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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Feb-01-12		Domdaniel: ... creeps quietly away, having kick-started a nature/nurture gender war on the Shirov-Hou live game... Innaresting, actually. In another context (teenager beats 40-ish big beast) this game would be seen as the triumph of youth over an ageing generation of former stars. But because 'youth' happens to be female, it's about gender instead. Biology is real, but acculturation is routinely under-estimated.

Feb-03-12		frogbert: <teenager beats 40-ish big beast> i'm afraid this beast has seen his best days, while hou's are yet to come. but it was a very impressive display of her in gibraltar.

Feb-03-12		frogbert: anyone with viewpoints on cg.com becoming a chess suppliances store? a bit surprised not to see any discussion about that yet, anywhere. (or maybe i missed it.)

Feb-03-12		Annie K.: What's the problem? Nobody is forced to buy anything if they don't want to. :)

Feb-03-12		frogbert: i don't think i said there was a problem, did i? it doesn't mean people can't have views on it. :o)

Feb-03-12		Domdaniel: What are they selling? T-shirts? Smart drugs? The King's Indian in a pill?

Feb-03-12		Domdaniel: < Nobody is forced to buy anything if they don't want to.> Eh, food? Though I suppose it's possible to live out of other people's waste bins, it's perhaps healthier to exchange money for nutrients now and then. Not that my own food habit is what you'd call an oil burner, but I try to eat something most days.

Feb-03-12		frogbert: <What are they selling?> "a hole in your pocket, if they found a way"

Feb-03-12		Annie K.: <Dom> yes dear. The subject was akshly buying anything at the cg store. They don't sell food, although maybe I'd buy a few of those King's Indian pills... :p However, if you feel like nitpicking, ok, but food is not the best example? You are still not <forced> to buy it - you can start your own farm, or just go the hunter-gatherer route. Elementary education, or the protection of your country may have been better choices. ;)

Feb-03-12		frogbert: annie k, you don't see any hypothetical conflicts of interest in 1) moderating a discussion forum, and 2) selling goods to those being moderated ? i have only good things to say about daniel's integrity, but i still see a potential problem related to 1) and 2) above. imagine that person X spends $5,000 in the cg.com shop <and> has a questionable practice with regards to the posting guidelines. i'd say that makes for some tough decision making ...

Feb-03-12		frogbert: btw, is the dom-annie dictionary ("innaresting", "akshly", etc.) updated domannially? or only annually?

Feb-03-12		Domdaniel: <frog> It's an equal opportunities dictionary. 'Innaresting' is mine, though borrowed from William Burroughs - who actually (sic) did talk like that. 'Ackshly' is one of Annie's, ackshly. Domannially/annually ... heh. You'll be saying next that I don't know my ain name from my domain name. Or vice, as it were, versa.

Feb-03-12		Annie K.: Ya, but I decided to save on pixels and dropped the c... Now it's just akshly. ;)

Feb-03-12		frogbert: <It's an equal opportunities dictionary.> well, as long as there aren't dom-annie opportunities to make changes, i guess that's fine.

Feb-03-12		tpstar: <Domdaniel> Please review the site's Wikipedia entry from the link in my chessforum, and then please make any suggestions or improvements in my chessforum, because we are working on the Wikipedia project in my chessforum. Along with generously donating large sums of money, this is one of the many things we do to strengthen and preserve our site against the Bad People. That guy who was guilty of cyberstalking and cyberbullying (both very questionable practices with regards to the Posting Guidelines) won't dare act up with the whole group watching.

Feb-03-12		Domdaniel: <tpstar> Will do, doc. I have a vague impression that, thus far, 2012 has been a tad more civil than 2011. But I'm probably missing all sorts of things, as usual. In an ideal world, your prescription for calm ("the whole group watching") would be a fine tonic. But I worry that the acter-uppers only feel shame when pressured by their own peer group, which doesn't necessarily coincide with the group. And I'm just an infidel anglophone white male mathematician and elitist art critic anyhow. Nobody listens to people like me, who would disavow moral authority even if it was personally handed to them by a deity. Stone tablets, your godship? Do I take all ten at once, with water? Eh, sorry. Not cool, cyberbullying. Not cool at all. We have spoken. So mote it be. Let it come down.

Feb-03-12		Domdaniel: Hey, isn't it about time that somebody did an <Internet Encyclopedia of Chess> ... ? I'm an encyclopediast, you lot are chess players. Many of you know a thing or three, too. Get your people to contact my people and we'll greenlight it asap.

Feb-04-12		frogbert: you are discussing "cyberbullying" and moral authorities with tpstar? innaresting. do you believe in concepts such as "good people" and "bad people", dom? in a conflict between "the good" and "the bad", can there ever be a question about who's right and who's wrong? it can't, can it? "the good" does good and "the bad" does bad. you know who you want to be, of course - the one with the power of definition; the moral authority if you like. and i agree with you. bullying is not cool. wysiwyg.

Feb-04-12		dakgootje: <Get your people to contact my people > Are both people <hms123>?

Feb-04-12		Domdaniel: <frog> - < do you believe in concepts such as "good people" and "bad people", dom?> No. <dak> - <Are both people <hms123>?> Yes. He's very good at playing both sides off against the law of the excluded middle. And he has good taste in books.

Feb-06-12		frogbert: howdy, dom - just trashing by. :o)

Feb-06-12		hms123: <Dom> <dak> My people are looking in the mirror and talking to themselves. Fortunately, they are discussing <Through the Looking Glass> so they will soon solve this conundrum.

Feb-06-12		Annie K.: Negotiations will be held every other Thursday, I trust? :)

Feb-06-12		achieve: <Feb-06-12 frogbert: howdy, dom - just trashing by. :o)> There seems to be going on much that does not meet "the eye" - or does there... Normal and widely acceptible behaviour resumed.

Feb-06-12		frogbert: achieve, with a sufficiently vivid imagination, one doesn't need to be troubled too much by what actually goes on. :o) btw, i eventually noticed your questions of january 25th on my player page - and answered them.

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