User Profile: Domdaniel

Domdaniel
Member since Aug-11-06 · Last seen Jun-19-13

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...

FIN de Partie

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   Domdaniel has kibitzed 22416 times to chessgames [more...]

   Jun-19-13 Morozevich vs Karjakin, 2013

Domdaniel: Aha. The missing 15 mins has arrived on move 65, apparently.

   Jun-19-13 Gelfand vs Carlsen, 2013

Domdaniel: f5 comes next - but first Bb3 increases the pressure on d5.

   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.

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Apr-08-12		cro777: Passio secundum Gerry. You have fought well <Dom> under the circumstances. At the Cork Congress Masters you won with the white pieces against Peter J. Lynch. You succeeded again, this time from the other side of the board.

Apr-08-12		waustad: Oh my, my desktop widget clocks are set for home (US-EDT), Dublin, Berlin (same as Stuttgart with the Neckar Open), and Moscow (same as Sochi). Maybe I need to get a life.

Apr-09-12		Thanh Phan: http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.ne... :)

Apr-09-12		Domdaniel: Monday, probably, 0700, approx. Just walked a mile of gentle soft Irish motorway rain, to find a service station/shop that sold painkillers. Just aspirin, mind. I'm keeping the codeine for emergencies. Though not sleeping last night due to combined head/jaw/tooth and claw pain, plus cramping agony in my legs whenever I was close to dozing off. Therefore, instead of relying on combinations and chemistry, I am now eating a breakfast of scrambled eggs... segg... gegs... eyren. Chess, bleagh. I lose three endings in a row - all of which could've had other results. And then I win a theoretically drawn rook ending with two connected pawns vs one, no passers. Funny old game. I think I'll retire from play until I've sorted the pain problem and immersed myself in Dvoretsky's endgame manual. But I finally got to play a French, which cheered me up -- both of my wins were with black. Now I'd better think of something to play as white in R6.

Apr-09-12		Annie K.: <G> while psychosomatic headaches are entirely believable, toothaches tend not to be psychosomatic. Better look into that. :\

Apr-09-12		moronovich: <Dom> the COMBINATION of aspirin AND Ibuprofen/Ipren(dont know the precise word in english) will often do wonders for jaw pain.As it did to user <achieve> a while ago and yours truly too... Dose is about 1+1 3 times a day. Good luck in any case !

Apr-09-12		moronovich: by aspirin I meant ordinary painkillers like paracetamol.perhaps it is the same.

Apr-09-12		OhioChessFan: <I'm furious with myself, depressed, suffering from (psychosomatic?) head- and tooth- aches and foot cramps in the night.> Too bad they didn't happen during the day or you could have blamed your losses on them.

Apr-09-12		frogbert: how lovely isn't regression toward the mean? as promised, norwegian vs irish performance compared to pre-event ratings, for fide-rated players (only) in the master section: the norwegians: 14 players avg rating: 2074 avg tpr: 2102 avg tpr relative: own rating + 28 points the irish: 23 players (with fide rating) avg rating: 2135 avg tpr: 2120 avg tpr relative: own rating - 15 points both groups of players regressed towards their (expected) mean when comparing the stats after round 5 to the stats after the final round 9. as i said a couple of days ago: <i'll redo the stats after the end of the event. i assume the differences will be smaller then.> :o)

Apr-10-12		Domdaniel: I've regressed towards mean too. Haven't felt this mean in years. Gawd, what torture. Six endgames in succession, after hours of difficult play -- with essentially random results. I lost the last one, with bishop vs rook ... but I had a win if I used my central pair of passed pawns right. The one before that was knight vs rook, which I held. And a couple of rook endings and bishop endings. I don't want to play chess again for a long time. That was my worst tournament ever, both in results and the bloody physical experience of falling apart. And the pain. No excuses, mind you.

Apr-10-12		dakgootje: You should study Tals games. Kill or be killed. None of that endgame nonsense.

Apr-10-12		frogbert: you still lack a couple of games for your fide norm, dom?

Apr-11-12		Domdaniel: <frogbert> Yes. I now have seven games. I could acquire an 8th in a league match in a couple of weeks time, if I play. Then there's one other such match remaining, but that opponent is unlikely to be FIDE rated. Ironically, this past weekend cost me over 40 Irish rating points, but didn't much damage my FIDE prospects - only Lynch and Bennett, a win and a loss, were FIDE-rated. Provisionally I had been just over 2000, and have dropped to maybe 1970. I'm going to give this crap up, btw. I'll go on playing with chess, of course.

Apr-11-12		Domdaniel: <dak> You know those games where Tal sacrificed material only to emerge with a better endgame. I did that, a couple of times. And then managed to lose the endings.

Apr-11-12		dakgootje: You'll have to sac even more :) Or settle for a draw in a better position - but that's no fun.

Apr-11-12		Domdaniel: What is this 'fun' of which you speak, meester? We have no 'fun' here. Funny, that, innit.

Apr-11-12		Domdaniel: Thanks, btw, to everyone who followed my misadventures and put up with my kvetching. I'm starting to feel human again. Give up chess? Why, I'd sooner give up talki

Apr-12-12		frogbert: ng... ;o)

Apr-12-12		OhioChessFan: Per your recent experience, I am reminded of this bon mot recently immortalized on the Memorable Quotes page: <JoeWms: I studied the endgame, just like the book said – but they never let me get to the endgame in tournaments>

Apr-12-12		Memethecat: Commiserations on your lacklustre tournament Dom. I can see by your posts your a bit miffed, but most people here still love you regardless of your results. Except me, you've definitely gone right down in my estimations. I hate getting beat, especially by players of a lower or similar strength. I've been wondering if losing gets easier with time, but I've just been reading about Spassky & how he would literally break down in tears when he lost, so it seems like it gets worse not better. My friends on here have been pretty quiet for the past week or so & the mood feels a bit solemn, could be transference on my part though or maybe I'm not used to the booms & busts of t'internet chatting yet.

Apr-12-12		dakgootje: <Except me, you've definitely gone right down in my estimations.> Now now - you've got that all wrong. It was decided <days> ago that was impossible. Because Dom was standing on his head, impersonating Giants. Which is why you can't think of him when you're high. Cogito ergo I rest my case.

Apr-12-12		frogbert: and those who derive more joy from endings than dom (seemingly) does - even when losing - may have a look at the fascinating diagrams here: Hans Arild Runde

Apr-13-12		Memethecat: <dak> Cogito ergot, I am high, a giant underneath a rainbow of colours that melt in my mouth like snow flakes that are the real building blocks of the universe all of which I can comprehend & communicate with especially when Dom stands on his head....6hrs later....who am I.

Apr-13-12		Domdaniel: Endings, endings. I used to think I was relatively good at them. The trouble is, to reach one you have to pass through a stressful middlegame -- I don't do other kinds -- and maybe fatigue sets in. Or maybe I'm not so good. Anyhoo, I won this one: click for larger view White has just allowed a pair of rooks to be exchanged, turning a 99% drawn position into a black win. 55...Kh6 56.Kg4 Kg6 57.Kf4 Kh5 0-1. I lost this one: click for larger view 36.c6 wins. I played 36.b6 and duly lost. And this was the Bennett game that started the whole miserable run of endings: click for larger view Black, moi, can draw simply by marking time with the Rook along the rank: Rd7-e7-d7 etc. If White tries Rb7, we both Queen. But I played 54...f5??, thinking I could liquidate the kingside pawns and draw against the a-pawn. Turns out it's too far advanced, with my King too far away. So I lost. Undo so weiter.

Apr-14-12		cro777: At the ongoing Russian Team Champioship a solid grandmaster as Black lost the following endgame (and he did it without blunders) Position after 50...Rxa3 click for larger view Dreev vs M Brodsky, 2012 In the upcoming league match try to be more concentrated in the endgame. The errors you committed are avoidable. <I'm starting to feel human again. Give up chess? Why, I'd sooner give up talki> A wise man once said: "My pessimism is optimism." And Will added: "The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

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