User Profile: domdaniel

Domdaniel
Member since Aug-11-06 · Last seen Jun-18-13

A distinct aroma of burning prevails. Fire and brimstone, probably, or one of the charred and singed chess sets in my possession.
Update, mid-2013. I've bought a new wooden board and set, and got rid of the burnt ones. Time to move on from conflagrations past.
*Empty Space*
Update, 2013. 'Empty Space' is also a brilliant novel by M.John Harrison, 3rd in the Kefahuchi trilogy.
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
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A statistical analysis by Jeff Sonas (thanks to <BadKnight> for bringing it to my attention): http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...

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   Jun-18-13 Domdaniel chessforum

Domdaniel: <A> Yep, e4 is like voting -- for full democratic effect, vote early and vote often.

   Jun-18-13 Annie K. chessforum

Domdaniel: <A> True. And I also had problems locating the Harrison books here in Ireland. About a year ago I was told that Nova Swing was out of print, and nobody seemed to know if it would be reprinted to accompany the 3rd volume, Empty Space. Then last month I saw Empty Space on the ...

   Jun-18-13 Mamedyarov vs Caruana, 2013

Domdaniel: <whiteshark> -- <I'm routing for white.> You were more likely "rooting", in the American sense of the verb. Though one must be careful -- 'to root' means to 'search for' in British English, and refers to a sexual act in Australian English. Only Americans use it to mean

   Jun-18-13 Nakamura vs D Andreikin, 2013

Domdaniel: <Ezzy> I respectfully disagree. We've seen a lot of games between Carlsen and Anand, and we'll probably see more before the year is out. Their game today may be dominated by a mutual wish to conceal opening preparation. On the other hand, Nakamura is playing well and ...

   Jun-17-13 Caruana vs Nakamura, 2013

Domdaniel: Impressive play by Nak.

   Jun-15-13 Carlsen vs Caruana, 2013

Domdaniel: The years from 1975 to 2005 were dominated by players whose names began with K. Now the future belongs to the Cars -- Carlsen, Caruana, and, um, Carjakin.

   Jun-14-13 Kramnik vs Nakamura, 2013

Domdaniel: 44.Bd2 b2 wins, no?

   Jun-14-13 Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2013

Domdaniel: Karjakin's Qa1 looks dangerous. One threat is Qa8-h8, with Qa7 if the black Queen occupies the 8th rank.

   Jun-13-13 Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2013

Domdaniel: I'd have resigned several moves ago. But maybe we should all follow Kramnik's example and play on in such positions. Where there's life, there's hope...

   Jun-12-13 Tal Memorial (2013)

Domdaniel: <Brankat> Good point about the value of learning Russian. After all, Fischer didn't sit on his zhopu.

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Jun-03-13		Tiggler: <Domdaniel: <Tiggler> /snip/ There is, perhaps, a mean to which we all regress in the end ...> This terminology is part of our daily speech now, but I think was it first introduced by Francis Galton (about 1880), who was the first to apply statistics in what we now call the social sciences. He was considering the question of why human (or other animal) attributes show some stable clustering about the mean, instead of just diverging indefinitely. The use of the odd term "regression" for finding best-fit lines also originates from his work.

Jun-03-13		Domdaniel: Galton was a true eccentric -- quite an achievement in 19th century England, when eccentricity was almost a norm. Among other things, he used to award 'beauty points' to every woman he met, and carried a device for recording these scores.

Jun-04-13		Domdaniel: < "Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!">

Jun-04-13		Tiggler: Nimzovitch's lamentation: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Jun-04-13		dakgootje: < "Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!"> I tend to lose for the sole purpose of being able to claim that exclamation whenever I encounter the Nimzo-Indian. That is, I would if I'd ever encounter it. As it stands I am more often faced with first moves like h3 and h6. Which implies a certain extrapostavantmodernganza which perpetrators would casually remark German is too 19th-century for them - before walking away like nothing happened. As it stands, I don't meet such people either.

Jun-07-13		Domdaniel: <dak> -- < a certain extrapostavantmodernganza > Hmmm. Why don't I believe you?

Jun-07-13		dakgootje: Beats me.

Jun-07-13		Alien Math: Have not find the books yet from any place, read The Host book and thought it was good, appears a simple medical note in the book, are only complaint of

Jun-09-13		Domdaniel: "My rag! Cry! Retch..." Heh.

Jun-09-13		Domdaniel: One of the books I mentioned was Nova Swing by M.John Harrison, 2nd vol of the Light/ Empty Space trilogy. I havta admit that I haven't actually read this one, tho' I've read its brilliant predecessor, Light, and the successor, Empty Space (2013). I've ordered a copy of Nova Swing thru a bookshop, and it keeps being mysteriously delayed. Last week they called to say it should be there in 24 hrs, then they phoned back to say it hadn't arrived, and did I want a refund? Strange.

Jun-09-13		Annie K.: Hmm. I think I'll try to find the series around here. You got me curious. :)

Jun-09-13		Domdaniel: Iain Banks, a truly great writer, has died at the terribly young age of 59. RIP. Hope he's reincarnated aboard a Culture GSV.

Jun-09-13		Annie K.: Sorry to hear that, really sad news. :(

Jun-11-13		OhioChessFan:

Jun-11-13		Annie K.: Ah, the strong, silent type. ;)

Jun-11-13		OhioChessFan: It's my understanding most women are more concerned about the silent part.

Jun-13-13		Domdaniel: <Ohio> And yet Mr Presley, the King, was anything but silent, and had many female fans. Mr Dylan had a line about "The Ohio, and all of them rebel rivers". Is there a connection?

Jun-13-13		duchamp64: <Domdaniel> I am back at CG (at least for now). Anything new in your Duchamp research?

Jun-14-13		Domdaniel: <duchamp64> Hi, Allan. Nothing new to report, I'm afraid - a fire in my home last year destroyed many of my books and papers, including Duchamp-related material. I'm trying to rebuild, but there was stuff there that took me years to find.

Jun-17-13		Annie K.: <Dom: <It may even be possible to play e4 three times in a single game>> And that's just White... ;)

Jun-18-13		Domdaniel: <A> I tried to calculate the max number of pawns that could reach e4 during a single game, if (a) it didn't matter whether they were white or black, and (b) they could reach e4 via a capture as well as a normal pawn move. It looks like five white pawns and seven (!) black ones can get there, though I don't think there are sufficient captures available for that.

Jun-18-13		Domdaniel: <hms> You've retired? Congrats. Are you an Emeritus or an Escapee?

Jun-18-13		Annie K.: Nice. :) Well, maybe there would be enough possible captures without clause b, particularly since _xe4 is arguably not "the classic e4 move" anyway - then you have 3 White pawns and 5 Black ones. Can't play e4 too often, I always say! :D

Jun-18-13		Domdaniel: <A> Yep, e4 is like voting -- for full democratic effect, vote early and vote often.

Jun-18-13		hms123: <Dom> Emeritus officially; Escapee psychologically. We are in Maine chasing down lobsters, scallops, and craft beers. Our luck is in thus far.

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