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 362 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-17-08    Domdaniel: Yes, I been "away" with the "fairies", you could say ... in Copenhagen and Dublin and other nearby bits of Yurp. Pleasant. Played a chess match last night. Lost. That 2130 guy I beat earlier in the season got his revenge in a double-rook ending where my time was running out, I shed a 2nd pawn ... and resigned. Maybe premature, but it was technically lost and I was under time pressure. One final club game today. The end-of-season round-up, where all clubs play their final matches simultaneously at a single venue. Our 'A' team seems to have won the league (I contributed half a point as a sub) and our 'B' team (for which I scored 50% over 9 games) avoided relegation, which is a success. Also we drew twice with the other main contenders for the title, thus assisting the A team. I deserve a medal, don't I? Sheet, I got too many medals already. Dublin league, Munster league, Victoria Cross, Order of the Royal Frogspawn (and bars) ... Normal service will be resumed. May-18-08    jessicafischerqueen: Congratulations on all your chess medals <Dominus>!! I'm the owner of <ZERO> chess medals. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A BOWLING TROPHY!! BTW I'm very happy for you that you get to play OTB in a Club. I'm envious too. I miss OTB something fierce I can tell you. I like to GLOWER AT PEOPLE when I play. Tough to do on the Internet. Batchimeg at the Movies May-18-08    jessicafischerqueen: I"ve just sent you a fey EMAIL buddy May-18-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> Ta. I wouldn't care to be on the receiving end of one of your glowers - I bet they're deadly at 10,000 miles ... But the [grins] compensate amply. May-19-08    Domdaniel: <I DON'T EVEN HAVE A BOWLING TROPHY!!> Do you get them for bowling people over? If so, you should have hundreds ... May-20-08    OhioChessFan: The only trophies I have are for bowling. For some reason, the chicks don't find that cool. May-20-08    playground player: <OhioChessFan> If chicks found bowling trophies cool, Barack Obama would never be a presidential candidate. May-20-08    OhioChessFan: <OD> a wonderful position. I read about that one on Tim Krabbe''s site. (That is not a typo) Here's another game he lists that I enjoy. An exciting battle from the 2006 Australian Open: click for larger view Black to play. 32...Rg6 33.Kh1 Rf6 34.Kg1 Rg6 35.Kh1 Rf6 36.Kg1 Rg6 37.Kh1 Rf6 38.Kg1 Rg6 39.Kh1 Rf6 40.Kg1 Rg6 41.Kh1 Rf6 42.Kg1 Rg6 43.Kh1 Rf6 44.Kg1 Rg6 45.Kh1 Rf6 46.Kg1 Rg6 47.Kh1 Rf6 48.Kg1 Rg6 49.Kh1 Rf6 50.Kg1 Rg6 51.Kh1 Rf6 52.Kg1 Rg6 53.Kh1 Rf6 54.Kg1 Rg6 55.Kh1 Rf6 56.Kg1 Rg6 57.Kh1 Rf6 58.Kg1 Rg6 59.Kh1 Rf6 60.Kg1 Rg6 61.Kh1 Rf6 62.Kg1 Kh7. The rest of the game is far less interesting, but it was drawn after 119 moves. May-20-08    Domdaniel: <Ohio> It's precisely because you have the stamina to play through 119-move draws that you were a Rock of Good Sense during the GMAN epic. And also, of course, The King. Now, why was I reminded of GMAN? Never mind, it'll come back to me eventually ... May-20-08    OhioChessFan: Is there any consensus on why you might forget a person's name, but remember that it starts with a J? I have that happen a lot, and would like to give it a really snappy Latin name, instead of having to pass it off as "old age". May-20-08    Domdaniel: <Ohio> (Assuming the 'J' is just a for-example and you don't actually want a word for forgetting names that begin specifically with J...) ... then howsabout: Acronymnesia, or Mnemonitialism. Also known as 'booting down' ... May-20-08    Domdaniel: <Ohio> As for *why* we do it ... and I do it too, all the time. My best guess is that a person's full name gets stored in one bit of the brain - written out in neural longhand and hard to access. But we have a quick chunked version with some salient detail like the first letter on ready access in a different bit of the brain. Which is closer to the surface and in theory should spark off a train of associations leading to the full name. That's in theory. In practice ... it's on the tip of my tongue ... If you *really* want a word for 'J', btw, try Jehosophaticism. May-20-08    Red October: Hi Domo! May-21-08    brankat: <Domdaniel> Just saw Your player's page. It looks like it could use some updating :-) May-21-08    jessicafischerqueen: The book! The email! heh Imagine the public interest if it were revealed that <Elvis> was key in dismantling a Grandmaster in Correspondence play... May-21-08    Domdaniel: <brankat> *Everything* round here could do with some updating. My biog, my brain, all that other stuff ... I'll get around to it one of these centuries. May-21-08    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Hi Reddi ... I seem to be back. Though like His Bobness sez, "You can always go back but you can't go back all the way". Wonder what he meant. The Zimmerman Uncertainty Limit on time travel? Naaah. May-21-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> Just checking. Which side of 100% is your agent's commission on? Yep, you're my secret agent now. May-21-08    Domdaniel: I wrote a long post about multiple castling (fly-castling, broadcastling, narrowcastling, etc) and the psychology of something or other - possibly all nonsense - and then accidentally deleted it. All those lost profundities. But I got more somewhere, I'm almost sure ... just havta pick the lock on the word hoard ... May-21-08    Domdaniel: So who's the biographer? It's possibly the most accurate and concise piece of writing to ever appear on the internet. May-22-08    brankat: <Domdaniel> Possibly the best combination of the young 21st century! Have You heard of this one?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/mai... May-22-08    Domdaniel: <brankat> I heard about Chess-Boxing recently from some Dutch players -- it seems to be popular in the Netherlands. They said it's better to be a good fighter with some chess ability than vice versa. When I think about what could happen to a weedy, myopic, neurasthenic, ectomorphic ageing geek type like me during the punching phase, I have to agree. May-22-08    OhioChessFan: Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not weedy. May-22-08    OhioChessFan: Multiple webcastling, forecastling, podcastling, downcastling is making my head spin. But when I considered multiple simulcastling I gave up any further thinking for today. May-22-08    Domdaniel: <Ohio> -- <You're not weedy.> You're right as usual. It was a typo for "seedy". Is forecastling the same as foc'sling? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 362 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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