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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Frogspawn: Levity's Rainbow

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 254 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-17-07    mack: <What am I missing?> Nothing; it was just something I scrawled on the back of a fag packet (that I found) whilst stuck on the central line yesterday. I mean honestly, who throws themselves under a train during rush hour? What a vulgar way to commit suicide! Oct-17-07    SwitchingQuylthulg: Looks to me like 1.Qc3 and 1.Qa5 both work... (second rule of thumb in mate-in-two problems: your second hunch is nearly always correct.) Oct-17-07    achieve: <mack> Just in time! Dom got it too... Oct-17-07    Domdaniel: <Niels> Great minds have the same first hunches. Just ask Quasimodo. Careful with the Anna-Lise stuff, though. We don't want Jess or Deffi to think that we play with other girls... Oct-17-07    mack: <Looks to me like 1.Qc3 and 1.Qa5 both work... (second rule of thumb in mate-in-two problems: your second hunch is nearly always correct.)> I'm afraid Qa5 doesn't work... Oct-17-07    SwitchingQuylthulg: <I'm afraid Qa5 doesn't work...> Looks working enough to me. 1...Rc3 2.Nxc3#, 1...anything else 2.Qxc5#... riight? Oct-17-07    mack: <riight?> Yeah, right. I'd got me bishops on a8 and b7 the wrong way round. Sigh. Oct-17-07    Domdaniel: <Quy> I thought I found some flaw in Qh5, but I've forgotten it. I may cheat now... Oct-17-07    achieve: <We don't want Jess or Deffi to think that we play with other girls...> Not even one? *cack* (<mack> taught me that word a few moments ago ;-) Oct-17-07    mack: <A gangrenous arse drama?> I'm so pleased with this one that I insist by tomorrow you've all imagined that this is a cryptic crossword clue and have come up with an answer that fits. In the meantime I've got to go to Stepney Green for my sins. Love and cooked puzzles, O.D. Melinda Oct-17-07    Domdaniel: <mack> It's a nicely constructed problem -- all it lacks is the fiendishness that the heavyweight problemistas provide, ensuring one's first try has a tiny hole in it. Here, there's a plausible move -- and it works. Which is why we got it. It'd go nicely in a problem book, though, as entry-level practice before working up to the fiendish stuff. At least it wasn't one of those where the only solution involves the most distant and seemingly irrelevant piece taking a small step backwards. Oct-17-07    Domdaniel: <Stepney Green> Spy net? Renege. Oct-17-07    Domdaniel: Calling <Mating Net> ... I have discovered a superb collection of Dutch games compiled by <Mating Net>, concentrating on my favorite (Classical, Iljin-Zhenevsky) lines. But Mating Net's chessforum seems to be shut, and he hasn't kibitzed for a while, though I know he's around somewhere. Hey, MatingNet... would a free <Frogspawn> subscription tempt you out of seclusion? Oh, well. Thanks anyway. I probably just sent a few Dutchies (all kinds) to check out your work. Dank u wel. Oct-17-07    achieve: On my way, sir. Impressive game collections! Hoogachtend, NTA Oct-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: That's right, gentlemen, rub it in. You know FULL WELL I can't type aything more risque than "heck" due to being DINGED and WARNED for <multiple posting violations>, and here you guys are going nuts. Well it was all very funny, at least. Vicariously yours, JFQ Oct-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: Oh also <Dom> I found myself agreeing <yet again> with your <Frogspawn Editorial>. Go figure. Regards, Efim Geller Oct-18-07    achieve: <Jess> <You know FULL WELL I can't type aything more risque than "heck"> Zip it, cry baby! Me heart's bloody bleed'n' for ya... Regards, Liam E. N. Dod Oct-18-07    mack: <I am noddle: It's a nicely constructed problem...> For a second then I thought you were talking about the cryptic crossword teaser. Which, by the way, I see you've all failed. Need to come up with an answer myself now... I've been really getting into chess composition after I found a couple of copies of The Problemist downstairs in the Royal Bank of Scotland. It's a loopy world with so many specific rules as to what a puzzle can and can't contain, hundreds of mad symbols, &c &c. I still don't really 'get it' at all, but whenever I'm stuck somewhere with a pen - like on the central line earlier this week - I try to make up a puzzle. Hopefully in time I might come up with something good; although, like penicillin and Tutankhamen's tomb, I'll probably stumble across it by mistake. I DONE M'LAD Oct-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: Regards, ()()()(()()() Oct-18-07    Benzol: <Domdaniel> You've been recommended by <jessicafischerqueen> for this question that I posed on her forum and I hope you can help me. <<jess> I've got a problem which might be right up your street. Many years ago ( circa 1968 or so IIRC ) there was a British science-fiction/supernatural/thriller series made called "Journey To the Unknown". I think it may have screened in the US under the title "Out Of The Unknown" or something similar. It usually starred a well known American actor supported by a bevy of stalwart British actors. I've never seen it since the 1960's but I believe it is now available as a 6 DVD set priced at around US $50. What I would like to know is if you or anyone reading this would know of the sets ISBN number. Can you help me out here? Thanks in advance.> Oct-18-07    Domdaniel: <Benzol> Sorry, I can't recall the series, and I was probably a Batman fan in 1968. The only thing I can think of is the Quatermass series, made in the 1950s and 60s. I'll do some digging and see if anything turns up. Meanwhile, somebody else may know. We get a lot of sci-fi fans and extraterrestrials around here. I'm a part-time Stargate buff myself, but Jessica would like to 'cure' me. <ISBN number? Click. Yes. We know *all* your human ISBN numbers. In fact we gave them to you. It makes intergalactic bureaucracy much simpler.> Oct-18-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Multiple violations or not, it *must* be safe for you to use the same vocabulary as anyone else... mustn't it? Was it Harry Truman who threatened "all-out thermonuclear heck"? -- he'd rather blow up the planet than say Beelzebub's domain name. And they jailed a guy in Poland for hacking Google so that any search for <kutas> -- the male member, seemingly an insult to Poles, which is ironic given that they're all, well, *Poles* -- went straight to the Polish President's website. Of course, Kaczynski *is* a kutas, and so is his brother the prime minister. Everywhere else, we talk metaphorically of politicians having an 'evil twin'. In Poland they have the real thing, running the country between 'em... PS. Seen any recent pics of David Cronenberg? He's starting to look like Samuel Beckett. Spooky. Oct-18-07    Domdaniel: <Benzol> You're completely right -- it was 'Journey to the Unknown', 17 episodes circa 1968, and it's for sale at $49.99 from skaryguyvideo.com (or somewhere like that...) No number, however. Isn't ISBN for books? I didn't know they used the same code for DVDs. Confused. Oct-18-07    Domdaniel: I happened to look at the wikipedia entry for Walter Benjamin yesterday. The links were superb, but the (very recently edited) main biog was asinine crap, with misspellings and clumsy syntax. Clearly written by an idiot. I was, however, amused to see that Benji had to flee Paris in 1940 because "the French Defence failed". Good thing nobody told Botvinnik. Oct-18-07    WBP: <Dom> <I was, however, amused to see that Benji had to flee Paris in 1940 because "the French Defence failed". Good thing nobody told Botvinnik.> Hilarious! 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