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 240 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-14-07    Domdaniel: <twin phoenix> ... nah, I'll skip the mythological-creature puns, for now. Actually, I've just been reading something by Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World) on the subject of scientific (non-magical) thinking, and some of it could be applied to our chess efforts. F'rinstance: "Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just because it's yours. It's only a way-station in the pursuit of knowledge. Ask yourself why you like the idea. Compare it fairly with the alternatives. See if you can find reasons for rejecting it. If you don't, others will." Sep-14-07    Domdaniel: <ZSSTR #3> Here is a recap of <mack>'s last problem -- sounds uncomfortably like Fermat's Last Theorem, when I phrase it like that, but never mind -- which nobody offered much comment on, apart from me asking some very nitpicky pedantic quesions. So here's the FEN again... click for larger view White, to play, plays 1.f8, with any of four possible promotions. Just one of them, we are assured, does NOT allow White to mate *with a Bishop* in at most five moves. Which promotion fails? Just to get us restarted, here's a line I found: 1.f8(N) Ka8 2.g8(B) Kb8 3.Nd7+ Ka8 4.a6 bxa6 5.Bd5# ... which is all completely forced and suggests that the Knight is *not* our suspect... Sep-14-07    Domdaniel: <ZSSTR> OK, time's up. Heh. Two more lines: 1.f8(R) Ka8 2.Rh8 Kb8 3.g8(B) Ka8 4.Kd7 Kb8 5.Bf7# and the almost identical 1.f8(Q) Ka8 2.Qh8 Kb8 3.g8(B) Ka8 4.Kd7 Kb8 5.Ba2# So it looks like the Bishop -- heh heh, as we'd all suspected -- is the one who fails the test... Unless somebody has a mate in 5 after 1.f8(B) ... ?? Sep-14-07    Domdaniel: <more of the same lunacy> Actually, there's a mate in 4 after 1.f8(B): 1.f8(B) Ka8 2.g8(Q) Kb8 3.Kd7 Ka8 4.Bh6# SO? Do discovered checkmates not count or something? Now I'm confused. Sep-14-07    mack: <Dom> Gulp. I may have to apologise profusely in a minute; let me look at your work. In the meantime, I'm going to follow in the footsteps of all the best crooks who have been caught out and run to Mexico. See you there... Sep-14-07    mack: <Dom: Now I'm confused.> Yup, looks like I have to apologise profusely. I can't quite express how terribly sorry I am about this, seeing as a)it was supposedly quite a tricky puzzle and b) you were the only one that was bothering to try and crack it. You've been had. This has proven to be a waste of your considerable talents. Next time I post a 'puzzle' here, I'll ensure that it's at least half-baked. Sorry again, old chum. Sep-14-07    Domdaniel: <mack> Not at all. I think I prefer 'em this way, actually. Munch. Sep-14-07    WBP: <Dom> <Mack> I have been following the puzzle caper (also a new dance), but as pawn promotion is by far the biggest of my many weaknesses in chess (I always select the wrong piece), I have refrained from offering any undoubtedly incorrect suggestions. Here is my unrelated question: whenever I pick up the receiver of my phone when I’m online, the most hideous sound imaginable is emitted from the earpiece (I notice the same thing when I dial up with my computer speakers on). Really, this sound is so impossibly annoying--the electronic equivalent to fingernails scraped down a blackboard, or, as I prefer to think of it, the innards of a mechanical insect being plucked as the thing screams in pain. Now, as we can apparently deliver Muzak to virtually every elevator in the world (and this, indeed, is the real fruit of civilization), how come we have this sound? Who decided that it was to my benefit to hear this sound, should I wish to? Do you have something similar occur with your phone? And what exactly is it that I'm hearing? Sep-15-07    JoeWms: Strange expression. Humble pie was made from umbles by 'umble servants. Sep-15-07    mack: Incidentally, I'm not quite ready to let my runt die yet. I'll probably make up some sort of grossly unfair rule that 'solves' the puzzle in a minute. Did you see Kramnik's win yesterday? Absolutely brutal. The guy makes chess look so easy. Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Bill> I think you're hearing raw data in the form of noise. I rather like it myself. As John Cage said "Every sound we make is music and everyone is in the best seat". Heh. Bet the old poser was as tone-deaf as I am. Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Bill> Hang on a second... how did you become the world's foremost exponent of sockpuppet kabuki without broadband? If you've been orchestrating your team via a dial-up connection -- which is what it sounds like -- I take all three of my hats off to you, sir. Which reminds me. Must finish my analysis of the semiotics of sockpuppet kabuki some day soon... Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Joe> -- <strange expression> It is, isn't it? I haven't actually looked it up recently, but my addled memory insists that 'humble pie' was an actual dish made of animal innards, known as <umbles>. It also tells me that 'addled' was originally something that happened to eggs. Stranger and stranger. Our speech has fossil leftovers of meals eaten centuries ago. Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Frogspawn> Notice to Frogspawn subscribers, occasional readers of this gibberish, and anyone else who's passing. If I and/or this forum vanish off the face of the earth during the next week or so, do not be alarmed. No foul play should be suspected. It will simply mean that I've forgotten to renew my CG subscription, which is about to run out. And I'm quite capable of not getting it done in time, with all the vacillation on my agenda. Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: And yes, I *know* I could have done it in the time taken to type the last message. But life just isn't like that, is it? Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Ohio> A bit late, but ... <I this therefore I that>. Sep-15-07    Open Defence: <Dom> you'd better renew quickly.. I wouldn't like Idle Nomads mono larking around the place ;-p Sep-15-07    JoeWms: <WBP> Telephone receiver noise. Look in dictionary or Google for <white noise> and <pink noise>. Joe Sep-15-07    WBP: <Joe> Yes, thanks. I'm actully a white noise junkie--can't sleep without a fan running, even during winter. It's almost like an aural feng shui kind of thing, I guess. <Dom> Thanks for the John Cage reference. I've come to admire very much his ideas concerning music, sound, and how we fill "silence" with sounds, and how he's made us much more aware of how we listen and what we're listening to. I shall suspend my (essentially bourgeois) remarks concerning these electronic sounds, and give them a second try. (BTW, this same thing happened when I saw Blue Velvet the first time, in 1986. I thoroughly hated it, but I soon realized that that was a far more legitimate (or authentic) response to a film than the usual [at the coffee shop after the film] "Oh, I liked it. Let's have some coffee. How's your aunt with rickets doing?" I've now seen it over fifty times, and am engrossed by it.) I love paradigm shifts! Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Bill> I started misreading that as "saw the Velvet Underground" in "1968" and I was winding up to be *soooo* jealous... then I saw that you meant the Lynch movie. And a somewhat more recent year. A masterpiece. I've got a DVD of his 'Inland Empire' in front of me but I haven't managed to watch it yet. Sep-15-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Yes, old Idle would have to be dug up, wouldn't he? You're right, we can't have that... Sep-16-07    Domdaniel: <Wry, dry laconic understatement of the month Award, #1>: <Brankat> in WBP's place, responding to the suggestion that Tal looked ill in 1993: <Tal was more than just ill in '93. R.I.P. Mikhail Tal, 1936 - 1992.> Sep-16-07    WBP: <Dom> <I've got a DVD of his 'Inland Empire' in front of me but I haven't managed to watch it yet> Yeah, I just picked it up but have not been able to find the time to watch it. And as if there are not enough distractions for me, some idiots have decided to have a chess tournament in Mexico! Can you imagine that! The nerve! Yeah, I moved to New York (in 1979) rougly a decade too late (though in '68 I was too young at 12-13 years old to move to NYC!). Would have loved to catch the V.U., and god knows how many other things when it was still a wild and wholly town. It began to tame in the early '80s, I believe. I still get a kick out of catching (when they are broadcast on one of the movie channels) films like Panic in Neddle Park and Serpico, which catch the city in that raw and still decadent period! Sep-16-07    Domdaniel: <Bill> Neddle Park? I thought it was Noodle Park. And as for 'wholly town' ... if these be typos, there's some fiendish method to 'em. I can actually claim to have seen the Velvets live -- one at a time, in different places, spread across about 15 years from 1979 onwards. Something, I suppose. Sep-16-07    mack: <Something, I suppose.> Oh definitely something. I've not seen any of Velvets live and I'm not sure if it's worth it now, so I'm incredibly jealous. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 240 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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