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   Jan-08-19 Domdaniel chessforum (replies)
 
Domdaniel: Blank Reg: "They said there was no future - well, this is it."
 
   Jan-06-19 Kibitzer's Café (replies)
 
Domdaniel: Haaarry Neeeeds a Brutish Empire... https://youtu.be/ZioiHctAnac
 
   Jan-06-19 G McCarthy vs M Kennefick, 1977 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
Domdaniel: This is the game I mean: Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922
 
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Frogspawn: Levity's Rainbow

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Oct-23-07  achieve: RIchtig!! Ich brauche zeit zum defrocken, bitte!!

Erzáhle mir noch ein mal náchstes morgen!

I move along those lines?

Wie as auch sei, ich hatte viel spass, und ich weiss das ist úberflússig zu sagen.

Ich bin superfizial okay, ja? Mein schach freund Júrgen wird dass verifieren. Aber Es war sehr vergnúglich, auf jeder fall, nein?

Scheisse! Ich brauche zu work on meine lucidité, Papa. Ratzi allein ist nicht genúgend, das ist klar.

Biss náchstes mal, endspiel virtuoso.

(somehow, this German sounds cheap pimpish, reading back..)

Oct-23-07
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  Domdaniel: <Henge> It's cool now, you're forgiven. These bouts of binge drinking and ethnic alcoreductionism never last.

"I don't want to drown in someone else's wine." (Bob Dylan, turning water into words and walking on them)

"I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet" (Joni Mitchell -- sure, Joni, I believe ya, d'you want me shaken or stirred?)

"Red red wine, go to my head, make me forget..." (Neil Diamond... such a crisp, lucid little pop chanson I suspect he never touched the stuff)

And a 'rarity', also by Neil Diamond (his record company removed it from his album 'Velvet Gloves and Spit' -- if you wanna sell a zillion platters to blue-rinsed boomers and their Moms, you sing about, um, seagulls, denim, and loose Southron women with names like Cracklin' Rosie... not "dope", dammitall.)

"Pot, pot, give me some pot,
Forget what you are, you can be what you're not." (N.Diamond, Pot Smoker's Song, 1968 -- not exactly Lou Reed's 'Heroin', now, is it? Or even 'Anadin' by Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias?)

"Nothin' acts faster than anadin
'Cept maybe soluble disprin
An-ahhh-din." (I've 'seen' Mr Reed perform *all* of 'The Bells' with his back turned to the audience and the house lights turned on. In a boxing stadium. Some kind of obscure protest, I think, against 'breadheads'.

The historical concept of the breadhead is much too obscure to be explicable here. Too incroyable, frankly, to anyone born after 1970 -- except Jessica, who knows all this because ... well, because.

Canadians know *The Secret*. But it's so secret they don't even tell it to *other* Canadians.

The Irish had it for a moment, but forgot it. And the British rather suspect that they left it behind in India by mistake. The Indians haven't found it, and the Americans have never heard of it. Oh, and the Dutch get by without it.

That covers all the ethnic stereotypes, I believe.

If your ethnic group, tribe or community has not been mentioned here, *and it matters*, <Frogspawn> extends its sympathy and its tongue.

We can do Litotes, us. Also the odd homonym. And, since it's Limerick week:

Come down of that dock, will you, Otis
For musicians are dying by rotas
If you fall in the bay
Then whatever I say
Will be Grob's Opening done in Litotes.

Oct-23-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Jess> ... <at home I feel like a tourist ...> ... the drama binge goes on ...

- So, then, did yeh get away for a break anywhere this year?

- Why, yes, I did. I went to Limerick.

- Ah, yes, Limerick, up by Lanzarote. Went to Floriday myself. Yeh know, Disney for the kids, bit of glamour for the wife on Pom Beach, and a spot of whatever you're having yourself down in ... sorry, did you say 'Limerick'?

- It is true that I did.

- Limerick *city*? And you weren't, pardon my asking, in the prison or anything like that? It was a vacation? A holiday? Let me guess, the charter flight was hijacked by Albanians? They confused it with Liverpool, maybe. Or Scunthorpe?

- No, I went to Limerick on purpose. To play chess.

- You know, we get perverts in here, nothing against 'em meself, the customer's always right. Except when he goes to Limerick, haha. Er... you're still alive at any rate?

- I am.

- That's something. And the family had a good time?

- No wife, no horse, no moustache.

- Right, that's it. Out. You're barred. Bloody April Fool merchants, and it isn't even January. Outside, quick before I call the police. We have a hotline here -- we lure 'em down from the mountains with lumps of raw meat... but, Jayzus. Limerick! Chess!

- Pleasant little spot, actually. And if you don't bring the car, it can't be used in a drive-by shooting, can it?

- And if you don't open 1.e4 you won't face the Petroff.

Oct-24-07  achieve: <Dom> Having switched back to English again, (would you believe I don't smoke and don't drink Kaffee? - how do I manage without vital chemicals?), I have some interesting comments by IM Herman Grooten on powerful engines in chess, as he was interviewed at the ESSENT Open, following his win with Black against Hillarp Persson, including a double rook-sacrifice, at http://www.chessvibes.com/?p=1314&l...

But having found a refutation, later, with his "devious Fritz", as he called it, Grooten wrote a response below his own clip explaining into detail the "correct" lines after thorough analysis of that game. He then finishes with the following remark:

"Steeds meer wordt mij duidelijk dat we de schaaksport maar moeten gaan redden door al die sterke schaakprogramma’s uit het raam te gooien. Laten de spelers maar lekker knoeien; zolang ze het niet weten is er niets aan de hand…"

translated

"More and more it becomes clear to me that we should consider saving Chess as a sport, by throwing all those powerful engines out the window. Just let the players "make a fine mess of it" (lekker knoeien); as long as they don't know everything is just fine..."

Interesting comment, coming from a devoted player/coach/trainer and lover of chess.

His decision to go for the double sac against a GM opponent in timetrouble was correct, I would say... But a session with Fritz led to the conclusion the sac was NOT correct, objectively.

As a member of the "old guard", Grooten still has difficulty dealing with the emergence of the real strong engines.

Reminds me of a remark by your buddy Twinlark that the World v GMT game is as much a challenge on how to deal with the super engines, as it is to play the game itself... (paraphrased cause I forgot where I read it)

Oct-24-07  achieve: <(paraphrased cause I forgot where I read it)>

I read it at <Thorsson> chessforum - and these are Twinlark's exact words (better than mine)

"This game is really putting the acid on The Team to come to terms with the carbon/silicon dimensions of these Challenge games. Finding the best way to achieve a workable synergy seems to be as much of a challenge as the game itself."

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen: OH thank goodness for you, my dear chess friends.

You know, I used to read "Yahoo news" after a "hard day."

Now, I can read <Frogspawn> after a hard day.

I can't wait for Friday- yet another long weekend here-- to catch up on all the wonderful intricacies posted in here-- I just tasted them, later I will savor them. I will never understand them.

What's the point of something you can understand?

That's why OTB chess with classical time controls is the ONLY art/sport/pastime/addiction that I will recognize by the name "chess."

I will have time to analzye my VERY UNSOUND victory this weekend- My opening was shockingly stupid, and my "sac" decision was forced on me by my own blunder-- I actually favored resigning--

But my opponent was human.

I saw the tiniest, faintest hope for some counterplay.

And move by move, he kept missing "objective chances" to just crush me and so very slowly, he let me back in the game.

Then I got a very slight advantage. And held on to his throat like a pit bull.

It took hours. I can't express the emotional rollercoaster-- a very slow rollercoaster- as it began to dawn on me that I might actually win the game.

I'm SURE that an engine will show me at minus 33 after my opening, and at minus 300 after my sac.

But that's PRECISELY why I love chess.

<Dom>: I'm so proud of you and excited about your upcoming tournament.

What could possibly be more grand than playing in a REAL chess tournament?

I hope one day I can too.

<Niels> you sound in good spirits!! Don't hesitate to EMU if you feel like it.

I look forward to a chat with you this weekend.

Chess, country walks, and.... well I suppose I should see a few Korean friends and try to learn... It's so difficult...

Zut alors- I thought learning French was hard.

Regards, will dive into the <Frogspawn> discussion points soon.

I hope you have a wonderful time at the tourney <Dom>.

Keep us updated!!!

Oct-24-07  achieve: <Jess>-<<Niels> you sound in good spirits!!> Niels was indeed in good spiritus last night, Jess... Ending up rambling in German, to show off my multi lingual weaknesses.

Well, thats bourbon under the bridge now...

As always very nice to hear from you - I will prepare a nice EMU, so it can be the launch pad for a goood chat.

What, indeed, is the point of something you can understand...

Very few "things" are "understood", completely. That's why men love women so much - they seem to have the notion, to understand us.

They like it. We like it. And, following that logic, everybody should be happy...

At least that is how HE planned it.

It's been a bumpy road ever since...

Oct-24-07  mack: <alcoreductionism>

Where better to go for boozy ballads than the King of Dayton, He who once proclaimed:

'We like to keep a cooler of beer on stage (crowd whoops & cheers) ... because we're hopeless, pathetic alcoholics. And we say "@#$% you". To everyone who says we've got a drinking problem, we say "@#$% you". I said it to my mum.'

Thus:

'Sister, I need wine
For colour in my skin
And darkness for my eyes...'

'Sister, I Need Wine' (2001)

OR:

'It's a good thing, let it go
Water will taste like wine
Have you heard the news?
No more @#$%ing blues!'

'Sadness Is To End' (1997)

OR:

'How's my drinking?
I don't care about being sober
But I sure get around
In this town

To hell with my church bells
And leave me to die
With you
I won't change'

'How's My Drinking?' (2001)

OR:

'Feeling something's going to blow
and watch where you go
I'm the drinking Jim Crow'

'The Drinking Jim Crow' (1985)

OR:

'I like her tremendously
And to turn those objections
Into beer without directions
I'll fight for the free
And people who live in glass houses should get stoned

Like the girl from the sun and me'

'Girl From The Sun' (1997)

Oct-24-07  mack: <GM>

You'll be horrified to know, I'm sure, that I quoted you this morning. Like, in public and everything. Was having a discussion about the surrealist conception of space - WB & profane illumination naturally came into it - and then a killer quotation started nagging at me from somewhere deep within my memory:

'You cannot take man into space. You cannot take language into space.'

Cheers.

What should you do if you see a spaceman?

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <What should you do if you see a spaceman? > Probably quit using the forbidden stuff.

An acquaintance of mine once got drunk with Shane MacGowan. It´s still an enigma to me how he survived that.

Oct-24-07  mack: <Stonehenge: Probably quit using the forbidden stuff.>

Park in it, man.

I am mightily impressed that your pal kept up with Shane MacGowan. I'm impressed that Shane MacGowan has so far kept up with Shane MacGowan too, for that matter.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: Ah, indeed, another off-centre 'weekend' on the way -- I have all my final deadlines on Wednesday, so I keep holy the sabbath day, in my own way, usually involving sleep, on Thursday. So, um, what day is it now?

23 Merdre 103 A.P., I think, according to the 'Pataphysical Calendrier. Unless it's 11 Palotin 88 A.P. You think leap years are difficult? Try a 377-day year with 13 months (Palotin, Haha, Merdre, As, Tatane, etc) each of 29 days.

The names are essentially untranslatable, which doesn't stop people trying. I've seen Tatane rendered as 'Nookie' and Merdre as '@#$%r'. Horrible.

Some days are real and some are imaginary. Many are complex. All in the mathematical sense, of course.

<What's the point of something you can understand? >

My sentiments exactly, Jess. When I was young and an accredited believer in the tooth fairy I tried to persuade editors that many readers actually liked stuff that went slightly over their heads. They sneered.

"Around here", they said, "slightly over the groin is too highbrow".

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <those 'groups' again> Did anyone, speaking of Franz F, ever name a band after <wotsisface>, the shootist, Gavrile Principe?

Gabriel Prince? Sounds like a winged sheepdog. Clearly a dark Serbian joke of some kind. They were all proto-surrealists down there.

If the United States of America was a conspiracy between the Masons and the Bavarian Illuminati -- latterly known as the Financiers and the Cowboys, an internal dispute solved by George Bush Senior by producing several only-begotten sons and bequeathing the country to them)... then World War One was a Proto-Surrealist Happening. The second one seems to have been a misunderstanding.

All they'll say, in the Bureaucracy on the Other Side, is that we need to look deeper into certain molecules. Which they refuse to name, of course.

But we know that nice Mr Hoffman made his synthetic breakthrough with ergotamine tartrate in neutral Switzerland in the early 1940s.

And now it's been revealed that the Americans were developing a chemical weapon to make enemy troops fall violently in lust with each other.

That should go down well in Iran, where President I'm-a-Dinner-Jacket claims there are no homosexualists whatsoever, and when they catch them they execute them, which they don't because there aren't any.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <achieve> Ist Klar. But I can't speak for the pimp.

Hmm... 'pimp' means five in some language, doesn't it? Remember that Cumbrian sheep-count that contributed to the Great Shutting Down Episode? Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo, Pimp, Peggotty, Bumfit... or something like that.

Things could have been very different if Enid Blyton had written children's adventure stories about The Famous Pimp...

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Niels> Kurtz did something similar to Grooten, if I remember right, at Gibraltar 2006. He mated "one of those aggressive Slavic Females* -- as he likes to think is his habit -- with a pretty combination, to which Fritz then found an absurd defence that no human would have seen.

I think such Fritzy analyses stand out in the few cases where there's a forced win or loss available. Which is really very few games. Most of the time, whatever their ply depth, the beasts are just kibitzing.

I suppose they've taught us that you can win with a lot of positionally dubious moves and absolutely no tactical errors, ever.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <pimp> Ow, as a kid I loved to watch the film 'The scarlet Pimp'. "They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek him everywhere".
Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <mack> That was probably Burroughs you quoted, not me. He originally wrote "you cannot take language into space - you cannot take woman into space" ... but that was too, well, extremely misogynist for me, so I changed it when I stole it.

<Niels> -- <duidelijk> I like this word. It's kinda dude-like.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <What should you do if you see a spaceman? >

Dunno, but it seems to call for a verse or two of The Hit:

"I'm the urban spaceman, baby
Intelligent and clean,
Know what I mean?

I'm the urban spaceman, baby
Here comes the twist,
I don't exist."

Hmm. I just remembered where I first encountered the Bonzos. In a Dutch rock magazine, of all places.

Oct-24-07  achieve: <Dom> Almost an anagram! Funny word, yes... (I find almost any word funny, when thinking about them...)

Pronounce it like "dude-luck" and you are close, very close...

"Let's shake pimps"

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Limerick Limerick #13>

As openings go, it ain't preti
Some people think that it's sheti
But 1.Nf3
Is as flex as can be
A chameleon move, that's the Reti.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Niels> -- <"Let's shake pimps" >

High pimps, eh? It's a deal, bro' ... as long as you pimp my King's Indian...

Oct-24-07
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  Domdaniel: <Jess> Some more *personalized* Flann O'Brien for you...

"Three fifties of fosterlings could engage in hand-ball against the wideness of her ... "

Hmm. One second thoughts, we'll skip that one.

<I placed in my mouth sufficient humble pie for one minute's chewing. Condition of pie: very 'eavy, very 'umble.

"Gosh, thanks, Miss Jessica", I said, coming on all Olive Twisterfield meets Little Orphan Amphetamine, on account of I had no wish to be turfed out of there.>

Thass better. Sorta Myles-goes-Burroughs, but even so.

Oct-24-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: AntiLimerick...

A Korean peasant near Incheon
Took aim at a boat with a winch on
Said he "I let rip
At some nip in a ship...
And who was it? Tom bloody Pynchon."

Oct-25-07  mack: <That was probably Burroughs you quoted>

Bit of both, surely?

It's been used by Suttles and Day
The Incredible's the name, by the way
Fools say 'I don't trust it-
I'm determined to bust it'
But ...Qe7 I'll continue to play

Of course, if I were Edward Lear then the above limerick would look a little something like this:

There once was a man from Shindeddible
Who played a Defence called Incredible
He liked to drink tea
And looked like a bee
Oh, that silly old man from Shindeddible

Oct-25-07  Ragh: <Domdaniel> Here's a hintza on that C-word. It is something that falls under <genus medicinius> like in the following examples. Though I must warn that it is not as mouthful of a word as some of these are below.

CHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTOCHOLEDOCHECTOMY
CONJUNCTIVODACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY
CAMPHOFORMENEAMINECARBOXYLIC
COUNTERIMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS
CHRYSANTHEMUMMONOCARBOXYLIC
CHOLECYSTENTEROANASTOMOSIS

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