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| Mar-13-07 | | Eyal: <It's now clear to paleochessologists that the French Def represents the original lineage. The freakish move 1...e5 is a sort of chessic giraffe, its long neck pulled out of shape by aeons of in-breeding. And stretching after illusory juicy pawns in the treetops. The Scandinavian 1...d5 is a French without support. And the Caro-Kann seems to be a mutant resulting from crossbreeding with Slavs. The Sicilian is just a Franco-Sicilian gone wrong. And the Pirc is some kind of Neanderthal.> What about the St.George? |
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Mar-13-07
 | | Domdaniel: <going blind> In an earlier post I used the word 'favorire'. This may have looked like a common typo, but is actually an obscure French word meaning, uhm, 'to favour with a laugh'. My use of 'aa' -- some kind of scoriaceous Hawaiian rock (with a rough surface and many jagged fragments), innit? -- is harder to explain away. But... speaking of jagged fragments... |
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: <I assume yours is customised, pimp-my-pawn style? It doesn't seem to be typical of the images on offer, not that I've ever actually succeeded in decrypting its component parts...> Got to say I'd be hugely surprised if you were to even try decrypting it. Off the top of my head, it contains the following: 1. alcoholic post-punk visionary Mark E. Smith;
2. alcoholic American free spirit Robert Pollard;
3. alcoholic beverage Greene King IPA;
4. pornorific French novel The Story of The Eye (Bataille); 5. John Ruskin's head, heavily squashed and distorted; 6. the tiniest sliver from the Ipswich Town emblem;
7. top nutter William Blake;
8. the smallest possible fragment from the Seinfeld season 3 boxset cover; 9. the only proper type of dog, a springer spaniel;
10. and representing the flower people, Duncan Suttles. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Hmm. I was just wondering about the St George. One could argue that both it and Owen's Defence are really just eccentric varieties of French... but that would amount to saying that Les Anglo-Saxonnes are just <Baftarde Normans> descended from William Ye Baftarde. And the Dutch deserve consideration for Van't Kruijs Opening, 1.e3. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: Oh, and
11. Jerry Sadowitz, despicable human being extraordinaire. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I'd have expected to get Blake, Bataille, maybe Suttles, and possibly Mark E Smith... Didn't, though, did I? I thought it was Lewis Carroll and Legs Larry Smith. Nul points. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: General query, open to all...
Anyone know what 'Uitelky' means...? |
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| Mar-13-07 | | hitman84: <Dom>Maybe its some kinda slang in Czech. "ucitelsky" makes more sense.
ucitelsky - scholastik
ucitelsky - magistral
ucitelsky - pedagogic
ucitelsky - pedagogical
ucitelsky - preceptorial
ucitelsky - teacher's
ucitelsky - tutorial
http://www.slovnik.cz/ |
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| Mar-13-07 | | Knightlord: Yes, I think ucitelka means female teacher in Czech. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | percyblakeney: There's always Maximilian Ujtelky who is connected to an early g6 in the French: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/kaiss... |
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Mar-13-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom, Mack, Eyal, WBM, Nako> IT'S ALIVE DOCTOR!!
FROGSPAWN LIVES!!!
Yet another coup for the mighty Imperator and Impresario <DomDaniel>, whose online journal dedicated to the <French Defence> and related <chessic> matters will no doubt garner him a <Pulitzer>... or maybe a <Poe> (mystery writers' prize). Or, a <Nobel Prize> for Chess Research? Yes, IT'S A DOG'S LIFE .. oops MAN'S LIFE in FROGSPAWN.... |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>!!!
Look at all the Punters in here already for the <Frogspawn> debut! This forum is buzzing like a hive of French Bees!!!
I haven't been this excited since my husband got his ( ) caught in the washing machine... THIS JUST IN- FROGSPAWN A RAGING SUCCESS |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: I think <percy> is onto something here. It also explains why I couldn't find Uitelky in any Slavic dictionary -- I tried Czech, Hrvatska, Russian, etc. I even retro-guessed various possible transliterations from Cyrillic alphabets (Uitelkiy, Vitelky, Oitelky, etc) with no luck. I thought it might mean something like 'blitz' or 'hippo'... The original context was a book, Super Tournaments 2000, published in Bulgaria, with games annotated by Khalifman and others. This game (which I looked up because of the Hippo discussion in Jessica's forum) -
J Gallagher vs Ponomariov, 2000 - had an annotation (after move 10) reading (in typically eccentric English): <Those, who prefer to play "Uitelky", often just like that within ten moves (and literally in several seconds) arrange their pawns (h6, g6, f7, e6, d6, c7, b6, a6) and pieces (Bg7, Bb7, Ne7, Nd7), almost not turning their attention to White's plan. For Black the game starts only from the 11th move.> It never occurred to me that Uitelky might be an actual person. Thanks, <percy>. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Yep, actual written articles, militarily surreal FENs, a notes and queries section, a letters page... we'll need an agony aunt/uncle figure next, I imagine. I don't know about husbands, but wasn't there a song called <Don't Put Your Cat in the Washing Machine, Mother, You Might Get a Sock in the Puss>? |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> this just in:
<HIPPO (Jippo?)DEFENCE> triumphs yet again!!! However, my <Slav> defence was meticulously and painfully dissected by the redoubtable <Niels>... My Correspondence chess record is now even at <three wins, three losses>... In <Reaganomics>, I'm batting over .900!! Incidentally, <Ganges Uitelky> was a somewhat notorious Balkan GM who claimed that his Great Grandmother Ten Times Removed (from what I couldn't say) actually invented the French Defence-- originally meant only as an instructional tool. Unfortunatley, or unuitelkyilly, the Defence escaped into the General Chess Population like a pesky virus-- a virus that does not kill the host, but rather bores him to the point that he would <rather be born without a face> than play against <e6>... Dr. Jessica Darwin (deceased)
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Frogspawn> "Linguistics Notes" by Albert Camus
Actually, the idiom "up yours" does not exist in French. For an epithet with vaguely similar effect, try "ferme ta guele" or "coup ta poche." Zut Alors!
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: Of the millions upon squillions of games of chess this world has seen, it is Nezhmetdinov vs Ujtelky, 1964 that I'd have most like to have played and won. |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> See <Mack's> post! I KNEW <Ukelele> was a Balkan GM!! Told ya!!
wheeee |
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: It's amazing how it all comes together in the end. Just yesterday we were talking about Camus... |
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: And of course it was Camus' The Fall that gave Mr. Mark E. Smith his band name... |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Since you mentioned Solaris -- Tarkovsky, I trust, although Soderberg's remake isn't actually bad in itself, just by comparison -- here's a short list of another category I rather like: science fiction films with little or no special effects... 1. Alphaville (Godard)
2. Friendship's Death (Peter Wollen)
3. Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman)
Other possible candidates include Eraserhead, Fahrenheit 451, Pi, Dr Strangelove, The Falls (Greenaway), and that one set in Seattle/Rain City starring Divine and Kris Kristofferson... Trouble in Mind. Directed by Alan Rudolph, who also makes the list with Equinox. I could go on, but I won't. In thpace no-one can thell I thcream... |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
Thanks tons for the list....
I seen em all except <Alpha, Friend, Liquid, and the Falls>, but I'll be looking for these in my Uni film liberry, probably after this term... Especially The Falls since Greenaway is my number one.... Even if he only had made <Zed...> and <Draughtsman's>, he would be my number one... Brilliant! Incroyable!! You met him!!
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: OH <Dom> if you have any of the stuff from interviewing <Greenaway> could you send it to me? Girl in Front Row With Binoculars (laffed my head off when you wrote that in my forum-- brilliant) |
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| Mar-13-07 | | Eyal: <Solaris> The novel by Lem (1961) is wonderful, btw - IMO far far better than both film adaptations. That's one of the few really deep explorations of the <alien> theme in SF, and stands out especially when you think of all these cases where the main thing that differentiates aliens from humans seems to be the amount of hair gel. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: Anybody remember Yma Sumac, supposedly an Inca Princess, who had a brief singing career 30 or 40 years ago? Is it true she came from the American midwest and her real name was Amy Camus? |
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