User Profile: Domdaniel

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

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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   May-19-13 Domdaniel chessforum

Domdaniel: <H> 'Soon' is, of course, a relative term. The sun will burn out 'soon'. I'll be back a little after that.

   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 Annie K. chessforum

Domdaniel: A *kvick* hello, all right? Vot is vit all zese veedings? A vino from visconsin ...

   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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Apr-24-12		Domdaniel: One day, the Islets of Langerhans will surprise everyone at the chess olympiad.

Apr-24-12		frogbert: i guess i'm a cheater, i've only read "brave new world"...

Apr-24-12		Domdaniel: <frogbert> The original one by Shagspere was better. He called it The Tempest.

Apr-24-12		Domdaniel: Huxley isn't always great. The late stuff is good: his mind really did expand with age, blindness, Californication and certain chemicals. But much of the early stuff - widely praised as dazzling satire of 1920s England - seems slight and trivial now. I recently got round to reading Antic Hay - praised as dazzling satire, usw - and found nothing there. Neither as funny as Wodehouse nor as blackly bigoted as Waugh (which is also a kind of funny, come to think of it). Come to think of it. Odd phrase.

Apr-24-12		hms123: <dom> Nothing is as funny as Wodehouse.

Apr-24-12		crawfb5: Are there no prisms? Are there no Wodehouses? This place scares the dickens out of me...

Apr-25-12		Domdaniel: Yes, I Miss Prism too. As Newton's Optics showed, they are useful in determining the difference - not to mention the angle of refraction - between a ray of sunshine and a Scotsman with a grievance.

Apr-25-12		Domdaniel: People who live in Woad Houses shouldn't turn blue. Speaking of analysis trees (were we?), I've been musing about what kind of tree I'd like to be ... deciduous (all that shedding and regrowth) or coniferous ... Not a (mighty) redwood or a (royal) oak or (indestructible) teak, anyhow. That macho stuff is just begging people to chop you down and build navies, houses, etc. Willow is good. You've got painkillers in your bark, but you look droopy and weepy. Call me Tit Willow. "Is it weakness of intellect, Birdie?"

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: <Miss Prism> You Pict a good colour for yer house, but woad you be able to live in it? If I wer a tree I'd go down the deciduous Root too, though not a great Oak Elm or Ash. The versatile Hazel has all the right qualities, slender yet strong, good to burn, build & live under, forever young: cut at my limbs & they just grow back stronger, nuts, year after year, nuts. Some say its the tree of knowledge, oh well, not a perfect match, but close enough.

Apr-26-12		Domdaniel: <meme> You can spread your nuts in my forest anytime.

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: Ohh Dom, You big flirt!

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: I bet you say that to all the trees!

Apr-26-12		Domdaniel: <The Frogspawn Book of Genesis> In the beginning was the Oral Zone, when words were truth and authority was spoken for. Then, for 500 years, humans lived in Gutenberg Ghetto, where thought was informed by logic, reason, print, maths, linearity and order. This had downsides, including nationalism. Then came the electronic age. The sage Marshall McLuhan saw it as a return to the simultaneity of the oral zone, amplified by the informatic potential of the Gutenberg era. But his Global Village has already stagnated into Globville, the nightmare of gated suburbanites defending their right to obesity. We are the Zapkinder, players of chess and other games, dedicated to keeping the better bits of Gutenberg Ghetto alive in Globville. And embracing the Electricity. In fact, I'm about to stick my fingers in the socket. It's a hit.

Apr-26-12		Domdaniel: < I bet you say that to all the trees!> I leaf that to other branches.

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: I had a love affair with Don Van's music many years ago: This one zzzaps Singin through you to me; thunderbolts caught easily Shouts the truth peacefully Eeeeeee-lec-tri-ci-teeeeeeee High voltage man kisses night to bring the light to those who need to hide their shadow deed Go into bright find the light and know that friends don`t mind just how you grow

Apr-26-12		Domdaniel: <meme> The old fart was smart.

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: I doubt I'd of been able to work with him, hard task master from what I've read. Just listened to Safe as Milk & Lick My Decals Off Baby, first time for a long time. Now Eric Satie's playing, its the musical equivalent of a sky high night of partying followed by a morning in the arms of Morpheus. You used smart in the past tense, so he must be dead, last I heard he was in the dessert painting, a recluse, but that probably means he just didn't want to go on TV & answer stupid, self promoting questions.

Apr-26-12		Domdaniel: <meme> Yeah, the Captain has gone to the desert in the sky. A year or two ago, I think, as humans measure time. But "The old fart was smart" is also a quote from Trout Mask Replica, my favorite work of art. Well, along with certain books and paintings, I suppose. But way up there. He did the TV thing a few times -- had the most wonderful stupefied/ironic/what-the-hell? facial expression for sweeping stupid questions away. But these can still be found on YewChoob.

Apr-26-12		Memethecat: Trout Mask Replica is the the album I know least, strange, considering its the one that's talked about most. I've 'just' got a copy, courtesy of a friends music library, so I should defiantly make time for it. The digital age is great, but in some ways too much of a good thing, you dont borrow a couple of your mates albums & listen them over n over, you get a full copy of their 1000+ albums music collection. Where to begin.

Apr-27-12		Domdaniel: I remember getting Trout Mask Replica on vinyl -- I probably already had a couple of Beefheart albums, but more accessible ones like Clear Spot -- and playing it over and over, and being completely bewildered. And then gradually the noise de-congeals into music. It still sounds brilliant to me, but that sense of total strangeness is gone.

Apr-27-12		Domdaniel: Of course John Cale (Fear, Sabotage, Music for a New Society) and Scott Walker (Tilt, The Drift) are way up there too.

Apr-27-12		Memethecat: In the past, music that I've found the most difficult to access, cos its dissonant, discordant or just down right weird, is the stuff that has real longevity & is most rewarding. Gong, Beefheart, early Floyd, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Monk, are just a few that ticked that box. Music you had to earn. These days less is more, I'd rather listen to a songwriter on their own with guitar or piano instead of a big sound with lots of instruments. I like my fiddle music the same, if you've got Tommy Peoples playing why drown him out with tons of other stuff, a bit of light guitar or bodhran is plenty. Old blues recordings, Robert Johnson, Mance Lipscum, Blind Lemon Jefferson, one man one guitar, knocks the socks off bag band blues from the 60s. I've only heard Scott Walker sings Jacques Brel, not a fan of it.

Apr-27-12		Memethecat: I read he locked the Magic Band up for a year while making Trout Mask Replica, & they hated him for it.

Apr-27-12		Domdaniel: <meme> The Brel phase was the 1970s Walker, when he was escaping the chains of popstardom. After that he made three amazing records at ten-year intervals: Climate of Hunter in the 80s, Tilt in the 90s, The Drift in the present century. < I read he locked the Magic Band up for a year while making Trout Mask Replica, & they hated him for it.> Some things got exaggerated, maybe. Don also claimed to have written all 40 songs overnight on a piano.

Apr-28-12		frogbert: april 28th. can't leave ugly holes, can we?

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