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Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I just wanted to say hi.

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Originally posted by Duncan8th
Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I just wanted to say hi.
Welcome! You've picked the best site to play chess. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Doug

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Originally posted by Duncan8th
Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I just wanted to say hi.
Yes, hello and welcome 🙂

Andrew

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Originally posted by Duncan8th
Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I just wanted to say hi.
Welcome aboard Duncan!🙂

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Originally posted by Duncan8th
Hi everyone. I'm new here, and I just wanted to say hi.
welcome duncan!

🙂

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aye laddie... and with a name like Duncan, it's us who be thinkin' ye be scottish? will check out your profile later. Might we enquire the meanin' o' the "8th"? Mike

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Hey, Welcome to the greatest chess site in the would!
glad to have you here and if you what I'd be glad to have a game with you😀

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Originally posted by StarValleyWy
aye laddie... and with a name like Duncan, it's us who be thinkin' ye be scottish? will check out your profile later. Might we enquire the meanin' o' the "8th"? Mike
Thx for all the welcomes!

Sorry, I'm not scottish, but I love Scotland, beautiful country. Duncan is a character from my favorite book series, and there were several generations of him, so I chose the eighth one.

And Uncle Adam, I'll take u up on that offer.

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Originally posted by Duncan8th
Thx for all the welcomes!

Sorry, I'm not scottish, but I love Scotland, beautiful country. Duncan is a character from my favorite book series, and there were several generations of him, so I chose the eighth one.

And Uncle Adam, I'll take u up on that offer.
yup-scotland is a beautiful country...what's thebook series?

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Originally posted by genius
yup-scotland is a beautiful country...what's thebook series?
Dune. He's referring to Duncan Idaho, the long-suffering servant to the Atreides. What a great series!

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Originally posted by bbarr
Dune. He's referring to Duncan Idaho, the long-suffering servant to the Atreides. What a great series!
You are totally right. I didn't like the movie as much though. Did you? Frank Herbert hosted a tv series for a while in 1955-56 called "science fiction theatre"... i used to walk three miles to a friends house every wednesday after school to watch it. we didn't have a tv at the time. And... he was also one of the four 'Poker Players' with Heinlein, Ellison and Ron Hubbard on the night the three ganged up on Hubbard and bet him he couldn't form a religion that would have a million members within a decade. Hubbard won the bet, founding "the church of Scientology"... snicker, snicker... Heinlein never would pay the bet, Ellison did and Herbert just laughed at them all. He (Herbert) incorporated much religious undertone into Dune. Great science fiction.

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Yep. Dune be the series.

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Would that be Harlan Ellison?

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Originally posted by royalchicken
Would that be Harlan Ellison?
Pardon?

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StarValleyWy said "Heinlein, ELLISON,...". Incidentally, if you want to talk sci-fi, send a game to Warspite, if he's still on.