dnleary wrote:
The NN's ^
I am slightly disturbed....
Who is N.N?
Sort:
Usually NN is someone who played in a simul against a GM
My father always used to say he felt sorry for whomever was being referred to when old war movie characters would shout "fire at Will!"
Lousy wrote:
Who is this NN?
no name,
numb nutz
Nicely Noted
chesse_chames wrote:
Lousy wrote:
Who is this NN?
no name,
numb nutz
Acronym of the message:
NN,
NN
Edit: What the heck, I'm addicted to explaining.
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billyjoe3125 wrote:
Usually NN is someone who played in a simul against a GM
** Bump **
(For futher valuable vocabulary expansion one could do worse than visit the word association threads like wayne 79#2... they are far from merely being spam)
Neologist Narration
I believe it to be software someone invented...
I laughed the whole way down this thread.
Loomis wrote:
Actually, NN stands for No Name, indicating an anonymous opponent. I figured the original post was a joke, but thank you Reservesmonkey for misleading everybody.
Although NN is sometimes believed to stand for "no name", that is a misconception: it is in fact an abbreviation of the Latin nomen nescio which means 'I do not know the name.'
NN = No Name!
laughed so hard 
Maybe, just maybe, it's short for Na Na, Na Na, Na Na, Na Na, Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye.....
NN in chess stands for nomen nescio and refers to an anonymous or unnamed opponent..and he did win some games against famous grandmasters like philidor
NN stands for No Nothing! 
He's the worst player in the history of chess. That NN guy has never won a single game.
Lennoy wrote:
NN in chess stands for nomen nescio and refers to an anonymous or unnamed opponent..and he did win some games against famous grandmasters like philidor
Interesting, I always assumed it stood directly for "No Name". But these English words are derived from Latin anyway, so my assumption was almost correct.
Awwwwww.... I really wanted to read that one....