Comments on: Too late with your Nxe3

By: Dave Wiggins

Dave Wiggins — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:34:47 +0000

Oh, and it’s 100% ‘gob’.

By: chedgzoy

chedgzoy — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:11:03 +0000

or even ‘you’re not like one of these..’

By: daz

daz — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:26:48 +0000

thought it was ..your not like one of these..

By: Mark Boyle

Mark Boyle — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:29:46 +0000

Regarding the topic of ‘Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess’ sounding like ‘Top Of The Pops’ by The Rezillos, since the chorus line of the Rezillos number is a rip-off from ‘Here We Go Loopy Loo’ (best known for being played ad nauseum on ‘Andy Pandy’ on the BBC) then Faye Fife and That Bloke That Looked Like An Ugly Bird That Later Joined The Human League haven’t got a lot to complain about.

So there!

By: Tumshie

Tumshie — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:06:04 +0000

@ shamou

Yes, we have played a few times, I think there may even have been a game I didn’t lose!

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:21:57 +0000

By the way, confirming “Nxe3″, NB57 said “I’m not really au fait with these things.”

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:27:35 +0000

As I lay semi-snoozing this morning, a R4 discussion of Zulu history on Mevyn Bragg’s programme saw mention of Cetshwayo, and it reminded me to google my suspicions that in fact Cetshwayo was in fact extremely miffed after Rourke’s Drift and that the Impis’ noble sporting gesture at the end of the film ‘Zulu’ is a myth which didn’t happen. The British, too, were extremely bad victors (or bad losers, having had 1,300 men massacred the day before at Isandlwana).

“Both the Zulus and the British were so battle-weary after a long night of bloody, hand to hand combat, that when the Zulus saw Lord Chelmsford’s column coming along the route from Isandhlwana the next day, they retreated from the post …” [otherwise with British ammunition very low they would have attacked again and probably won].

“It is true that the opening battles of the war – Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift and Nyezane – did give both the British and Zulu a new-found respect for each other’s fighting capabilities. But the aftermath of Rorke’s Drift was a good deal less romantic. When the battle was over, the British garrison and relief column went over the field, and shot or bayoneted all the [several hundred at least ] wounded Zulu they found there.”

(both quotes from rourkesdriftvc.com)

Cetshwayo got a right cob on. Proper seething he was. Like Alex Ferguson when he doesn’t get enough injury time. The furious tit-for-tat masacres continued until Cetshwayo was captured a few months later.
He still had a right cob on when he met Gladstone in exile in London about 10 years later. A proper bad loser in yahoo massacres.

By: LondonDan

LondonDan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:35:53 +0000

I always heard it as ‘N at g3′ implying that Mr Bell (presumably playing black) had his knight there ready to launch an attack, but was foiled by Nigel’s cheeky counter checkmate and I still do. But then, I don’t have much of a life.

By: Charles Exford

Charles Exford — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:14:56 +0000

You got me there Dennis – let me know if you fancy a bout any time, by the way.

By: Max Williams

Max Williams — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:19:29 +0000

This made me a little sad – overheard in a sandwich shop on the way to work this morning. Two late-forties blokes, one says to the other “we call him half man half biscuit, you know, like that band from the eighties, do you remember?”

I wanted to correct him but didn’t.