Domdaniel Member since Aug-11-06 · Last seen Jan-10-19 no bio

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Jan-08-19 Domdaniel chessforum    Domdaniel: Blank Reg: "They said there was no future - well, this is it."      Jan-06-19 Kibitzer's Café    Domdaniel: Haaarry Neeeeds a Brutish Empire... https://youtu.be/ZioiHctAnac      Jan-06-19 G McCarthy vs M Kennefick, 1977    Domdaniel: Maurice Kennefick died over the new year, 2018-2019. RIP. It was many years since I spoke to him. He gave up chess, I reckon, towards the end of the 80s, though even after that he was sometimes lured out for club games. I still regard this game, even after so many years, as the ...      Jan-06-19 Maurice Kennefick    Domdaniel: Kennefick died over the 2018-19 New Year. Formerly one of the strongest players in Ireland, he was the first winner of the Mulcahy tournament, held in honour of E.N. Mulcahy, a former Irish champion who died in a plane crash. I played Kennefick just once, and had a freakish win, ...      Jan-06-19 Anand vs J Fedorowicz, 1990    Domdaniel: <NBZ> -- Thanks, NBZ. Enjoy your chortle. Apropos nothing in particular, did you know that the word 'chortle' was coined by Lewis Carroll, author of 'Alice in Wonderland'? I once edited a magazine called Alice, so I can claim a connection. 'Chortle' requires the jamming ...      Jan-06-19 chessgames.com chessforum    Domdaniel: <al wazir> - It's not easy to go back through past Holiday Present Hunts and discover useful information. Very few people have played regularly over the years -- even the players who are acknowledged as best, <SwitchingQuylthulg> and <MostlyAverageJoe> have now ...      Jan-05-19 Wesley So    Domdaniel: Wesley is a man of his word. Once again, I am impressed by his willingness to stick to commitments.      Jan-04-19 G Neave vs B Sadiku, 2013    Domdaniel: Moral: if you haven't encountered it before, take it seriously. Remember Miles beating Karpov with 1...a6 at Skara. Many so-called 'irregular' openings are quite playable.      Dec-30-18 Robert Enders vs S H Langer, 1968   Domdaniel: <HMM> - Heh, well, yes. I also remembered that Chuck Berry had a hit with 'My Ding-a-ling' in the 1970s. I'm not sure which is saddest -- that the author of Johnny B. Goode and Memphis Tennessee and Teenage Wedding - among other short masterpieces - should sink to such ...      Dec-30-18 T Gelashvili vs T Khmiadashvili, 2001    Domdaniel: This is the game I mean: Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 193 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-16-07    mack: <Originally pronounced 'cunny', it was a common word for 'rabbit' -- until the 18th century rabbit meant only the baby animal, while the coney was the adult. > I'm from Suffolk; many a cunny lingers round these parts. Jun-16-07    mack: <shibboleth> One of the many delightful words I had to cut out of that bit pile o' crap I sent you. Upper word limits are a pain in the arse. Jun-17-07    Open Defence: <Nirogichu> now i know what to call my next novelty in the Ruy Lopez.... Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: <mack> Such a delightful word, that 'shibboleth'. Anyone can experience distaste or dislike for somebody else's pronunciation -- even I wince sometimes and start to grind my teeth, despite being a committed observer of eccentricities. But those Old Testament guys and their savage old brute of a deity really knew how to deal with phonetic variation: "And they saith 'sibboleth' [instead of] 'shibboleth' ... and they slew them". And lo the waters ran red with the blood of the poor lisping yokels who said 'sibboleth'. I can imagine the last words of one such victim of the Shemitic broadsword: "Sit, sit, sit! What a sambles! I sould never have come here -- that sitty blade looks very siny and sarp. The same of it! I sould be on a sip to Salimar through sark-infested sallows, not having my sitty head cut off, with a sort, sarp, sock. Sag it!" Jun-17-07    Open Defence: too much coffee <DOM> ? Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: <Ziggurat> Mrs Quoad, wasn't it? Jellied nettle with menthol and ragwort, that sort of thing? I must revisit it myself... Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Too *much* coffee? Why, I've hardly begun... Jun-17-07    Open Defence: <Domdaniel> do you like Jethro Tull ? I can imagine you to be a very Ian Andersony person... Jun-17-07    mack: One more cup of coffee for the road... Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: <coffee> ... in fact I'm half-a-pint behind my usual coffee schedule, as I spilled the 2nd mug in its entirety. No fatalities, thankfully. It only landed on carpet. But that carpet will never fly again... Jun-17-07    Open Defence: <Dom> I thought you used a broom to fly.. a la Potter... Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> - <Jethro Tull> Hmm. I admit that I *used* to like Jethro Tull in the 70s... I was young, and punk hadn't happened yet, and records like 'Thick as a Brick' seemed frightfully clever. <"So you ride yourselves over the fields And you make all your animal deals But your wise men don't know how it feels To be thick as a brick."> But then I went right off 'em. Years later, a visiting minor popstar found some Jethro discs in my record collection and got terribly excited, and went on to play them over and over. But he was also a Genesis fan, so it kinda follows. I never regained interest myself. Though I can remember quite a few words (like 'vadersletsutsikter'), and I still like the flute+drums combo. Will that do? Jun-17-07    Domdaniel: "One more cup of coffee for the *toad*." If you please. Jun-17-07    mack: Oi Dom, have you been following Dr Who? I've had a million and a four issues with RTD's interpretation of the show, but it seems like they've *finally* figured out how to do it. The past four episodes have been sublime, and plus... they've brought back The Master, which can only be a good thing. Jun-17-07    Open Defence: <Dom> hmmmm interesting.. I thought you might be a Genesis fan.. some of the posts in here seem like a plagiarized "Lamb lies down.." Jun-17-07    WBP: <Basically -- never eat *anything* described as 'pudding' anywhere in Britain or Ireland. You will either suffer total social ostracisation or die an agonizing death, or both, not necessarily in that order> My ancient Anglo-Saxon blood stirs heartily at the thought of some of those puddings of odds and ends. Hmmmm. Yummy! Yeah, right! YUCK!!! Jun-17-07    Open Defence: yeah one of my veggie friends nearly barfed when he found to his horror a black pudding in fact is a sausage type thingy.... Jun-17-07    WBP: <Open Defence> <yeah one of my veggie friends nearly barfed when he found to his horror a black pudding in fact is a sausage type thingy....> Actually, there's a show on the Food Cannel where this guy goes around the world sampling some of the more exotic (for Western tastes) foods. And Anthony Bourdain, the 'enfante terrible' of the kitchen world (and something of a hero of mine and a damn fine writer to boot--I highly recommend Kitchen Confidential) has eaten some interesting things on his shows. Jun-17-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>!!! Yer back!! And no <Hey Ho> for me at my place???? Right! That's it!! Did you get the <beemail> i sentchya? DOMS BACK, DOMS BACK!!!!! rings bell to warn the Revolutionary army. Paul the Beard Jun-17-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Bill and Deffi>! so THIS is where all the action is today. And I thought this lazy Sunday morning was as quiet as the Queen's ____! Guess I was just in the wrong forum. Jun-17-07    WBP: <Jess> Oh, we're talking up a storm about fine English cuisine, the excellent puddings that contain uncooked stuff that wolverines would shun and the like. What a splendid topic! Jun-17-07    jessicafischerqueen: Heh. still catching up still on the posts. <dom> guess how they pronounce <Kant> (for real) in rural <Bavaria>? My friend <Janine> pronounced it that way in Montreal, and I had to "explain." And, you'll be pleased to know that in <Toronto> there is a fine restaurant on <Bloor> near <Young> called, of course, <The Spotted Dick>> Some kind of duffish raisin dessert, I think. Jun-17-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Bill> I'm still a page back, got to catch up on the conversation. No doubt by the time I do, <Dom> will have scarpered again. Jun-17-07    WBP: <<dom> guess how they pronounce <Kant> (for real) in rural <Bavaria>? My friend <Janine> pronounced it that way in Montreal, and I had to "explain."> Did you know that in the '96 US presidential election, the news media in Iran had difficulty trying to talk about Bob Dole, as it seems "Dole" is an indecent or unacceptable word (having to do with male genetalia, I believe) in Iranian. Jun-17-07    jessicafischerqueen: Good gravy as soon as I arrive everyone leaves. Coincidence? Of course it is!! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 193 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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