New name suggestion for Lazy: 'Andelkrag'

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Eelco de Groot
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New name suggestion for Lazy: 'Andelkrag'

Post by Eelco de Groot »

You can move this over to the Kindergarten forum immediately, it was just something I thought about contemplating the recent events which, as ever, seem a little microcosm of the bigger world around us. Dim memories, because I no longer have the original Hal Foster Prince Valiant, at least I don't think so, but in this story there is a castle beleagured by Attila The Hun I think, and rather than giving themselves up, in the final day they lock up everyone not able to fight and set fire to the central tower. The white tower stands for the forum of course. Maybe this was also somehow where the White Tower of Tolkien came from? But in that case there were also real towers that were an inspiration to the story.

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"By perilous mountain paths I came at last to Andelkrag, the home of the warrior troubadours, where music and laughter were the rule, gentle manners and gracious living the law"

Ah, it seems my association has some base in history, I discovered there is a book about that, with the same illustration by Hal foster on the cover:
Andelkrag Castle, Minas Tirith, and Kospoda

de Joachim Schmidt
Sinopse

Andelkrag Castle and Minas Tirith are well known in the fantasy literature. This book explores the legends connected with these castles and traces them back to a real castle and a real story behind it. A thorough investigation allows to reconstruct how this real castle came into existence in an attempt to shelter Europe during the Hun attack, and what happens with the successful defenders after the Hun wars. Besides giving aid to the development of the eastern part of Europe during the Dark Ages, the castle ascended to prominence as the seat of the Duke of the Sorbs Dervanus, who sided with the Wends of eastern Europe to limit the aspirations of the King of the Francs Dagobert I to become the superior of all of Europe. From Dervanus emerged the nobility line of the de Kospod's. The traces of this family are further explored up to the present times.
Anyway, I thought it was a nice name for a not yet fully functional chess program, maybe some inspiration.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
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Re: New name suggestion for Lazy: 'Andelkrag'

Post by smatovic »

Maybe we need a modern "Siegfried", otherwise Etzel with his army will destroy the last remains of the TalkChess kingdom ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied

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PS: seriously, I think at some point the Boomer Gen has to hand over the keys of the TC forum to Gen Z, whatever implications this might bring, or alike.