-14 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Ok, I see. I thought you might be Polish... (I am), hence the last sentence of my post: <Prawdopodobnie 7+7=14, czy tak?> == <perhaps because 7+7=14, right?> |
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| Dec-14-15 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Congratulations on #18! You got it impressively quickly. |
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Dec-14-15
| | 7krzem7: Thank you, <MostlyAverageJoe>. Nice puzzle. |
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Dec-17-15
| | Penguincw: Another quick one (#32). I believe it only took you about 5 minutes to solve it. FTR, I wasn't even close, as I was looking up members of the Rush band. |
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| Dec-23-15 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Congratulations again on #56. Specializing in solving my clues, aren't you ?-) |
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Dec-23-15
| | 7krzem7: Thanks.
<Specializing in solving my clues, aren't you ?-)> Well, it seems so, although I'm just trying to solve some clues. |
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| Dec-13-18 | | centralfiles: So the answer to the clue was the simple punny Colonel Sam Flagg?????? There's an old page online titled "the colonel's chess page" created by a player in CG's database that just so happens to contain the phrase "your flag is down" in the few line of verse it has.
https://userpages.monmouth.com/~col... To quote:
<"I came in and walked around.
Somebody yelled, Your flag is down,
Mister Dzindzichashvili,
Mister Dzindzichashvili,
I wish somebody would tell me what Dzindzichashvili means!What, lost your Bishops,
You naughty fishops?
Then you shall have no play!">
This short page was created by Col.
George L Sicherman The chance of this being an unintentional random coincidence is about ZERO. |
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Dec-13-18
| | Penguincw: Checking in on you 4 years later, and you still got it! Congrats mate. :)(Santa Claus hunt) |
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