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| Oct-04-06 | | NakoSonorense: Cool eye. @_@ |
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Oct-04-06
 | | jessicafischerqueen: LOL- excellent quote <Domdaniel> Loved <The Passenger>, don't remember the quote-- but a big <Michelangelo> fan as you might expect. Predictably, <Blowup> is my fave... hope to speak again soon, tho I can see you are busy... Cheers. |
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| Oct-04-06 | | Nightranger: This seemed more appropriate here, since you posted the question... <<Everyone in The World:> It would be interesting to get some brief feedback from people who vote but are too busy to get more involved. Do you read the posts? Have you looked at the forum scheme, and do you think it can help? What persuades you to vote for a particular move, and under what conditions would you change your vote before the deadline? Share an opinion with us, sometime, please...> I read the posts when I can. I try to note the page and see what the difference was since the last time I was on. If it is over 5, I try to just skim the highlights, i.e. see what moves are being presented. I've learned to be more open in my thnking from this. And I enjoy the <Rookfile - Thorsson> and the previous <Thorsson - Tomlinksy>, for lack of a better term, debates. :-) I usually look at the forums of moves that seem interesting and moves I was already considering. If there aren't too many under analysis, I will TRY to look at them all. I'm don't usually post on the forums unless I have something to add or a question though. |
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| Oct-05-06 | | AdrianP: <Dom> There was quite the discussion re Nabokov on Nigel Short's page back in April 2005 - Nigel Short : have a look and see what you think. |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: <DomDaniel> Check out my updated profile if you feel like. The old one sucked ass. Cheers. |
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Oct-05-06
 | | Domdaniel: <Hi Jessica> Magnifique lists, I agree with many of 'em, name for name. I'd put Cronenberg higher for Dead Ringers alone. And for being Canadian. Go Canada? William Gibson, Vancouver resident and my old body double (honest - I was asked for my/his autograph at a book reading). Leonard Cohen (for his novel Beautiful Losers but also many songs and poems). Plus many others...
I'm in Ireland, btw, and people tend to go on about Irish literature. Can't say I appreciate much of it: Joyce, Beckett, Flann O'Brien, maybe. But I wrote a thesis on Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow. I'd rather live in cyberspace than a 19th century nation. Thanks for dropping by. |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <Nightranger>
Thanks for that. You've reassured me. I think all the forum hosts were getting a little moody about the apparent futility of it all.But if your modus operandi is also followed by others, that's great. I have some faith in the good sense of the majority, who might have come to the same positional decision as others but don't want to clutter the page even more by repeating that fact. |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: *****WORLD - NICKEL *******
MARKER DIAGRAM
We have played 14.f4 to reach this position (Black to play):
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: Forums etc.
We haven't yet decided on a specific use for this forum at this stage of the game. Positional and strategic ideas are always welcome here. In the meantime, after our 14.f4, it is almost certain that AN will play 14...Nxd3. Then we have two possible recaptures, 15.cxd3 and 15.Qxd3. There has been some plausible support for each of them, and I'm not committing myself yet. But if nothing concrete emerges I prefer cxd3 on general principle. |
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| Oct-05-06 | | twinlark: Hi DOm, I'm back, and sorry I'm late...there's a post on my forum. Back shortly while I grab a bite and a shot of caffeine. Hi monad. I reckon there's a bit more cuase to cheer this morning. Only thing stops it being a lot better is that silly lad vlad slipping up. damn, oh well the poor lad's human too. |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: Postscript-- This just in!! "<DomDaniel> rather accurately reports that <19th century> sucked"-- As a history and Lit buff, I'd have to agree.. Also love Cohen-- saw a CBC documentary on him, and when he spoke in public he was much funnier than any professional stand up comic. Canada, like Ireland, is a soulful nation-- low population, high artistic output. Cheers, luck and love. Jess. |
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| Oct-05-06 | | twinlark: The third policeman and that most scary vision of hell as being of elliptical nature dooming us to return unknowingly to our moment of evil. sure beats that old bastit dante. |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: Can't resist one more comment-- Can't remember which volume of the Beckett Trilogy this is from-- the chessgame (with diagrams right in the book) in which neither player will move any pieces beyond the third rank, and one of them moves all his back rank pieces out, then right back where they originally started... can't stop laughing, you've opened a floodgate of humorous memories sir... |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL <twinlark> Well "quothed"... Dam <Dom> you got some brainy friends... |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <AdrianP> Thanks for the link - landed me slap bang in the midst of the Nabokoviana, too, without having to wade through the Short Stuff... I'm a Pale Fire fan myself. And Pnin. And Ada. And the rest, really... |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jessica> You really won't believe this one, but I used to play chess with Flann O'Brien/Myles's brother. They were a chess-playing family. Flann/Myles came back from a trip to Germany in the 1930s and put around a rumour that he'd beaten Alekhine while he was there. Total fabrication, but it was believed for years and even got into some biographies. Flann/Myles died around 1966, but his brother - a retired academic - was still around when I was a teenager around 1980. We played several casual games in a Dublin club. It's actually quite weird. As an occasional film critic I've met quite a few 'famous' people, but for me a game of chess with a retired prof 25 years ago has more meaning. Strange world, isn't it? |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jessica> The Beckett game is Murphy vs Endon, from his novel 'Murphy'. It has spoof annotations too. One player moves his knight back and forth endlessly, while the notes babble about his exquisitely subtle hypermodern style... |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <everybody>
Ohio wants to play a shock move like Qh5!! in the Nickel game, if only to wake the peloton from engine-induced slumber... <Jessica> has reminded me of Beckett's Catatonia Opening, where the same knight jumps to and fro forever... Hmm. I also told <Blingice> that I was a 'lapsed po-mo ho'... but maybe it's time to go all post-neo-intro-outro-modern on old Arno ... when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro ... This forum is now open to ideas of whatever nature. Hold on to your delusions by their little tentacles, and bring 'em forward... |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> LMAO- yep, that's the one. Thought it might have been <Molloy>... Great passage, eh? I'm still laughing thinking back on it... |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Good Lord man!!! What a life you have led so far... I'd trade in all I own (not much anyway) to actually meet Greenaway and O'Nuallain's brother, as you have.. Signed, MUCH impressed. Thank you for all of this incredible info... Jess. |
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Oct-05-06
| | jessicafischerqueen: Can't resist one more post-- re your cycling reference in your comment on the <Nickel game>... I watched almost all of last year's <Tour de France> at my parent's house (I've been on my own for three years now, and won't allow myself a TV-- way too busy now) Dam you are hilarious sir... <peloton> You crack me up. |
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Oct-05-06
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - I can't take the credit for peloton, I'm afraid. It was either <OhioChessFan> or <Monad> who used it first, and it's been thrown around a bit since... but thanks anyway.. ;] |
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| Oct-06-06 | | monad: <Domdaniel: - I can't take the credit for peloton,> You're too honest by far.
What's a bit of plagiarism between friends :-)
BTW, thanks for coming up with GM games that justify Qxd3.
Could you be more specific and line up the relevant game data for me please? I would like to play through them today.
(Whilst sitting on my rollers).
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Oct-06-06
| | Domdaniel: <Monad> I'm not sure they prove much, it's just that RookFile was insisting nobody ever ever ever played Qxd3 in any Sicilian whatsoever. I knew this wasn't true, so I quickly copied two lines from the most mainstream source at hand, Batsford's Modern Chess Openings, 14th ed, 2004 (De Firmian). I'll dig up some actual games if you like, but they shouldn't be hard to find via the Opening Explorer...
ta. |
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Oct-06-06
| | Domdaniel: Meanwhile, my (sigh) glamorous lifestyle has come calling again. Gotta go travel 200 miles to see a play, and then see it again, and then write about it.
Normal service will be resumed, sometime... |
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