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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 233 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: A third affirmation that <Dvorjak's End Game Book> is the dog's nuts of chess literature. Aug-23-07    mack: If I'm honest, I used a certain phrase once too many in that last post. Aug-23-07    Domdaniel: <Is he <billy bunter's> brother?> No, that's Buckminster Fuller, begetter of the geodesic dome and the buckyball... "Caesar adsum jam forte" "Yarooh!" Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: <if I'm honest> Do I win a prize? Aug-23-07    mack: <begetter of the geodesic dome and the buckyball...> Oh lordy. One of the proposed names for that infamous drug-addled covers band Taghairm was 'John Crowe Ransome and The Buckminster Fullerenes'. No, that's not some sort of deep joke - just a sad truth sparked by the mere mention of buckyballs. Aug-23-07    Domdaniel: <Dvoretsky> I'm not really sure why it's so good, but it is -- and certainly not too obscure or difficult or intimidating. Any significantly simpler endgames book would not be much use, at least beyond beginner level. I particularly like the little 'mishaps' he cites. They seem to stick in the memory better, almost as if one had played the game oneself rather than seen it in a book. Maybe that's the secret. Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: John Crow Ransomed a member of the American school of <New Criticism>. Do I win a prize? Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: Robert Tucker, student of <Bucky fuller>, oversees the construction of most geodesic domes in North America to the present day. Do I win a prize? Aug-23-07    mack: Yup, the 'tragicomedies' are surely the key instructional tool. You only ever think it's a good idea to rub yer nads on an electric fence once. Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Coriolanus> is a tragicomedy Do I win a prize? Aug-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: Heh I have 10,00 posts now. Do I win a prize? I don't want anyone to feel jealous. Aug-23-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Your prize, Madam, is a trip in a flying machine, high above the North Pole or the Pacific Ocean or both, somewhere exotic anyhow, landing in ancient Asia where you will learn everyone to talk Canadian. Enjoy. My original note of congrats -- as posted during an earlier false alarm -- still holds, of course. As does the one I just stuck in your forum. Hey. Don't stop now or anything, eh? Tomorrow the world... Aug-24-07    jessicafischerqueen: thanks for the most excellent prize and wellwishes <Fearless Leader>. Heh HELP Aug-24-07    Domdaniel: Her majesty the Queen is now in mid-move. On this auspicious day all her fans are requested to glance briefly at the sky and smile. Or you could invent your own apotropaic ritual, but that one works for me... Aug-24-07    jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Fearless Leader>. Yes in a scant (carry the four)... er... 10 hours? I'll be winging my way across the <mighty Negev desert> on the way to what I believe to be <South> Korea. It's my first "real" job. Ack. I was hoping my first "real" job would be rodeo clown, but I didn't take the correct electives for my "A levels." Aug-24-07    Domdaniel: <Jess!> Still *here*!! <It's my first "real" job.> I never quite managed to hold down one of those, but I was an unlikely security guard for a summer once. That was pretty real. Is it very late at night or very early morning in BC, or has it ceased to matter? I'm off too now, actually -- little local 'trip' to Dublin -- so next time we talk you should be in Hyundai or Taekwondo or wherever... fly high, ma reine. Aug-24-07    WBP: <Dom> Morning, sir. I'm out all day but wanted to quickly look in before leaving. Seen you and <Mack> on Carlyle yesterday. You put it precisely; my political instincts are also riled at times, but Sartor's a fantastic book full of amazing passages. Glad to know you were similarly impressed. Aug-24-07    mack: <WBP> Yes, Carlyle's politics were a bit dodgy but his prose was as rich as could be. As I say, never miss an opportunity to write 'DRY RUBBISH SHOT HERE!' on walls. One by-product of last night's chat, however, is that I can now no longer hear the Top Cat theme tune without thinking of Carlyle: 'Close friends get to call him T.C. provided it's with dignity...' Aug-25-07    jessicafischerqueen: Hi dom mack and bill I just flew to Korea and boy are my arms tired. are you guys STILL going on about Carlysle? Should I read him too? Will I win a prize if I do? Aug-25-07    mack: So what's the sitch with Korea? Tastes like chicken, I suppose. Aug-25-07    jessicafischerqueen: Hi Maack!! I left a detailed <travel blog> in my forum. It's all so exciting so far. I lost my sunglasses, but have not been robbed or killed yet, to my knowledge. Aug-25-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <have not been robbed or killed yet, to my knowledge.> It's that last phrase that leaves room for concern, epistemologicallywise. The ancient Art of Cultural Stereotyping tells us that wily inscrutable Asiatics with advanced degrees in Reverse Engineering are skilled at deconstructing the clumsy products of the West, and producing perfect simulacra thereof in their traditional 'sweatshops'. If you *had* been robbed and killed, they might not have informed you in their haste to build an ersatz Jessica. But *we* will know. Unless we're dummies already, of course. The sunglasses are being cloned even as we speak, and will be returned to you containing a GPS tracker chip and a neutron bomb. Hold on, that's Al-Qaida, not Korea. Did I tell you my theory that the worldwide spread of Al-Qaida is constrained by the translation of the name into the local vernacular? It means 'base', 'root' or 'fundament' in Arabic -- which is OK as far as Fundamentalism goes (although any word containing 'fun', 'men' and 'mental' must be ideologically suspect). And 'fundament' also means 'bottom', which has unsavory connotations in several, well, tongues. Neither "Arsch von der Herrgott" (Deutsch) nor "Arse bilong Bigpela" (Tok Pisin) is the kind of name that leads to mass conversions. Anyways, the sect repellant -- you did pack some, yeah? -- should take care of these. Aug-25-07    Domdaniel: <FROGSPAWN> Spring Publications... Coming soon: "The Semiotics of Suckpoppet Theater", the first truly original medium/artform of the 21st century. Polyphonic, intervocalic, loud and funny -- the introversion of the extradiegetic Adversary. WBP: Shagspere or Wharfinger? Precursors include Milton's Satan, Bill and Ben the Flowerpet Men, Commedia del' arte, and Space Invaders. Aug-25-07    Ragh: Just stopping by to see how things are going at Daniel's place. <WBP: Shagspere or Wharfinger? > Probably both. <Anyways, the sect repellant -- you did pack some, yeah? -- should take care of these.> Pepper spray helps too. Aug-25-07    jessicafischerqueen: there are no insects so far in Daegu. I suspect they were all shot, so I'm not mentioning it to anyone. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 233 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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