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 236 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-01-07    Domdaniel: Nothing like puzzles from the unconscious, as Freud nearly said. Dream on, mack. Duff, it ain't. Sep-01-07    jessicafischerqueen: ackkdd Sep-01-07    mack: <Dream on, mack. Duff, it ain't.> Heh. Bloody Viv; if it weren't for him, such puns would not be possible right now. Then again, how do we know the internet would even exist without Stanshall? Sep-01-07    jessicafischerqueen: When does Mexico start? I know I could find out on our home page here, but if you can believe it I'm too lazy to scroll down and hit the "home" link. It's Sunday here, for Cripe sake. Ooh there's a fab temple up the hill here, I've decided to convert to Buddhism. Sep-02-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Sunday here too, which means it's probably ... what, Tuesday? ... in Korea by now. Everyone I know seems to be going or gone Buddhist. I claim to have been one all along, just without the discipline (I got chess for that) or the meditations (like Marcel Duchamp, je suis respirateur -- a full-time breather). Also, for my sins, I expect to be reincarnated as a teabag. <"When does Mexico start?"> -- is that from the Prophecies of Montezuma, or something? Sep-02-07    jessicafischerqueen: heh I'm not allowed to use toilet paper (not a joke), so we don't say "Montezuma" around these parts. Sep-02-07    Red October: <Montezuma's Revenge> will there be human sacrifice ? does the offering have to be a virgin ? Sep-02-07    Domdaniel: Toilet paper is obsolete anyhow, thanks to the internet. Or is that newspapers? Much the same, really... Sep-02-07    mack: When my dad was about ten, Manchester United (whom he unfortunately supported) were playing against Ipswich (where he then lived, and whom I support now). He was desperate to go, and had saved up his pennies for a ticket, but he came down very heavily with the flu on that Saturday morning, and could barely get out of bed. He didn't go in the end, and was instead forced to listen to the game on the radio. Somehow - and this would never happen now of course - Ipswich won by some highly unlikely margin, like 4-1. His dad - my grandfather, that is, who I now realise looked remarkably like Aron Nimzowitsch, and had a fondness for the word 'system' - saw this as a sign. 'Hah!' he said. 'Bet you're glad you didn't go now!' My dad's reply was simple: 'Well, if I'd gone we might have won.' Sep-02-07    Domdaniel: <mack> These family connections with Herr Aaron are great things, aren't they? I worked out recently that *my* grandfather died - long before I was born - in the same year as Nimzowitsch and of the same condition, pneumonia. And then another bunch of relatives decided to get born and grow up in Copenhagen, where Nimzo lived. Spooky, huh? You realise that according to the definition of the word used in certain places (the American South or the West of Ireland, for starters) this set of resonances makes us *cousins*? You, me, and Nimzo all... Sep-02-07    mack: <You realise that according to the definition of the word used in certain places (the American South or the West of Ireland, for starters) this set of resonances makes us *cousins*?> Gulp. Does that mean I'm not allowed to fancy you any more? Sep-02-07    Domdaniel: <mack> I'm sure they had incest in Mississippi and Mayo and so on. Wasn't that what the civil wars - in both countries - were all about? But there's also the rule named after the famous Argentinian grandmaster, <Con Sanguinetti> -- as in, how many degrees of Con Sanguinetti is it if you marry your <first cousin, trice removed>. Oops. That's, er, *twice* removed. Or *thrice*. Whatever. That sounds almost like I'd been saving it up. Hadn't. Honest. Honest Singular First Peoples. Sep-03-07    mack: An esteemed political commentator once told me about the best bit of graffiti he ever saw: INCEST IS GREAT - ROLL YOUR OWN Sep-03-07    Domdaniel: I can't quote my favorite graffito, even though it's only two words long -- the first of those being the F-word, usually followed by 'off'. In this case it was followed by "socity". Sic. <@#$% socity> -- an incisive comment on the world we inhabit, not to mention its education system. Unless it refers to some kind of cooperative, or what the French call a <Société Anonyme> ... Sep-03-07    mack: One of the most confusing graffitos I've seen was on the back of a shed in Paris - it read: 'UP THE NHS, YES?' I have no idea what that means. Sep-03-07    WBP: <Dom> <Mack> I once saw a photograph (in National Lampoon's True facts section) of a spray-painted message on a highway overpass that read, "I love you, Sweatheart." Although this is a misspelling and not a typo, being one of the typographically challenged crowd, I feel for the guy. BTW, <Dom>: I always thought you were kind of a veteran rpesence on Chessgames, given the number of posts you've made, the people you know, and so on; I just noticed that you only joined a year ago. Happy anniversary! Sep-03-07    jessicafischerqueen: HAPy anaviersy Dom!! We love you! Sep-03-07    Domdaniel: <Bill> Why, thank you. It means I get to expire soon, and do my phoenix-like rising from the ashes routine. I had been vaguely around before that, under another identity -- but <El Domo> was only born a year ago, when I lost my old password and decided to reinvent myself as a polymonomaniac silent blabbermouth. It worked, in part. Sep-03-07    jessicafischerqueen: dom what are you doing up at six AM?? Sep-03-07    Open Defence: actually it should be about 9 pm in Ireland right ? Sep-03-07    WBP: <Dom> I must take off, but now I do remember that "other identity" thing, though you'll always be <Sir Dom> to me! Sep-03-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> And you too, ma reine. Congratulations on your queenside breakthrough at the North Korean <Nukes and Art> talks. Apparently Dear Leader is not just the very foundation of the juche philosophy, and a sacred mountain in his spare time, but also author of books like "How to make movies", "How to do Operas" and "How to compose pomes". I suspect he also wrote <My System> but was too modest to use his own name, so he let poor, mad Nimzo take credit. A paragon! [have I won a government-sponsored trip to North Korea yet...?] Sep-03-07    Eyal: <Open Defence: actually it should be about 9 pm in Ireland right?> Yeah, but it's 6 am in Korea, and Jess is operating on the theory that "time zones" are fictional... Sep-03-07    jessicafischerqueen: yes! But it's boring since the "no nukes" thing. I mean really. Sep-03-07    jessicafischerqueen: ahI CAPPINE!! Are the games on yet? I predict Jan Timman wins. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 236 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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