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| Mar-29-07 | | danielpi: Hm... it's true:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anusol
How ever does one learn such trivia, I wonder. |
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| Mar-29-07 | | danielpi: I should read my links before I post them. This is great. Anusol comes in suppository form. Sort of poetic, really. I wonder if Paul Fussell would regard this as an "organic form". Muhahaha! |
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Mar-29-07
 | | Domdaniel: <daniel> At least -- apparently -- you can still draw a clear line between "thinking deeply about such things" and "work". I've hopelessly scrambled both of them. <However> ... while we're on the topic, there's a variant version of this -- probably Irish -- that sounds like "Howenever". It seems to originally have been "How and ever" with the 'and' added in the middle for emphasis. The technical description of this being another of my favorite words: tmesis. ... which in turn sounds like the kind of thing yelled at a family football game: t'me, sis! Howenever... my current working assumption is that one learns trivia simply by living with one's brain turned on, thus avoiding automated activity. The trick is to accept their triviality and not fall prey to the delusion that they'll come in useful some day. That way lies death. Or TV gameshows, which may be even worse. |
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Mar-29-07
| | Domdaniel: <Mckmac> - <"Which popular Black Opening possibly served as inspiration for a well known Van Morrison song?"> Right, to work.
<St Dominic's Preview>?
Nah, if anything, that's inspired by me, not a chess opening. <Pass the Dutchy>?
This would do the trick, but I can't imagine the notoriously grumpy Mr Morrison singing anything so trivial. <No Guru, No Method, No Teacher>
Aha. This IS a Morrison title, and it also describes a common manner of playing chess openings. But it doesn't actually name one, does it? <Cypress Avenue, Gloria, Hard Nose the Highway> and I'm running out of Van songs. It's a Marvelous Night for a Moondance?
Originally <It's a Marvelous Knight for a Muzio>? |
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Mar-29-07
| | Domdaniel: I wonder if anyone ever posts a Wiki link to Anusol without humorous/ironic intent. Are there suppository chat-spaces? Is there balm in Gilead? I don't think I really want to know. Not about the suppositorian chatrooms, anyhow. But if there are languages with <suppository tenses> ... ha, tenses, perfect ... that could be interesting. I, ehm, s'pose. |
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| Mar-29-07 | | WBP: Dom> Been real, real, busy today, but wanted to wish you yet again the very best in your tourny! Best, Bill |
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| Mar-30-07 | | mckmac: <Domdaniel> Crikey,your top effort is deserving of some serious research..possible additions.. <Into the Mystic> Into the Morra <Take It Where You Find It> KGA,QGA,CCG etc <I wanna Roo You> The Kangaroo A.<Here Comes The Night>,so full points only awarded for Alekhines Defence.Tricky you say, that's a "Them" song, but is it not mainly known as a Van song(like GLORIA and Brown-Eyed Girl).These questions keep me awake at night.BTW,Good Luck in your tournament! |
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Mar-30-07
| | Domdaniel: <all> Thanks for the tournament best wishes... I'm off to get slaughtered now. Due to all the time spent enjoyably nattering here about Anusol, Van Morrison, Borges et al, I'm hopelessly under-prepared chessically. In fact, I'm probably *less* familiar now with the openings I supposedly play than I was this time last year. And there are several GMs playing. I'll get murdered. Time for a last soothing glance at The World vs Arno Nickel, and then... I can't go on. I'll go on...
- Gee, Batman, d'you get stage fright too?
- Batman is not afraid of anything. |
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Mar-30-07
| | Domdaniel: One final dilemma, common to far too many chessplayers, including those who invariably select the wrong answer. I've had 'work' to do, stuff to write, calls to make, all that nonsense, which partly accounts for the erratic hours I've been keeping. Now, with about an hour to spare, should I: (a) Shower, shave, select some smooth and sinister dark clothing, and turn up at least *looking* and *smelling* like I mean business... or (b) Try to cram 0.00004% of the available theory on the Winawer into my brain, and turn up as a shambling, smelly creature who could be mistaken for a derelict were it not for the fact that the room will be full of chessplayers anyhow? OK. I'm going for Plan A. I may even eat some food as well. Emergency nicotine supply, check. Uppers, downers, painkillers, check. We go.
Morituri. |
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| Mar-30-07 | | achieve: Plan A it is! Here's a man on a mission! GO!! Let your natural talent guide you! ( I like to cheer on) |
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| Mar-30-07 | | TheSlid: <chessmoron> <I'm a rebel, I like rock music.> Me too, I'm listening to <Mr Brightside> by <The Killers> as I post my latest inanity. |
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| Mar-30-07 | | TheSlid: <mckmac> I doubt the St George counts as a popular Black opening, so <Madame Gearge> would be out. Shame. I once with worked with someone (male, obviously) who was known as <Madam George>, for no reason other than it made us all laugh. |
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| Mar-30-07 | | chessmoron: Thanks to Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Rock was born! |
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| Mar-30-07 | | danielpi: Probably too late, but I vote <Plan A>. I don't think <Plan B> will do much good. Cramming for a chess game isn't nearly as effective as cramming for tests. Better to be refreshed. Good luck. |
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| Mar-30-07 | | mckmac: <TheSlid>Many believe that <The St.George> must always be considered to be 'correct'.I tend to agree,but am careful not to carp on too much,national pride and all that. |
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Mar-30-07
| | Domdaniel: Interim report: amazingly, I won in Rnd 1, and currently share the LEAD with GM Stuart Conquest, GM Alex Baburin, and the rest. It wasn't pretty, but it was a win.
<danielpi> is right -- far better to go in there feeling human. I don't *need* to know any lousy chess openings anyhow... Back tomorrow. |
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| Mar-31-07 | | achieve: Great going <Dom>!
<Stuart Conquest> Now that sounds like a man happy with his last name.. Besiege him! |
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Mar-31-07
| | Domdaniel: <update> Well, I'm not in the lead anymore. The day began with a heartbreaking loss to a master, by a single tempo in a pawn ending, after I'd missed a win. I really have to do something about my record in morning games. After that, my next two opponents offered draws in complex positions, and I was stupefied enough to accept. So, 50%. I go in with all guns blazing tomorrow and aim for a couple of wins... |
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| Mar-31-07 | | mckmac: Hey <Dom>,it sounds like you are really getting down and mixing it with them,and only just back in the game,straight in off the bench.Leave the tracksuit at home today.Your cheer squad here are talking embroidered caps already. |
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| Mar-31-07 | | Eyal: <Dom> Didn't you say once you've always had a tendency to draw a lot of games in tournaments? Anyway, what you describe sounds perfectly reasonable with 3 games in the same day (that must be brutal - is that the usual format in such tournaments?), especially after a depressing loss in the first one. And overall, 2/4 isn't bad at all. Good luck tomorrow!! (summon your killer instinct...) |
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| Apr-01-07 | | mack: Well done Dom, sounds like a highly respectable performrance thus far. Who was the master you ballsed up against, if you don't mind me asking? |
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| Apr-01-07 | | Tomlinsky: That's fabulous going Dom, well done. A very robust start all things considered, it sounds like any rust is of the surface kind. It bodes well for the last day, I hope it is being kind to you. |
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Apr-01-07
| | Domdaniel: Sorry, all, but it was far from fabulous. It was, in fact, ghastly. Once I stopped agreeing to draws my opponents simply found ways to force them. And then I lost again in the last round, to a guy rated 700 ELO points lower than the previous guy I'd lost to. He also made it, ie beating me, seem a hell of a lot easier. I *did* manage to reach a novel position on move 2 in one game (as white): 1.Nf3 Nc6 2.a3 (The April Fool Variation of the Munster Attack) ... it became a sort of Reversed Alekhine's after 2...e5 3.d4 e4 4.d5 exf3 5.dxc6 etc -- and I got a very nice position but only drew. And ratings can't be trusted at all anymore. My opponent here, like me, was playing in his 2nd tournament after years away. But he'd previously been higher, ca. 2200, and now the powers that be had seen fit to give him a rating of about 1580, which is at least 400 points too low. Of course, at our advanced age ratings are trivial things, so he's unlikely to complain. Will I ever attempt this again? Maybe I should stick to engine-assisted corr games, where braincells don't suddenly blow fuses. I think I need to go and lie down now. Argh. |
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| Apr-01-07 | | Knightlord: <Maybe I should stick to engine-assisted corr games, where braincells don't suddenly blow fuses.> The Shulman game is beginning to become quite interesting :-) |
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| Apr-01-07 | | TheSlid: <Domdaniel> You did fine, don't be so self pitying. Get in there and fight better next time. Guys of our sort of age need a goal. |
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