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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   Domdaniel has kibitzed 22314 times to chessgames [more...]

   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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Jun-08-07		TheSlid: <Does the Nameless exist?> Is this not the starting point for Aristotalian logic? If you know the name, you know the thing. If you can name it, you can tame it.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: Correct, <radioactive one>. And hence the "science" of definition-making and analytic philosophy is born in one fey breath... <Bertrand Russell> on <Aristotle>: "There is no point reading Aristotle." Ironic, don't you think? What are the <Necessary and Sufficient> conditions for defining a <pratt>? Just wondering.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: Whoops dropped this in the wrong forum. Jun-08-07 kill msg jessicafischerqueen: <OSAKA, Japan - A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.> Huh! <Child development> indeed. <Nippon> is clearly developing a robot army, an army that will inevitably turn on its masters, at which point only <Governor Arnold Scwharzenegger> will be able to save us!! Ack! Warning, warning!! AWHOOGA (air raid sirens)

Jun-08-07		Ragh: J, whatever you might say, I have a strong instinct that <Dom> is <Offield>. Here's the science of deduction, my dear Watson: 1.Profile of <Offield> matches to that of <Dom> picture perfectly. 2.User Offield is never to be seen posting here after Dom started posting. 3.Style of writing/kibitzing by both users is strikingly similar. For example, (a most important piece of info in the analysis) the word 'icosatriophile', is used by only these two identities in the whole world.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: <Ragh> good lord you may be uncovering the greatest security scandal at <CG.com> since the infamous (and hilarious) <Slomarko2> debacle!!

Jun-08-07		Ragh: J, LOL, but you would never know for sure until <Dom> confirms this. But, I know its a fact for sure. PS: Did you see the way I highlighted a couple words here.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: Yes, meaning that YOU could also be <dom>, for all we know. Or I could as well. My real name is <Legion>, after all. Prediction: <Dom> will issue a <non-denial denial>.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: I see your point. To be <Dom> you'd have to be 23.

Jun-08-07		Ragh: <Prediction: <Dom> will issue a <non-denial denial>.> Don't worry. We have all the evidence to submit before the court of law.

Jun-08-07		whiteshark: Well noticed, <Ragh>, there are some strong clues <und so weiter>... But <Offield> only 166 times kibbutzing in less than 5 months, hmm. There must be a story behind this obviously story. Go on, sleuth, follow the trace of money... Deep Throat

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: But he may have fled our jurisdiction!!

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: omigod <whiteshark> is ALSO <Dom>!! This conspiracy grows by the second!

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: <White shark> Well done on spotting my reference to <All the President's Men>, which could be the best movie every made in America.

Jun-08-07		Ragh: That's a good point you've noticed <shark>. J, please dont confuse us investigators dealing with a serious matter on hand. Had to zap the previous post..too personal.

Jun-08-07		Ragh: J, Don't be surprised if tomorrow morning you might wake up only to notice that page 183 of this forum is declared missing. No traces left for the history to take notice.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: <Ragh> That would be evidence that <dom> has been taken over by an alien life form. Like from <Spain> or something like that. The <real Dom>, if we can still safely use that term, is dead set against deleting anything. They had to drop a nuclear bomb on him to get him to do any deleting in here, as a matter of fact. But as time goes on with no word from "Dom," the conspiracy may take an alarming direction.

Jun-08-07		Ragh: J, The quest just doesn't seem to end.. <"I used to be somebody else, but I traded him in."> This movie quote is the very first line in the profile above. I think, it was only meant to give a sort of slight hint for a detective to uncover it ultimately. OK, too much detective work for a Friday. I'm off to catch Ocean's Thirteen now.

Jun-08-07		Ragh: <The <real Dom>, if we can still safely use that term, is dead set against deleting anything.> Going by your statement, I can safely conclude that a Bermuda Triangle like scandal is highly unlikely to occur.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: Yes, but perhaps a <Sasquatch type> scenario may develop instead. All we know for a fact right now is that this conspiracy runs very, very, deep.

Jun-08-07		jessicafischerqueen: jessicafischerqueen: Jun-08-07 kill jessicafischerqueen: <All> Please check out the latest addition to the <funniest kibbutzes> section of my Profile. It's from <Bill> and it is surely the <Mother of All Typos>! <Eyal> I noticed you made fun of me for not deleting the <msg.> thingy when I duplicate a post by copying and pasting, so this time I took the <msg.> thingy out. Reads much better now!! Thanks, as always.

Jun-09-07		hitman84: Wagh! Wagh! <Ragh>, That's just an odd coincidence. BTW, this is a very nice quote... "Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys." - Emma Bull

Jun-09-07		hitman84: Guess you are right Ragh! <Domdaniel: Ahh, such delightful delicacies. Mason, who played many games in what was euphemistically described as 'an hilarious condition' at numero uno? I can empathise with that... And of course <Joe Wms> has been here ahead of me. Inevitable, really. Yo, Joe... Hi <Offramp>... Why am I here? Interesting philosophical question. In the old days, when I used the name <Offield>, I had noticed our, ah, lexical contiguity. However... > User: offramp

Jun-09-07		jessicafischerqueen: <Hitman>!! You are a genius!! You have unlocked the secret of a conspiracy as tangled and diabolical as any before in human history! Brilliant mate! I guess all that's left to say is that "Dom" has some explaining to do when he gets back... Dim of the Yard

Jun-09-07		Eyal: In fact, the identity of <Dom> and <Offield> was never a secret - no need to get so excited about it... <Domdaniel: <mateo> Nun of the above. Nor even John N. But the last time we met here I was called Offield. I traded him in.> (Topalov vs Kramnik, 2006) <Domdaniel: It's probably fine. I have a previous-life account myself under the name 'Offield', although I forgot my password and never got around to resurrecting it.> (twinlark chessforum) <Domdaniel: My previous username here was Offield, which some folk inevitably took as a sporty amalgam of 'offense' and 'field'. Actually it was just a dodgy back-translation of Duchamp into English.> (mack chessforum) <Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <"Why not, Mr. Richter? Do you think that life is so important and chess is not?"> C'est parfait, ca. Merci. Earlier today I had to chide a friend of mine -- splendid chap, highly intelligent, knows lots of stuff, but persists in the curious delusion that politics is in some way important. Along with nations, wars, revolutions, republics, all that sort of stuff. In particular, he clings to the odd belief that the people who had a revolution (or 'rising' - it sounds less, well, revolutionary and possibly more macho) in Ireland in 1916 were important and even heroic. Whatever that is. Nonsense, I said. The era of Kafka, Einstein, Duchamp, Tzara, Joyce and Nimzowitsch? How can a provincial bourgeois revolutionary (or 'riser'?!) possibly compare with such titans? How can you seriously mention Irish independence in the same breath as My System and The Large Glass? Nationhood versus the Nimzo-Indian Defence - no contest. This is not yet a popular point of view in these parts. But I'm getting there. Mr Offield> (Domdaniel chessforum)

Jun-09-07		Eyal: Elementary, my dear <Ragh>.

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