Why thank you! I have always appreciated bad puns (the only sort that are good!). And yeah, my screen name comes from chess, and is a German word (I enjoy chess though haven't played as much of late, sadly). I took German for 2 years in high school and a couple of years in college, really liked it! I actually got halfway decent at being able to read it reasonably well and even carry on an OK conversation. But that was MANY years ago, I've forgotten a lot of that by now!