dakgootje Member since Aug-04-05 Mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet Folge dem Wege geradeaus, meide die Tiefen des Meeres, doch hab ich solch Wort hinter mir gelassen. Der Mond scheinet auf jedem Wege, wie die, in der Dunkelheit, wie Diamanten schwimmenden Fische; heiss wie durch Zufall Mensch - und hier bin ich. Was hatte ich zu befurchten, mit was zu kampfen, bald ist es Zeit die Lasten zu legen. Erteile mir noch mehr Kraft, Kraft zur Liebe. Mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet, mir ist bewusst was Freiheit bedeutet. --- Bio as it used to be: <I dont have any favorite players normally, though Josef Emil Krejcik is brilliant =) call me dakgootje, dakkie, dak, gootje or whatever you like ;-) Lack any opening knowledge and thus improvise them quite often. well not always, i know some basic e4-openings... But i improvise on d4, sicilian, kings gambit and uhm caro kann and philidor and english etc etc etc =P but hey, i do know some of the names! =) Improved a lot on openings lately, keep that in mind if you ever play versus me =P There are three sides to every story-- yours, mine, and the truth Still dont know what to studie next year but "you should view higher education as more of a matter for your self-development, rather than as training for a specific job." (quote-credits to mojo) Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me as a friend.> Docendo disco, scribendo cogito My forum name is actually a reference to a childrens song: <Oh Children, hear the Geese, its cry will make you shiver. For yet it knows that we will feas' on tasty meat, and its liver.> Cheers ^^ NOTE: I will not accept any fights, drama, name-calling and similar in my chessforum. They will all be deleted, no exceptions and no warnings. As it seems, there are other places to do such things.

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May-18-13 Domdaniel chessforum    ...      May-17-13 dakgootje chessforum    dakgootje: You can say that again :P I would've actually done swimmingly if Svidler-Karjakin had ended a draw. But that was a bit optimistic given it was some crazy game. And apparently riddled with blunders. It goes without saying this was according to our good friends the Engines - and ...      May-15-13 Annie K. chessforum    dakgootje: I thought Carlsen was quite overvalued actually. Had him winning down as only slightly favorite - perhaps 55% or something. Sooo with only slightly over half the times him being expected to win, I thought there was some massive value there. And there undoubtedly was. Even with ...      May-15-13 brankat chessforum    dakgootje: Come on Hammer.. that was not cool. Just cost me 3.5k right there.      May-03-13 chessgames.com chessforum    dakgootje: Insomuch that politics consists of deaf man screaming at each other.      Apr-22-13 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    dakgootje: <ALERT> It appears round 2 of Alekhine Memorial started just now [aka: 1 hour pre chessbookie closing] .      Apr-05-13 technical draw chessforum    dakgootje: <Yes, there is fluctuation. Usually in the morning real, easing up during the day, and bad at night. So I take the antipsy (zyprexa) in the late evening. And also day to day fluctuation .> At least that's good news. Alzheimer's tends to be more stable and slowly progressive;      Mar-13-13 SwitchingQuylthulg chessforum    dakgootje: <You'll also have to sign a couple documents> Mostly involving the ownership of your life-savings in case of any accidents.      Mar-11-13 playground player chessforum    dakgootje: As are all of Miyazaki's other films :) Came across his works several years ago - and I must say it was quite an eye-opener. Really shows the quality of anime isn't in the animation, but in the story. I remember a French animation of a shadow-play. I didn't understand half of it ...      Mar-05-13 hms123 chessforum    dakgootje: So matted elk have the same age as dogs?

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 92 OF 126 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-17-12    dakgootje: ;) I've been watching some shows by Dylan Moran lately - who happens to be a brilliant comedian. Certainly one of my favorites. Anyway, his shtick is that he seems a bit tipsy or drunk. So that state allows him to be a bit loud, make illogic generalizations and be in a perpetual state of bewilderment and slight anger. He mastered it brilliantly. So I figured I'd give it a swing as well with my previous post :P Apr-17-12    Memethecat: <dak> Dylan Moran's stand-up stuff is hilarious. He made a sit-com a few years back with the same character, (I assume its a made up persona for comedy effect) it was called Black Books & was OK but nowhere near as good as his live stuff, IMO. Still, if your a fan you might like it. Bill Bailey another very funny comic/musician was in it too. Apr-17-12    dakgootje: I've actually seen the whole black books series :) think about 2 years ago. You are quite right - overall thought it was good.. but his stand-up is undoubtedly much better. I've seen Bill Bailey in quiz-shows, where he is hilarious - not a big fan of his stand up work though :\ By the way, his 4 shows are viewable full-length at youtube [whereas previously only bits and pieces could be found] http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBaro... One of the shows.. 'Yeah Yeah' I think is blocked for me, though it is also on.. youku I think. Anyway, one of those chinese videosites which doesn't seem to care about copyright, readable interfaces or -indeed- anything else. Apr-20-12    dakgootje: ha! there are apparently games going on in Dubai! Also Van Wely lost to some 2400-guy, but I guess that's no news. Apr-21-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: Yes, anybody can beat Van Wely, and Van Wely can beat anybody :) Apr-22-12    dakgootje: figured it was time to really start the leg with some properly sized bets. Let's just say I crashed. And burned. Apr-22-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: Look on the bright side - plenty of time to mount a comeback :) Apr-23-12    dakgootje: sure - I just gave myself a bit of a challenge ;D Apr-23-12    dakgootje: I'm a bit in doubt.. Got 86% for a methodics exam. Which is uncommonly high in general - and considering it's in the masters-phase, you can square that uncommonly high. Thing is. I understood the matter very well indeed and the only mistakes can really be due to oversights or perhaps forgetting to consider some detail. So I expected something like 93%, give or take some percent. And I'm a bit disappointed. So I'm still debating whether to be just happy with the 86, or ask to see which mistakes I made. Which seems a bit perfectionistic and silly. heh, spoke two fellow students today who thought they'd done okayish - and they had 53 and 62, so I had already lowered my expectations a bit ;) Apr-23-12    hms123: <dak> Be very happy with 86 and also ask to see what mistakes you made. Who knows? You might learn an extra little tidbit. Just make sure the prof knows that you are very happy with the score and not being a silly perfectionist. "I guess I could add a few more points....Oh no! No need for that...I am just here to learn." Apr-23-12    dakgootje: heh probably the best idea - I'll do that :) Apr-24-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: <lucky> Good luck for round 3 of Kramnik-Aronian :) Doesn't look as if you crashed after all... Apr-24-12    dakgootje: not? there were only 4 sides, and I lost twice the amount of my max-bet :P of course, absolutely seen, a loss of roughly 400 isn't that huge. Apr-24-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: I was expecting to see you at -500 :) Apr-24-12    dakgootje: heh, then I've should've max-bet all normal sides and have something like 900 in the pick-3 [on a 4k handle]. And lose all ;) heh, would've been a major challenge to lose that much ;D Apr-25-12    dakgootje: unless the odds change a lot in the last 30 minutes, there'll be no bets for me today Been a bit quiet with big superGM-tournaments lately. Either a superGM one-on-one like aronian kramnik or the upcoming anand-gelfand; or large opens with fairly few 2700+. Must've been months since I could bet on Carlsen murdering his opponents. :( Apr-27-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: <dakkie> Good luck for round 5! Maybe you should help sponsor some supertournaments (with your university's money of course) :) Apr-30-12    dakgootje: ha! well, free day today to celebrate Queens day [that is: birthday of the belated queens-mum] Better try and finish a GTM-game I started.. when the year was still new and layered beneath chili-ice. May-01-12    dakgootje: well, had an appointment to look into my 86%-exam today. Turns out I had indeed made it almost flawlessly. Except for the very last question, which I had misread and only scored 2/10. So had I scored that one on par with the other questions, I'd have had around 92%, which is practically what I had expected up front. So yeah, mainly gave it away on 1 question. Which is a shame, but it's good to see I indeed understood almost everything and had a correct assessment of my own understanding. So I left quite satisfied :) ps: most other missed points where indeed oversights; assuming some ideas were self-evident whereas I should've just completely written them out. May-01-12    hms123: <dak> All's well that ends well. May-05-12    SwitchingQuylthulg: More tasty betting action today! Time for you to uncrash maybe? :) May-05-12    dakgootje: Ah! Terrific! :) I'm certainly planning to uncrash :) May-05-12    dakgootje: oh - no pick-3 :( May-05-12    dakgootje: Actually - I took quite a fancy to crashing. Think I'll try it some more. May-09-12    dakgootje: Upsets aren't really doing well in the Capablanca-tournament. Hope for some better luck at the US-championship :) Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 126) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 92 OF 126 ·  Later Kibitzing>		Advertise on Chessgames.com

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