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 320 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-04-08    jessicafischerqueen: I don't know if this is on topic but I saw a <BBC Horizon> Documentary recently on the <Internet Generation>-- The conclusion? They think very very quickly with no rigor or depth of any kind, and are hyper-oversocialized while remaining profoundly under-socialized. Meanwhile, their parents don't know how to plug in the toaster. Oh and no one reads anything that takes longer than five minutes. Oh one more thing they said that the "mental skills" an <internet kid> learns are best suited to working in the <Advertising Industry>. Yours, A. Luddite (now where did all my shoes go? I"m such a hypocrite. I feel like I should have built a raft out of reeds and sailed to Ireland and told you this in person to escape hypocrisy-- but I'm not Thor Heyerdhal. Who I found out about on the Internet.) Sigh. OH THE HUMANITY!!! (Which I learned about on a BBC documentary aboout the <Hindenberg> which I watched on the Internet>. IS THERE NO ESCAPE!! IS THERE TIME TO READ <Don Delillo> and <Mein Kampf> in the same lifetime any more? I need to know. <none of that actually made any sense, did it>? Mar-04-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> Um, actually, *all* of it made sense. This could be a dangerous trend ... Now, where did I put that <Toaster Instruction Manual, Vol XXIII> what I was perusing? A fine tome. You don't need a George (Mockney rhyming slang for 'raft', and if it isn't, it should be) to "visit" Ireland. As Bogie said "We'll always have chessgames.com." Thus solving the <Mein Kampf or Yours?> question ... Now proceed with the Canadanglicanization of Asia ... Mar-04-08    achieve: <Domdaniel: <Jess> Um, actually, *all* of it made sense.> Well, I second that, on all 'counts. A transparant depiction and summarization of contrasting trends, motions- and *e*-motions... OK, I'll stop the pseudo rambling. Mar-04-08    JoeWms: I writhe when I roll on the floor laughing, but sometimes my writhing is too subitill for a mere mortal. Check the Buckley smartassertions on my forum, fella. Mar-04-08    Domdaniel: <Joe> Oh, *that* kind of writhing. Like reeling, writhing, and rhythmatic? Well wrought, anyhow. Mar-05-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> Did some more digging on the Grand Prix. 2.f4 was actually a common response to the Sicilian even before Steinitz's time - it turns up in some Philidor games from the 18th century. Maybe White expected ...e5 as well and was angling for a type of King's Gambit. In your game, White seems to have confused two standard plans, possibly thrown by your unusual move order. The GP can be played in two ways: slowly and positionally, or for a fast kingside attack. The attack mode usually entails Bb5xc6, and Qe1-h4. The positional approach is g3 and Bg2. Having played g3, your guy should've put his Bishop on g2 rather than b5. Mar-05-08    Domdaniel: I expect 1.a3 in the rematch between the original Team Black and Team White (with colours reversed from the first game). If we can draw with the St George, we can win with Anderssen's Opening. And reversed openings seem to work for Magnus. We could always try the Carlsenikov ... Mar-05-08    Stonehenge: I prefer the Arsenikov, also known as the poisoned king variation. Mar-05-08    Domdaniel: <Stonehenge> Indeed. All Kings should be poisoned. Instead of that Fischerrandom stuff, I'm surprised Bobby Fischer didn't come up with a paranoid form of chess where the King had a Bodyguard on one side and a Food-taster on the other. - The barber finally hit rock bottom. - How? - He dropped a cut-throat razor down his trousers and gave his arsenic! Mar-06-08    JoeWms: Arsenic! If I had it right now, I would take it. Mar-06-08    jessicafischerqueen: <arsenic> Heh. You said arse. Heh... Mar-06-08    jessicafischerqueen: The <Cap D'Antibes> Mar-06-08    mack: FROGSPAWN THEORY UPDATE: 1.d4 g6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 Na6 5.Nf3 c5 6.d5 Nh6 click for larger view My new invention: the Alex Vass Variation... Mar-06-08    JoeWms: <Stonehenge> Your forgiveness, dear sir, because I skidded past your post yesterday: <Arsenikov, the poisoned king variation.> A good one indeed that was, friend Stony. (This is Dom's place, so I can't just say something as simple as "I like it.") Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: Irony was an American invention, first introduced to England by Bob Dylan in 1965. Apropos nothing in particular. Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: <mack> Have you appropriated the chess quote from Catch-22, about Yossarian playing chess with the Captain? It's in Jessica's gaff. Theory, eh? I was just wondering: if 1...g6 is the Modern Defence, what's the Postmod version? Is the Rat a pomo ho? Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: <mack> Knights on a6 and h6? I've actually tried something like that, but with ...f5 thrown in. I think it's the Basman Variation of the Leningrad Dutch. Basman deserves our respect. How he maintained a master-level rating for 25 years while playing those openings I'll never understand. Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <Cap d'Antibes> Is it a mushroom? Grown nicely in Nice and canned in Cannes and served at the Captain's Table? John Cage would know, if he was alive. So would Graham Greene. Or Anthony Burgess. All, alas, defunct. Ou sont les novelistes et mycologistes d'antan? Mar-06-08    Open Defence: <Is it a mushroom?> no it's a fungus among us Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: Not mushroom in here tonight, is there? I thought Apples hung out in the Garden of Eden, the Hesperides, California, and other legendary locations ... while mushrooms are kept in the dark and fed on sheet. Which how we likes eet. If a toad sits on a toadstool, where does a frog rest its weary arse? Oh, yeah, I said 'arse' again. Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: Calling <Dr. Siggy> ... if <Dr Siggy> is in the building, he may be interested in some games I've posted at M F Littleton vs Drira, 1972. Actually, the late Michael Littleton would have been 70 yesterday. Nice man, great chessplayer, and a key figure in the development of Irish radio - something else I take an interest in. Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: <Joe> -- <This is Dom's place, so I can't just say something as simple as "I like it."> I like *it* as well, but there's nothing simple about the relationship. Mar-06-08    Stonehenge: <Joe> Thank you kindly. <This is Dom's place, so I can't just say something as simple as "I like it".> I know, I know, why use only two words when you can use 64 of them, saying exactly the same thing. Here's how <Dom> probably wants us to count to three: "Thou shalt count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out". Mar-06-08    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> The <Cap D'Antibes> was a famous Hotel off the coast of France where <Hem> and <Scott Fizgerald> would "hob-nob" with various Hollywood and French film stars, including <Valentino>. Or maybe it was the Roman Emperor <Valentinian>, the details are a bit hazy... Mar-06-08    Domdaniel: Non, non, non, ma Reine, je suis pretty sure that Le Cap D'Antibes was a French Noble who had the right to pull the firing-pin on the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch ... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 320 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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