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Jan-14-10
 | | Domdaniel: <Annie> You're welcome. In both senses. But I'm camera-shy. |
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Jan-14-10
 | | Annie K.: Thanks... :)
Uh, a bit of a nitpick though, re. <I'm camera-shy>: <Dom: <I sometimes used to step into photo booths, insert cash, and acquire proof of my existence, but I haven't done that in years.>> Source: Domdaniel chessforum Conclusion: never contradict yourself to an Archivist. Reference (Archivist): http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/wa... That's a cute&useful site btw - enjoy. ;) |
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Jan-14-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Heh, you got me -- but there's no real contradiction. As I said, that was something I used to do. With increased immaturity, I've grown shy. And I no longer require *proof* of my existence. The evidence is bad enough. I suppose I *could* try to illustrate that player-page, but my shyness extends to both ends of the camera. I don't own one, I don't take photos, and I try to avoid appearing in them. |
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Jan-14-10
| | Annie K.: <...but there's no real contradiction.> I know. :) Just couldn't resist the temptation to try and pin one on you regardless. ;p Actually, I'm the same way about cameras - I keep dodging out of the way whenever somebody tries to aim one of the darn things my way - which is why I didn't have any pictures to speak of recently... but then I realized that several people I really care about would like to see who they are talking to, and so I had some taken. Just a personal anecdote, not necessarily a hint. ;) |
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Jan-15-10
| | Domdaniel: Self-imposed 'rules' are idiotic affectations and lead to stasis. Henceforth I have no problem with photos. Let 'em be took. Now, where did I put that mascara ...? |
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Jan-15-10
| | Domdaniel: In case I inadvertently left room for the merest smidgin of ambiguity, the only 'idiot' referred to in the previous post is <me>. |
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Jan-15-10
| | Annie K.: <Dom> I hadn't noticed even the smallest atom of ambiguity, but your caution is highly commendable - as is your willingness to reevaluate old habits. :) |
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Jan-15-10
| | Domdaniel: Funny how things work out. A few days ago I found 25 games in the database with the position reached after 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3 Bf5 4.Bg2 Nb4 -- and posted a message saying that 4...Nb4 was a perfectly good move for black, with a better % score than the alternatives. At the time, I'd never had a game with this line. Until tonight, round 1, as white. My 'preparation' saved some thinking time, I suppose. And I won in 17 moves. My opponent was rated several hundred points below me, so that's no big deal. Tomorrow will be the test. |
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Jan-15-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <OBFUSCATION RESTRICTS MOTILITY>: a monograph on why the paramecium prefers water to milk. Yes this is what I'm currently reading- highly recommended too. Thanks so much for that wonderful faux-biography!
I tried to find the one I wrote about you, but it has disappeared? Maybe it got erased in the <Ed Trice> mass hysteria, since I wrote that biography as a means of demonstrating to <Ed> that he had a very low place on the food chain in relation to you. At any rate, hats off to <Annie K> for encouraging your photosynthesis! Does this mean you will put a picture of a plant on your player page? One dearly hopes so.
You've no reason to be camera shy. I do, of course, but that's another topic. Ok you are playing in the EASTER BUNRATTY?
Is that right?
I thought of you recently whilst looking for photos of ruined castles for a Andrew Sweeny video, and I happened upon a photo of BUNRATTY CASTLE. ????
Who ruined it? |
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Jan-16-10
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Good to see you back after that vacation in non-CG space. Whatever that is. I think it was the builders did the damage in Bunratty. Or else the Normans. The thing I'm playing in is called the Mulcahy Cup. It's an open, but nobody rated over 2050 showed up. Probably the weather (floods, then snow, then ice, now high winds and rain -- much like those balmy Canadian summers) kept 'em at home. But the tournament is there for the taking if I keep my head. Typing this at 6am, three hours before a three-game Saturday, isn't the sanest way to go about this. |
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Jan-16-10
| | Annie K.: So how did it go? :) |
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Jan-16-10
| | Domdaniel: So far it's gone WLWW = 3/4. Lost to the top seed, won the rest. My brain is fried: two to go ... |
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Jan-17-10
| | jessicafischerqueen: go <dom> you can win the whole tournament!!!!! |
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| Jan-17-10 | | Travis Bickle: Great playing Dom!! |
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| Jan-17-10 | | zanshin: Good job on the tournament <Dom> - keep it up! |
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| Jan-17-10 | | hms123: Two...Four...Six...Eight...Who do we appreciate? <Dom>! <Dom>! He's our man...If he can't do it no one can...Go...., <Dom>!! |
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Jan-17-10
| | Annie K.: ... but hey, no pressure or anything. ;p
Nice results there! :) |
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Jan-17-10
| | Domdaniel: Thanks, all, for the good wishes - the tournament *was* there for the taking. The eventual winner was a guy I beat in the same event last year. But I screwed up - I had one of *those* Sundays ... two fat zeroes. First I lost to Eamonn Keogh - he told me beforehand that he's dropped 400 rating points in 6 years, exactly double my loss of 200 points in 3. It was his turn to have a good day today (and I can say I lost to somebody who beat somebody who beat Nimzowitsch ...). In the last round, I pushed too hard, went mad, and with two seconds (!) left on my clock - my opponent had about seven - and I had a forced perpetual. Instead of calling for an arbiter and demonstrating this, I found a way to lose. Shoulda won earlier anyhow. Chess madness. To console myself, here's possibly the only good move I played all weekend: 
click for larger viewBlack, me, to play. From a locked symmetrical Stonewall position with white's rooks offside, I've just grabbed two pawns - hence the black Ra4 and Ng3. And I've just noticed the size of white's initiative. If I exchange with 32...Rxc2 white owns the c-file, his rook penetrates, and I could even get mated. So I found 32...Rac4. After white took the exchange with 33.Nxc4 dxc4 34.Rb1 Ne4 35.Rd1 c3 the black pawns won easily. Weirdly, Fritz has to reach 22-ply before seeing the strength of ...Rac4. I'll just dwell on a happy memory for a while.
Aaaaaaaaaargh. |
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Jan-18-10
| | Annie K.: Ah well, 3/6 ain't bad. ;)
Very nice exchange sac to get things going - upload the game(s)? |
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Jan-18-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Thanks. The games aren't really worth donating to posterity - the people I beat were lower-rated and the ones who beat me only a bit higher. The Keogh game had a turning point, where I considered and eventually rejected an exchange sac, going into a worse ending instead. The exchange sac would probably have won -- but I was up against a veteran champ. I chickened out. Bad psychology. Best forget the whole sorry ... right, I've moved on. Why is @#%$in' Shirov so lucky? |
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Jan-18-10
| | Annie K.: <Why is @#%$in' Shirov so lucky?> Because after all those years of bad luck, he was way overdue for a break! :) The above sentence is of course a classic example of optimism-skewed "intuitive statistics"... ;p |
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| Jan-18-10 | | Red October: <Weirdly, Fritz has to reach 22-ply before seeing the strength of ...Rac4.> Rybka sees it almost immediately (actually it needs about 10 ply to do so) but maybe thats why engines dont get Petrosyan's games.. they usually have an exchange sac... |
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Jan-18-10
 | | OhioChessFan: I don't think many people would mistake me for the most progressive person in the world, but I am really smitten with the story of today's Player of the Day.
Theophilus Thompson
I just had to say that SOMEHWERE. Where else but in the Land of the Commentariat can I safely suggest I wish I knew a whole lot more about the guy and not be thought of as a self congratulating pinko or a wannabe civil rights patron? |
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Jan-18-10
| | OhioChessFan: Nicely found on Rac4. Fritz prefers 35. Kf1 for White, but I think that just prolongs the agony. |
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| Jan-19-10 | | Red October: I think he was among the first to think White didnt have an advantage ;-p |
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