User Profile: Domdaniel

Domdaniel
Member since Aug-11-06 · Last seen May-21-13

A distinct aroma of burning prevails. Fire and brimstone, probably, or one of the charred and singed chess sets in my possession.
*Empty Space*
I don't exist.
Just like the Urban Spaceman.
I am deeply suspicious of 'social media'. I don't want my computer to think it knows my 'preferences', and I don't want my personal details passed from hand to invisible hand, or soul to poison soul. But I'm sufficiently open-minded -- or innocent -- to trust in the integrity of Chessgames.com, and the good people who run it.
Note: some folk may be more familiar with the kind of bio/profile that goes "Muh name is Peregrine Ng and ah play Bullet at PhyringRange.com and ah come to CG for thuh crab sandwiches..." ... sort of thing.
This isn't one of those. In fact, it was never really *written* at all ... more like 'left behind' after repeated moves. The fragments that remain intact have withstood years of deletions. Quite like me, really.
"A medium amputates the organ it extends".
- Marshall McLuhan
"I go without saying".
- Me, or somebody like me.
<The Game and Playe of Cheffe ...>
"Chess is a sea in which a shark can persuade a seagull to eat its skin parasites..."
"Chess is the art of cartesian coordinates with obsessive compulsive disorder..."
"Chess is the science of naughty molecules."
"Chess is sport for the disembodied."
"It is what it is."
"Except when it isn't."
<'His calmness, his authority in all circumstances! In a chess game he would win everything, merely by his nerves.' 'But he was not playing chess,' Smiley objected drily.>
(John Le Carré)
I'll say it again, though I can't recall saying it before: < Empathy is essential to any kind of intelligence worth having.> Although I seem to have some kind of attention surplus disorder.
On planet Earth (where most chess games so far are believed to have been played - Science Officer Chamitoff vs NASA Ground Control, 2008 and Soyuz 9 Cosmonauts vs Ground Control, 1970 are among the exceptions):
1. Brian Eno:
"Another green world."
2. William Burroughs:
"I don't want love - I don't want forgiveness - all I want is *outta here* --"
<A Phormer Phrontistery ... Frogspawn ... 20,000 Lashes ... A Phrontistery ... Phrogspawn ... Philoxenia ... Antarctica Starts Here ... Epigamic Ephebes ... Waxwing's Wah-wah Rabbits ... Opposition & Sister Squares ... Cosy Moments will not be Muzzled ...>
A dictionary helps. As does Modern Chess Openings. Encyclopedias, whether wiki, text-based or fictional, have their place. But for a good knight's sleep try a bed, futon, hammock or some of my writing. Avoid Gerry McCarthy
"Brutality is out of date."
- Aron Nimzowitsch
"Keep violence in the mind where it belongs."
- B.W. Aldiss
"Combinations and chemistry are your only men."
- Er, <me>?
<"I used to be somebody else, but I traded him in."> M. Antonioni
"Chess is a marvelous piece of Cartesianism, and so imaginative that it doesn't even look Cartesian." - Marcel Duchamp
[reconstruction always in progress, please excuse noise, no refunds, no discounts, no hawkers, no spitting]
So what am I doing here? Simple: I like to play *with* chess...
<Writing, unlike chess, is a victimless crime.>
"J'ai une maladie: je vois le langage."
- Roland Barthes
<More First Person Gibberish>:
Fischer-Dylan Syndrome: <"You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way">.
Favorite Opening: The French, naturellement. After 30-odd years, I think I'm starting to understand its benthic deeps. Well, I had it for a moment ... seems to be gone again.
Basta. Enough chess, it makes my head spin. Anyone who has lingered in my forum (Frogspawn, Philoxenia, 20,000 Lashes, Antarctica Starts Here, usw) knows that much of the conversation isn't about chess at all, or even lingerie. I'm interested in *stuff* -- arts and sciences, shoos and sheeps and ceiling wicks, kibitzers and King Kong vs Gojiro in Dronning Maud Land. I like to make connections. I like people who make connections.
Bad puns, bad languages, bad breathing, bad breeding, psychological insights, literary allusions, surrealist manifestos, or the sound of one hand stentorating. I'm not going to name any of the people who make CG so much fun. You know who you are, O my droogs and Zapkinder.
One last chess snippet. I have never, in my entire life, played either side of a Spanish/Ruy Lopez in a serious game. I'm a Spanish Virgin. There, you knew I was a pervert, didn't you?
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<From <Gravity's Rainbow> by Thomas Pynchon:
"Queen, Bishop and King are only splendid cripples, and pawns, even those that reach the final row, are condemned to creep in two dimensions, and no Tower will ever rise or descend -- no: flight has been given only to the Springer!">
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Whatever you find in books, leave it there.
- John Cale
Know anything about chess? It can be a virtual life work, and what is it to absorb all a man's thought and energy? - William Burroughs
I am not the only one who writes in order to have no face. - Michel Foucault
ChessGames.com Statistics Page
Biographer Bistro
CG Librarian chessforum
User: chessgames.com
PGN Upload Utility
Chessgames Present Hunt Clues Page
FEN reverser (courtesy of <ajile>): http://www.zbestvalue.com/ChessFENR...
OlimpBase (courtesy of Wojtek Bartelski, aka User: OlimpBase): http://www.olimpbase.org/
Some *other* databases include:
http://www.365chess.com/
http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSea...
http://www.newinchess.com/NicBase/D...
ChessBookForum chessforum
Chessgames Present Hunt Clues Page
Search Kibitzing
A statistical analysis by Jeff Sonas (thanks to <BadKnight> for bringing it to my attention): http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...

FIN de Partie

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   May-21-13 Annie K. chessforum

Domdaniel: "Too many sam cooks spoil the euphoria", eh? Hi, A. I've been offline so long it feels like up to me ... um, I mean it feels normal. Takes time to readjust, but I'll get back in the cg swing of things eventually.

   May-21-13 Domdaniel chessforum

Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Yes indeed. I suggest Equations of Life, and Theories of Flight by Simon Morden, plus a couple of later sequels.

   Mar-27-13 Carlsen vs Gelfand, 2013

Domdaniel: < "things should start to get interesting right about now". > The Mississippi Gambit?

   Mar-25-13 Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2013

Domdaniel: <Phony Benoni> Lasker wasn't *that* old in 1914, and still had a few years to go as world champion. Unlike, I suppose, Anand ...

   Mar-19-13 Radjabov vs Kramnik, 2013

Domdaniel: More weak than strong, I think, Perf. But not catastrophically so.

   Mar-07-13 Bunratty Masters (2013)

Domdaniel: <perf> True. Maybe next year...

   Jan-29-13 chessgames.com chessforum

Domdaniel: < don't forget to make sure somebody annoying shows > Did somebody call?

   Jan-24-13 Wang Hao vs Carlsen, 2013

Domdaniel: Carlsen's style is perfectly suited to the current form of a GM chess game -- all in one session, stamina required for endings and semi-endings. He's very good at the transition from middlegame to endgame. In previous generations, we saw Tal's talent for first-session ...

   Jan-21-13 Neberman vs Silbermann, 1902

Domdaniel: Hobbesian: "nasty, brutish and short". Milorad Nastic , Brutus (Computer) , & R Short ... ?

   Jan-18-13 Anand vs Nakamura, 2013

Domdaniel: <sharky> Je t'aime aussi, <teh Fernch>.

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May-28-12		OhioChessFan: Gaslaxy sounds like a dreadful medicine they added to coke.

May-28-12		hms123: <OCF> Yeah, what's his chess rating? Besides, if he's so smart, why ain't he rich? Yours, A. Murrican

May-28-12		Domdaniel: < Gaslaxy sounds like a dreadful medicine they added to coke.> Oops. It's gaslaxative, man. Not to be confused with a terrible song by 1960s folkie Donovan, called 'The Inter-galactic Laxative'.

May-28-12		Domdaniel: Fascinating other news items in that Huffpost link. Miami cops shoot naked face-eating cannibal. Mermaid gives birth. Canadian study shows that people who go with 'gut feelings' are less inclined to be religious. All quasi-human life is there.

May-28-12		frogbert: it's been one week since last time i left any electronic ink here... hms123 and dom, forgot about the team game already? ;o)

May-29-12		Domdaniel: <frogbt> It's not exactly forgetting, more a lurch towards passivity. Which is technically risky, because if I lurch in that general direction too often somebody could have me classified as 'dead'. Which I'm not, currently, subjectively, in my own opinion.

May-29-12		hms123: <frogbert> I am paying pretty close attention, but haven't had much to add since some of my team-mates are doing a fabulous job. ;-) I will jump back in at some point soon.

May-29-12		MarkFinan: Hi Dom, long time no ask a stupid question to, ey? (20 steps!!! BTW I was thinking of Sultan Khan the chess player, not the crazy guy with an army, but even so.... LOL! ) Well I have a few questions from a friend of a friend of a friend, and I need an Intelligent, honest, current chess tourney playing, streetwise-ish, Brit to give me an answer (<Meme> was unavailable for comment ;) ).. Okay... If You personally wanted to buy 30 chess boards and sets, and 30 analogue chess clocks, not knocked off, all at once In bulk, not second hand, and not top of the range stuff, but not rock bottom tat either, where would you look to begin with? Ebay? Do you have any contacts you personally could go to? If you had 24 hours to buy the aforementioned 'equipment' where would you go first?? And more Importantly.... How much would you be looking at In English £££'s ?? Any good advice and help, and I'd be grateful mate... Just thought I'd throw the question out there to an active british player :)..

May-29-12		Domdaniel: <Mark> Funnily enough, somebody asked me the same question a couple of weeks ago -- a friend who'd never had anything to do with the chess 'scene', but thought I'd know where to get such things. And, uh, I don't. Not really. I don't buy stuff through ebay, so I can't vouch for it personally. I do know that most sales of legit chess stuff -- boards, clocks, books, DVDs, etc - tends to be handled now by specialist chess dealers. So, In the UK, I'd probably start with the London Chess Centre, who have a shop in Baker St with large supplies of everything chess-related - http://www.chess.co.uk/ I haven't been to the shop since they moved from Euston last year, but the same people still run it (and publish CHESS magazine). As for the clocks, it should be possible to get a good deal on analog clocks somewhere, with so many clubs and congresses and even individuals switching to digital. (I have three chess clocks -- a bog-standard analog model 'borrowed' from a club and never returned, a better quality one 'borrowed' from a 'friend' and, well, uh, we sort of lost contact ... and a digital one I actually paid cash for. Nobody was taking my credit by then.)

May-29-12		MarkFinan: Hi Dom, and thanks for that link.. I wish I could get the clocks who you got your first two from though, lol.. Iv'e been looking for over a week now at vinyl roll out boards and other cheap stuff, but I don't want that, so thought I'd ask active players here too because they know more about the chess tourney scene than I sure do.. I'll just have a look around, because even though I admittedly still know dodgey people, even they won't come up with chess clocks when I look In the back of their van's!! Iv'e just had an Idea thats kinda grown legs over the last few week, and I could get the sets themselves, but they'd be "seconds", plus I'd have a good Idea where they came from!!! So that's definately a No-No... I'll ask Mark Crowther by email, we're from the same city, and Iv'e already done my homework (Or my girlfriend has, bless her) on everything else I'd need to hold an unrated event.. Just need the pieces now :) BTW.. If this turns out like <TheFocus>'s book, or <LMAJ>'s students, please feel free to mock me like I have them Lol.. Cheers Dom..

May-30-12		Octavia: <much as it pains me to admit that a ... bunch of juvenile not-quite-delinquents should have any kind of advantage in any area.> I suppose you've often been losing to youngsters? Me too! I used to think it's only at the lower end of comps this happens until I looked around! They've got the great advantage of having their bums wiped by ceilous mums & don't have to devote time to the art of living. But I like beating them : ) One of them answered your rant : <we like you too> lol

May-30-12		Domdaniel: <Mark> Good luck with your organizational plans ... if you're in touch with Mark Crowther you can't go far wrong. I don't know him, but by all accounts he's one of the good guys. There are a few slight differences between chess tournaments in Ireland and England. Venues, for one thing -- it's been normal here for years to hold weekend congresses in hotels, but this is only catching on in the UK now. I suppose Ireland had more hotels looking for customers once the tourist season was over, and attracted by the idea of guests who rarely left the building and used the bar and restaurant a lot between rounds. Which in turn meant players travelling from England and elsewhere to sample the 'atmosphere' at events like Bunratty. Sean Hewitt of <e2e4>, who runs events in Britain and Ireland, gave this recent interview to Chessbase: http://e2e4.org.uk/brighton/Feb2012...

May-30-12		Domdaniel: <Meme> I see somebody addressed you as 'Memet' on another page, which is amusing in a way ... but I thought I'd better keep my own comments for here. I've always read it as Meme-the-Cat, which seems the 'obvious' way of breaking it down (if you know what memes and cats are, and have met a definite article or two). But 'Memet' also makes sense. One of my weird dictionaries tells me that 'Hecat' was a mysterious goddess (Shakespeare spelled it Hecate). And 'Memet' -- like Mamet, Mammet, Mommet, Mummet, Mahomet (etc) was one of a large number of English names for demons, all based on warped versions of the name of the prophet. So 'Memet Hecat' has real demonic cred. Niel Dom, D.A.

May-30-12		frogbert: dom da niel is in da house!

May-31-12		Memethecat: Memet is a latin pronoun meaning "me myself" or "myself", & Hecat(e) is the name given to me by the ancient Greeks, they worshipped me as an extremely powerful and benevolent goddess, identified with three other goddesses—Selene (in heaven), Artemis (on earth), and Persephone (in the underworld). I was often depicted as a figure with three bodies or three heads. Generally I was identified as a spirit of black magic, with the power to conjure up dreams, phantoms, and the spirits of the dead. After an eternity (have you any idea how long that is?) of Godding I got bored, took the form of a human & reinvented myself as Meme-the-cat. The operations (all done on the NHS, thank me) have left their scars, but it was worth it. Occasionally I miss the power to conjure up dreams, but at least I don't have to be so bloody benevolent all the time.

Jun-01-12		Domdaniel: <Memet> Yes, benevolence gets to be as dull as Paradise after a while. Or like the Friday-afternoon feeling in suburbia in the temperate zone of an oxygen planet. Tedious places, oxygen planets. The natives are so ... combustible ... and yet the fun of causing them to combust soon wears off.

Jun-01-12		Memethecat: Dom, are you making sure to vary the temperature? I've found the trick is to treat it like crop rotation, maybe a bit of water boarding, the occasional acid bath, some mild throttling. If all else fails, there's always the music of Annie Lennox, be sure to cover your own ears though, no telling what damage even a few notes can do to somebody that hasn't had the right training.

Jun-02-12		Memethecat: “But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”

Jun-03-12		Memethecat: No sign of you today Dom, expect your out celebrating the Queens Jubilee, 60yrs. Not 100% sure but, I think its known as the Rohypnol Jubilee, to signify the fact that the whole country has been @#$%ed, yet isn't quite sure if it was just a dream or it really happened.

Jun-03-12		Open Defence: Yosef Porat

Jun-07-12		frogbert: dom, did you get a day job, or is it even worse? nearly getting worried here...

Jun-07-12		Memethecat: Shame your not around Dom, I've got my 1st ever match later today, looking at my opp's previous I see he's a dedicated follower of frogspawnaphilia, thought I could pick your grey matter as to most uncomfortable white line (not that sort) against le french. Probably gonna try 2.Qe2 Chigorin, in the hope it puts him of his stride.

Jun-12-12		mworld: Dom, Congratulations on your recent Wedding, Job, or funerary tax exemption. Hope you are enjoying the change of pace either way =]

Jun-21-12		dakgootje: According to google, he has become an Australian politician. Can't argue with google. -- 3 weeks is a long time to change pace though. I'd get quite tired after the first day or so. Pacing in itself is fairly energy-consuming - let alone when you have to change your rhythm every other random time-interval. ps: Couldn't they make 'rhythm' a bit easier to write?

Jun-21-12		Annie K.: <dakkie> I'd reckon yer clue is probaby here: Domdaniel chessforum

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