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 306 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: From <Corrections and clarifications> in <The Guardian>, February 6: "Whether the romance of the French president and Carla Bruni was very pubic only they can say. We meant to say that it was very public (Sarkozy marries royally with Versailles wedding night, page 15, February 4)." Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: ... They must have meant a <weeding knight> ... a chessman who likes gardening and keeping hoes in line ... Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: <Spawnalot> ... mm, yes ... even <Frogspawnalot>. Well, they would, wouldn't they? Feb-06-08    Open Defence: all we need now is Carla and Hillary on the cover of the Guns and Chicks Magazine ;-p which would be scarier ? a Berreta or Hillary ? or is that a loaded question ? Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: <Deffi> The same paper, the Guardian, has a feature today on 'guns for ladies' -- from shocking pink pistols to leopardskin tasers. Hard to say if they're being ironic or just liberally aghast. Feb-06-08    Open Defence: <or is that a loaded question ?> or a loaded <magazine> even.... Feb-06-08    JoeWms: <The romance was very pubic...> Come on, fella, The Guardian really didn't say that. <It did?!> Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: <Joe> It did. And the 'correction' was exactly as quoted. Papers have been leaving the 'l' out of 'public' for years, but I've never seen an actual apology before. Bit, er, tongue-in-cheek, I think. Another common error is an 'i' instead of 'o' in the word 'shot', often in a sports report. Maybe we'll see something like "Whether David Beckham had a satisfying @#$% on goal only he knows ..." Oops. Caught. Even though I tried ess-aitch-one-tee ... no matter, it's almost more suggestive like this. Feb-06-08    Domdaniel: <Loaded Magazine>. Scene: a TV newsroom. Two newspersons alternating stories. The younger one, a rookie, reads the final piece -- "police also found a gun and a loaded magazine..." Afterwards, she innocently turned to her colleague -- who happened to be my sister, of piano fame -- and asked "Like, what's so bad about a copy of Loaded magazine?" True story. In her defence, she pointed out that most viewers her age would react the same way. Scary. Feb-07-08    JoeWms: One Saturday afternoon I strolled past our community television station. The marquee announced "Piano Rectal Sunday 2 PM." I left a message on the station's answer machine. I drove by at noon Sunday: "Piano Recital Today 2 PM." I wonder how many chuckles were recorded and <when> they checked their calls. Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <Joe> Ouch. I'd have been more concerned in today's Jackass-oid society about people turning up for the rectal and being angry at a mere recital. Good to see you back strolling, chuckling and driving, btw. Feb-07-08    Open Defence: well there was a lady called Anu who had a Cafe with her name on it but forgot the apostrophe Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <Deffi> We've had The Grocer's Apostrophe (Banana's $0.01) -- is this the Grosser's Apostrophe? Hmm ... how about a restaurant called <Apu's Trough> or <Apu's Trophies> ... ? Feb-07-08    achieve: -- Upright Piano Rectal on "Cavity" Sunday -- Looks like we're gonna have A. Ball Feb-07-08    achieve: <(it keeps dem agog!)> heh! Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <Piano Rectal> Okay, okay ... how about a particularly tricky Bach passage? Feb-07-08    achieve: <Bach> I agree whole(yes I know)heartedly, counterpoint works remakably well in these cases... Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <Niels> Hmm, yess ... stop it. Think I'd better change the subject ... This might amuse you: film distributors send me their schedules on the off-chance I might review something. The following selection just came in (are they making movies about us?) ... Lars and the Real Girl The Ugly Duckling and Me Mister Lonely Awake Funny Games Crazy Love Smart People Feb-07-08    achieve: http://imdb.com/title/tt0805564/ -- It's true!! Incredibile! Nearly busting a gut here... Ryan Gosling starring... Of course those movies are about "us", so I'd like to think-- there's nothing quite so refreshing as a nice, extended, delusional experience, eh? (What a list- uncanny) Feb-07-08    achieve: "...In the years to follow, talk swirled of Murro's pending feature activity -- including, at one point, his plans to direct The Ring Two for DreamWorks (an assignment eventually handled by Hideo Nakata, the director of the original Japanese film) and the black comedy <All Families Are Psychotic>; however, Murro eventually took his first high-profile feature bow with the 2007 comedy <Smart People.>" An excerpt from a Noam Murro bio... I can't wait to see both of these movies. Especially 'All families are Psychotic' sounds terrific... Based on a Novel by D. Coupland, from Canada-- surely Jess must know of him... So your list will now become a "must" for me, that much is quite clear... On a different note- I am studying some <Zurab Sturua> games, upon noticing he was pretty much the only one, among many, who understands the subtleties of the B+N mate, that I was studying that last few months... I very much like Zurab's technique. Another player who's games hardly have any kibitzing, plus I never heard of him previously. This place is indeed a goldmine... Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: ... could be the same Douglas Coupland who wrote 'Generation X' ... I have a coupla (?) books by him somewhere. These movie lists (slightly edited to remove a few wrong 'uns) can be uncanny, all right. Last year I was simultaneously told about a film called The King's Something, and another called The Something Indian ... so I somehow combined them in my head and got the impression there was a film named The King's Indian. There *should* be. Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <delusional?> As Pynchon - or one of his 'crazy' characters - sez: "Cherish your delusions-- Hold tightly to them by their little tentacles ..." Feb-07-08    achieve: <"Cherish your delusions-- Hold tightly to them by their little tentacles ..."> Pynchon was right, of course... We had a little dicussion on paranoia, last year, and I remember, there as well, that we were on the same page... (pun unintended) Zurab matches the Riga Magician shot for shot here in an enthralling middle game and then walks into a mate in 3 with Kh6, probably in timetrouble -- fun to replay if you have some time. Tal vs Z Sturua, 1982 Feb-07-08    Domdaniel: <Niels> I had a quick look at two games where Sturua outplayed Tony Miles in long endings. Impressive. Must investigate further... Feb-07-08    achieve: Z Sturua vs Kasparov, 1976 where Kasparov was only 13 and Sturua 20 years young, and Sturua completely outplays young Garri after a quiet opening, it seems, but then positionally outplays and then crushes Garri in just 26 moves. Garry must have been devastated... But he got him back not too long after. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 306 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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