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
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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   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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Oct-26-10		Domdaniel: <Annie> - <reality check> Indeed. I seem to be coming back to life. I just opened my email and saw that I'd sent no messages in the past six weeks - that hasn't happened since, oh, must be the early 1990s. Very strange feeling. Ah, a feeling. Yep, I'm on the way back. I will be in touch. Approximate quote from a Michael Moorcock novel -- approximate 'cos I last read it long before the early 1990s or even 80s ... "You're coming to pieces all over the carpet. And you used to be such a nice young man too." It's one of the Jerry Cornelius books: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin. I think actually looking for it might be a tad obsessive/displacementish, even by my rather dubious standards. It's hard not to drown in resonances, these days. But le tete is above l'eau, sans doute. I'd do a French smiley -- qui rire, vivre -- if I knew how. Inspector Smiley of the Yard.

Oct-27-10		jessicafischerqueen: Very nice to see your smiling eye hopping out of <frogspawn> to my house. Did you know that Korean frogs are called "geh guerri"? They speak a different language too, they don't say "croak" they say "Kay-ro, kay- ro". I thought you secretly wanted to know.

Oct-27-10		Domdaniel: Exactement, Mme Jessique Pecheur-de-Reines. Minds-aren't-read, wrong-paradigm. But if they were, You'da read my mind. Or what I like to think of as my mind. It's not really 'mine'. But Msieur Dom has such fab bespoke designer minds in his wardrobe - never even airs them, filthy pig, just has the same pervy old stained one he always uses. So you can't blame me for dressing up. You're lovely. The 'help' aka 'the French maid'. PS. If I get caught, he'll feed me to his herd of savage Korean pigs, so no peaching.

Oct-27-10		ChessBookForum: Fear us.

Oct-27-10		ChessBookForum: Actually you probably don't need to fear us since your flat is probably already littered with us. Also, your name is on the "secret link header" at the top of our forum. I'm not sure who put it there but I have an idea. You see, so many people have the password to our forum now it's hard to keep track of who's wearing the suit.

Oct-27-10		Domdaniel: You're like an open book to me, you know.

Oct-28-10		Annie K.: <Dom: <You're like an open book to me, you know.>> Hey, that's <my> line, and I want it back! :p Although I'll concede that this was a particularly opportune occasion for stealing it. ;) <Ah, a feeling. Yep, I'm on the way back.> Bravo, bravissimo. But keep it up. :) <- that's in Italian, and in French, too!

Oct-30-10		Domdaniel: Speed-reading is like ... bullet chess or fast food or ... other things. Just because you can do something fast doesn't mean you have to. A. Sloth

Oct-30-10		Annie K.: <Dom> I know what you mean. Why, just the other day, I was worried about someone or other, and that distracted me at work... I didn't pay any attention to what I was doing at all. I accidentally got a whole week's worth of work done in two hours. Yihikes! Fortunately, nobody noticed... :s

Oct-30-10		Domdaniel: <A> <Fortunately, nobody noticed> Must be nice, that. ;)

Oct-30-10		Annie K.: Heh, heh, heh... :p Wow, and a real smiley, too! ;)

Oct-31-10		achieve: <G> You must be on cloud bleepin nine :9)

Oct-31-10		Domdaniel: < You must be on cloud bleepin nine> I must? OK, if you say so. Funny expression, 'cloud 9', innit? A hint of the Bureaucracy on the Other Side ... - Right, mate, you'll be needing a cloud. We got everything on the lot - Cumulus Escort '73, one old lady driver, right up to your Lotus Nimbus with added thunderbolts. But, first, the wings - you want classical, that's yer gold and silver, very lah-di-dah, or tropical, red and blue and stuff, the kids go for tropical. Or ... yeah, mate, you'll look fine in Thrush. Beautiful plumage, yer Frush. In standard Northern European shyte-brown.... and did I mention we got a special offer on electric halos? Ahem. Come in, Cloud 9, yer time is up.

Oct-31-10		achieve: Arright, Checkin Inn from the "other" other side to acknowledge yer fine piece of free Jazz... Poetic even. The Style reminds me in some ways of one of our greatest writers who unfortunately passed away yesterday... Did the news reach the green across the water hazard? Of course I'm referring to Harry Mulisch, a truly fascinating person, though I never met him in person. And he had moved past "style", a veritable literary chameleon. I think he beared testimony to the hypothesis that an extremely creative mind is most fruitful in a ingenuously organized and structured setting. Which he also created. At least it worked very well for him.

Oct-31-10		hms123: <jess> <Also, your name is on the "secret link header" at the top of our forum. I'm not sure who put it there but I have an idea. > So do I. Pretty sure.

Nov-01-10		Domdaniel: <Niels> Yes, I heard about Harry Mulisch. The giants are leaving us, and we don't seem to be in good condition to replace them. That said, I haven't read 'The Discovery of Heaven' ... I really only knew of him because of De Aanslag/ Assault, which I discovered as a result of the film version.

Nov-01-10		Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ue...

Nov-01-10		Open Defence: did you hear the one about the Author ? he is being sued for textual harassment....

Nov-01-10		Domdaniel: I thought he was atextual.

Nov-01-10		Domdaniel: They're keying adverts to song lyrics. Just as John Cale sang "in the house with the bamboo floor" up popped an ad for floors. What next? Valium for 'Fear is a Man's Best Friend'? Fishing holidays for 'Trout Mask Replica'? Urban barbecues for 'Hot Rats'?

Nov-01-10		Annie K.: 'A textual'. <A_textual>. Let'snotforgetourspaces, eh? Spaces are important - that's where the bars go. The bars are where the barbers, barbarians, and barbeques go. And the barbecues are where anything goes.

Nov-02-10		achieve: The good Doc has left the country, so I will remain faceless, yet watchful, for a little while.

Nov-02-10		Annie K.: <Dom: <So the master-level White player offers me a draw because he's scared of a lost ending, and I accept it because I'm scared of his rating. And everyone is happy, or not.>> There is something distinctly Hungarian about your sense of humor... That's a compliment. ;)

Nov-02-10		Open Defence: < Domdaniel: I thought he was atextual.> it depended on the context...

Nov-02-10		Domdaniel: <Annie> Thank you. Taken as such. My Hungarian brother-in-law used to work as a taxi driver. He told me that when his working day was finished - at last, no more contact with humans for a while - he used to let out a full werewolf-style whoop of delight. Then, one evening, mid-whoop, he realized he still had a passenger sitting in the back.

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