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Feb-22-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: heh-- can't be bad! |
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| Feb-22-08 | | achieve: Lars is looking at me like: WHAT THE HECK...
A good laugh is all we need eh? (Even I am giggling heavily now...) |
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Feb-22-08
 | | Domdaniel: Great dialog, you two. I've got a magazine cover somewhere with a pic of Shakespeare and a fpeech bubble faying "Where the bee sucks, there suck I". With antique s's, natch. Hilarious, huh?
Will report in later from the splendidly named Bunratty Thingy Hotel ... |
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Feb-22-08
| | Domdaniel: And Fanks again. I should point out that the big difference between English and Irish accents is that one is <rhotic> and the uvva isn't. - So do you roll your R's?
- Not in *these* trousers ... |
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| Feb-22-08 | | achieve: <Dom> I meant to ask you that a few months ago already... But Most Scottish dialects pronounce the "R", rhotic, don't they? And I thought the Irish mostly use the non rhotic r -- but I read in WikiPed that it still depends if you're in/from the north or south of Ireland... Do you pronounce the r rapidly hitting(vibrating) against the palate? BTW I'm going with Jess' approach:
GO GETTIM DOM!!!
(PS. How many games will you play over the coming days? I'm gonna inform myself on tourny's I can enter here, prior to my playing for a club this summer.) |
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Feb-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> The 'r' sound is vanishing from English-English ... at the end of words it's seen just as length marker, while people in Ireland still say 'mark-err' - in Anglia this would be 'marka', and in Scotia 'marrk-errrr'. In Wales it's "We don't stock *Marrkas* son, but we've got a pencil". Hope this clears up etc. Acclimatising to Bunratty now. Have ordered medieval rat-on-bun from room service ... Ratisbon. I guess I should really play The Rat Opening too ... |
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Feb-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <how many games> Usual weekend schedule -- one on Friday evening, three (!!) on Sat, two on Sun, making 6 rounds in toto. Sat #3 can be a killer, though personally I find morning games where I haven't really woken up yet more of a problem. The secret is getting up earlier and 8 pints of coffee. |
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| Feb-22-08 | | achieve: Three games Standard Time Control on one day must be excruciating!! S'pose there is hardly a timeslot to take a nap.... |
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| Feb-22-08 | | mack: <achieve: Three games Standard Time Control on one day must be excruciating!!> Yeah, it is. My heart always sinks when I realise halfway through my first game that I've got to do this another two times this very day - and then two times tomorrow, too. God chess takes it out of me. <The secret is getting up earlier and 8 pints of coffee.> Yes and no. Provided you get up after seven hours sleep then that's a fine plan. My problem is always the third round on Saturday, which usually finishes about 10-10:30. Getting the necessary 3 1/2 hours drinking in afterwards can be quite a balancing act. Sometimes it's best to have just six coffees but stay in bed an extra twenty minutes. <I guess I should really play The Rat Opening too ...> You know how happy that would make me. One Rat I'm currently playing via correspondence (against a 2132) has gone 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 c6 5.f4 b5 6.Bd3 Nd7 7.Nf3 Rb8 8.Qd2 Nb6 9.h3 Nc4 10.Bxc4 bxc4 11.Rb1 d5 -- fun fun fun sans rote memorisation: 
click for larger view'How now? a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!' |
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Feb-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Staying up for a jolly boozing session with Svid and the gang is one thing ... creeping back to my laptop and staying glued to Leko-Aronian until, argh, 03:25am is just insanity. 4 hours sleep, then 3 games? I'm [expletive not so much deleted as assumed]. G'night. I drew the 1st one, btw. He seemed happy to get away with it and I didn't push hard enough. Sat: enter the Rat?! |
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| Feb-23-08 | | mack: Cor, boozing with Svid? Tell me more! Can he take it? |
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Feb-23-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Who knows? Slunk away, didn't I, to *watch more chess*. I really must be mad. Svidler's been cruising through it. Victims to date - they tend to last 25 moves or so before it all falls apart - include Simon Williams and Phillip Short (of, ahem, a certain ancient draw in the CG database fame). Meanwhile I can't stop drawing. I get an advantage, start to slowly lose it, get knackered, opponent picks opportune moment to say 'draw?' and I wearily comply. |
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Feb-23-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well, as they say, back to the <"Winning" board>. Although there's certainly no shame in the <drawing board>. Or the <losing board> for that matter. However,...
TAKE NO PRISONERS!! ATTACK SQUEEZE DESTROY!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
<dOM>
Frogspawn Official Cheering Squad
Special Flying Squirrel Attachment |
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| Feb-24-08 | | Knight13: <ATTACK SQUEEZE DESTROY!!> I wish chess is as simple as that. |
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| Feb-24-08 | | mack: <Sat: enter the Rat?!> I would very much like to know if this happened.
'It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and taste for human blood began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted.' |
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Feb-24-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Knight 13>
Er... actually, I wasn't talking about chess....
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Feb-24-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <mack> that passage sounds terribly familiar.... Is it from <The Plague>? I know it's not <Willard>... |
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Feb-24-08
 | | Open Defence: <Dom> have you seen Ratatouille ? |
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Feb-24-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Deffi>!1 What are you doin up in the middle of the night again? <RATATOOLLY> = funny movie. The animated Rat becomes a fine chef.
I saw it with my neice Jodi.
did you see <Chicken Run>? I liked it even more cuz of the British accents. The animated chickens try to escape being fricaseeed!!! Whoo |
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Feb-24-08
| | Open Defence: hmmm missed chicken run, must check it out, btw I posted a link to my myspace forum where I uploaded a track of mine, a BORING JAZZ track... heh! check it out.. if you find the flute irritating well.. too bad that's me! heh! also on the bass and piano.. drums are sampled though (and is probably the best musican on the track) .. I thought I got one of those Thelonius Monk type vibes.. but maybe I like it coz i wrote it heh! |
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Feb-24-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well done <composing chess Indian denizen>!!! I'll check out your track now, I'm sure it's as brilliant as your chess "combos". heh
(I'm feeling pretty happy today cuz I won for a change! Two in a row now and I posted it at my house). OK I'm going in for a listen... |
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| Feb-24-08 | | mack: I'm on tenterhooks here waiting to find out how Dom did at Bunratty. In the meantime I'm trying to figure out how it's possible for the official tournament page to look like it was created in about 1991: http://members.aol.com/bunrattychess/ |
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Feb-24-08
| | Domdaniel: <Knight13> Your visit to this extremely strange place is greatly appreciated, since you're a bit strange yourself. (There's no greater compliment round here, btw). Strangeness is charm, as the actress said to the quark. <mack> A string of draws, the mandatory loss to a teenager, two good wins on Sunday, total 3.5/6. No rat. After the teen crushed the life out of my Dutch Defence, I *swore* I'd never play it again. It's not like I don't have alternatives against 1.d4 -- but the main thing stopping me from playing ...g6 systems as black is the fact I feel compelled to play 1...e6 against everything. Honour of the Frogspawn, and all that; plus I do still have a lot of confidence in the French. But I didn't get to play even one of 'em here - all black games were 1.d4. So I *thought* about playing the Benoni or Blumenfeld or Dzhindzi-Indian, or Tarrasch, or anything that involves ...e6. Ironically, my last-round game was against the brother of the guy I played in the Cg database game, and I was very tempted to repeat that experiment. The Kangaroo, I believe: 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ Then I saw my hand moving the f-pawn to f5.
It finished up neatly, though. After enduring some pressure, I finally got my queenside developed and put the LSB on h3. I seem to play two kinds of Dutch: those with a very bad bishop I lose, those where I get the bish into play, I win. 
click for larger viewThis, I think, is dynamically equal. Black may be a little better but White should hold. In practice, with time running down, somebody's going to make a mistake. I got lucky. He played 25.Rb2?? -- partly focused on his own threats, partly because f2 looks like it needs defending (it doesn't, really - black can't follow up ...Qf2+ with anything conclusive); and partly because I'd declined chances to take the c3-pawn when it was 'just a pawn' -- the game was all about initiative, not grabbing pawns. But psychologically this can make a pawn seem invulnerable. And he was quite aware of the threat to f1 but imagined he had it covered with Qd3 ... It ended:
25.Rb2 Rxc3
26.Qe2 Re3
0-1
This win is actually a problem. My other win had a similar catastrophic ending in my favour. The three draws, however, were all winnable with patience and application and determination - yet I agreed to split the point. Could be worse - one of the guys I drew with finished by drawing *every* game. |
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Feb-24-08
 | | TheAlchemist: <Dom> Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEzu... |
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Feb-24-08
 | | Stonehenge: <Strangeness is charm, as the actress said to the quark.> Reminded me of the song 'Quark, strangeness and charm' by Hawkwind. So I YouTubed it and guess what, Stonehenge popped up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE-2... |
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