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 261 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-27-07    achieve: <Dom> Well done sofar!! And yes, please do upset "him." Oct-27-07    JoeWms: G'mornin' good guy. All bright and shiny you do be for today's threpeat. Oct-28-07    achieve: <Froggers> and enthusiasts! Endgame study click for larger view White to move and win (Category: very difficult) Oct-28-07    Domdaniel: <Here we go> ... ready as I'll ever be, I guess. Time to empty my head of chess, forget my preparation, eat a banana (thanks, Deffi) and gird my whatever-it-is-you-gird for battle... More later. Oct-28-07    Domdaniel: Arg. R3, down in flames. Incredibly tough game, the last one finished, with my opponent in serious time trouble - 2 mins to my 9 for all moves. At which stage I declined to go into an ending with two pawns for the exchange, and kept attacking... cue explosions, with clocks hanging, and I cracked first. And now I got, like, 6 minutes, to the next round. Never mind: the machine is working. The next one's gonna get *killed*. My, such unsavory bloodlust. What's come over me? Don't answer that. Oct-28-07    Red October: awwww but chin up for rd 4 Oct-28-07    WBP: <Dom> I came, I saw, I concurred Oct-28-07    mack: <I like the atmosphere at tournaments. So would you. Try it whenever the opportunity arises.> Before this weekend I'd have disagreed with you wholeheartedly. I always think that playing a weekend congress is a fantastic idea, but then I get a sinking feeling halfway through the first game when I realise how much mental torture I'll be inflicting upon myself in the days to come. BUT... I've just returned from a tourney where I won 160 quid, which means I might be able to pay my rent this month, so therefore I love all chess congresses and insist that everybody here plays them as much as possible. Oct-28-07    Domdaniel: <mack> congrats -- £150 of 'er majesty's pounds sterling, eh? Cool. I'm now on 3/4 and back in the chase. Oct-29-07    achieve: 'A Glorious Day' Slender man arrives appointment final round opponent hides in blender no safe place yet bin found Spear them scewer smoke and suffocate unrelenting pressure discovery of fate hide your wives and daughters hide your groceries too Make way please GM coming through! Oct-29-07    mack: <GM GM> Cheers. Bizarrely, I was so nervous in the morning yesterday I spent about twenty minutes throwing up, which is most unlike me. It's also far from the best preparation for a three-and-a-bit endgame grind, which is what game four turned out to be. I know this is your personal lebensraum, but here's a little oddity from the final round. How does white get from this more-hopeless-than-hopeless position: click for larger view to the following lovely one: click for larger view There is certainly no answer that suggests that there might be even an ounce of justice in this world. But hey, I needed the money. Oct-29-07    Domdaniel: <mack> I'm not going to even *look* at that yet -- I'm still trying to emulate you here, cos I'm on 4/5 with one round to go... *and* I just won an Exchange French rook ending grind, about 4 mins short of 4 hours... <Deffi> You're a star. Those lucky bananas are magic. It's probably just that my body is so used to being starved, poisoned and abused that it can't believe its luck when given something healthy. Cheers. Oct-29-07    Domdaniel: Down in flames, again. Still... looking on the bright side... 4/6 is OK... and everyone I lost to was rated over 2350. And I was one game away from 2nd place. As it worked out, I came joint 8th. My rating should even creep back up a bit now... So, wassup round here then? Oct-29-07    Ragh: <Dominus Prime, the leader of the FrogBots> Congrats on a top ten finish at the tournament. Oct-29-07    Domdaniel: Thanks, Ragh. Now I think I'll just ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... Oct-30-07    Domdaniel: <mack> Your Great Escape FEN is clearly completely forced. White simply exchanges most of the pieces, sacs a rook for, oh, about six pawns, while ensuring that his own pawns are *very far advanced*. This last part is vital. But you knew that, didn't you? Nice one. My last-round loss was to FM-going-on-GM Alex Lopez, which makes it 3 weekend tournaments in a row. In fact, 50% of all my weekend losses have been to him. Oddly, my round five win was vs a guy with exactly the same rating (and age)as myself. We were on the same quiz team the previous night: we won by scoring 8/8 in the anagram round. Ayes. Oct-30-07    achieve: <Dom> HI Ho! I am avatarless now! Did you like the verse by the other fella? (I hope to get my funds ready for renewed PM next week) Regards, Haevice/Lesni Oct-30-07    achieve: I am considering to become a professional poet! (Just a nod or a little shake of the head will do.... Thank you) Regards, Haevi Celesni Oct-30-07    Domdaniel: <ah, e-vice> Nod, nod... but I don't think it's possible to be a professional poet. They don't make money. You could be a full-time poet, though. It's rewarding in, um, other ways... you choose your own hours, you dress how you please, and it impresses the ladies. Oct-30-07    Domdaniel: As nods go, that's a <medial nod> ... Oct-30-07    achieve: <medial nod> Thank you, yes I will put the words to some heavenly harmonies and the chances of making a few quid will rise significanly... SCORE!! (heh) Regards, Melodi Dan Oct-30-07    mack: <I am considering to become a professional poet!> At number 82 in the ignored-of-late compendium... 'I posit that poetry is a *game*, or like a game. Game or play are not to be taken as opposed to serious pursuits of life. Work can also be viewed as a game: a strategy which pits a player against some kind of opponent and/or obstacle according to some set rules. From this point of view, the situation of the poet is similar to that of the chess-player: he enjoys the same kind of freedom and the same kind of limitations on his freedom.' Michel Beaujour, 'The Game of Poetics', Yale French Studies, No.41: Game, Play, Literature (1968) Oct-30-07    Domdaniel: <mack> So the poetic equivalent of blundering your Queen is penning an Ode to a lost lady-love, then, is it? But you can only blunder one Queen at a time. While with the other... well, you know what I mean. Ole man did. Oct-30-07    mack: What a peculiar morning it's been. Nobody ever phones me, yet today I've already received three calls: one from the local newspaper asking me about the tournament at the weekend (God knows how they got my number), one from my landlord telling me I'm going to be evicted, and the other from, er, Richard Ingrams. I damn lode. Oct-30-07    mack: <Ole man did.> You win, by the way. 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