I agree with your point, artfizz... maybe chess.com will work on that in the future.

Samuel Beckett's play, 'Endgame' refers to the last part of a chess game, when there are very few pieces left. (The French title can be applied to games besides chess, and Beckett lamented the fact that there was no precise English equivalent). Beckett himself was known to be an avid chess player; the struggle of Hamm to accept the end can be compared to the refusal of novice players to admit defeat, whereas experts normally resign after a serious blunder or setback.

'...it's time it ended...and yet I hesitate, I hesitate to...to end.'

(Also, I've seen people, a pawn ahead, angry that I won't resign; that's different, they just don't like endgames ).

I was going to post this on the other thread, but figured I just get banned, hehe.

Didn't Beckett also write: Waiting for Godot (to move) ? Seems he must have done a fair amount of waiting.

What makes you confident you won't get banned from this one? Was it - or was it not -  Onosson who is quoted as saying: "Now, if you play straight with me you'll find me a considerate Topic Controller, but cross me and you'll find that under this playful boyish exterior beats the heart of a ruthless sadistic maniac."  http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eodyssey/Quotes/Popular/TV/Blackadder.html

Caravaggio's a good friend of mine - however, Artfizz, you're pushing me towards the dark side!  

Chess is like 'The Force': "it has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together."

I think that with too many "nots" in a sentence, some people go nuts and you end up with being seen as naughty or knotty which either way is difficult to untangle or unsnarl.

Quite so.

We wrote an error message into the language translator we once worked on:

         Not Not Not Allowed

- just so there was no confusion.

You might enjoy reading this, then:

http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/you-are-what-what-you-eat-eats/

No, didn't enjoy that one little bit. :)

It makes this seem trivially straightforward:

Not Not had 'not'. Not had 'not not'. Not Not had the right answer.

onnoson congratulations you are now BLOCKED!

artfizz . . . BLOCKED!

Onosson, may I add my congratulations: a chess.com first - blocked from your own thread.

I will savour this, the greatest of all chess.com victories!  Oh wait, how am I able to post here still?!

It seems fairly clear:

Blocked not allowed: you are allowed not blocked.

You are not not (I repeat: not) blocked.

Perhaps it's actually just the fact that he misspelled my name!

Anyways, my head is now in knots due to the nots!

      I am blocking myself from myself.  Finally, I am rid of my incessant blather.

Not sure what you are saying here as a double "not" or negation in a sentence is  an affirmative expression or sentence or proposition, so is the triple negation: "not" not an affirmative acceptance of the initial statement?

If not, I will add a 4 knot or not, a nut to try to clarify the naught statement.

In any eventuallity we might end up with nil, nix, nada, null, zero, zilchl or zip.

This is a real world nut's.

resigning is of chicks and babies

    "Nuts!", Gen. McCauliff.

Wait a minute, we're getting off subject. We really need a forum where people can share their feelings about the inhumanities of having to checkmate their opponent. 

forkypinner . . . BLOCKED!!