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Domdaniel
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   Jan-08-19 Domdaniel chessforum (replies)
 
Domdaniel: Blank Reg: "They said there was no future - well, this is it."
 
   Jan-06-19 Kibitzer's Café (replies)
 
Domdaniel: Haaarry Neeeeds a Brutish Empire... https://youtu.be/ZioiHctAnac
 
   Jan-06-19 G McCarthy vs M Kennefick, 1977 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
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 (replies)
 
Domdaniel: This is the game I mean: Bogoljubov vs Alekhine, 1922
 
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Jan-20-07  hitman84: <As it happens, that (approximately) was the "quote of the day" in this site a few weeks ago>

<Eyal>I can't believe I missed my favourite quote!

<Alas, by that standard much of Twain's own work has achieved classic status.>

ROFL! good one!

Jan-20-07  Eyal: <mojoXX: It's clear that Lenny Bruce was an important social critic but was he really funny? Usually the aim of a comedian is to provide a release that makes people feel happy. Lenny's style of comedy made people feel really uncomfortable because he was busy exposing our hypocrisies.> Bruce's humor was very funny, and at the same time very subversive (rather then "escapist") - I think these qualities can certainly co-exist. Monty Python humor, btw, can also be said to be very subversive - though on a more "philosophical" level, making us feel not-so-comfortable about the nature of language and logic.
Jan-20-07  mojoXX: <Eyal> I like your description of Lenny's humor as subversive. He certainly made people of the "Establishment" very angry. ;-)
Jan-20-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: No sex or racism at <CG.com>, please, "We're British."
Jan-20-07  TheSlid: <Eyal> Very funny story! Of course, not all bartenders in England now would know about Martini's, given that most of them are Polish. : )
Jan-20-07  Eyal: <jessicafischerqueen: No sex or racism at <CG.com>, please, "We're British."> Quite unfair to the British, I think...vintage American PC puritanism, rather.
Jan-21-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: Well OK then. I can't remember who won the two wars between you guys. All I remember is the two times the <vintage American Puritans> invaded Canada. Canada 2, US 0. heh.

The <no sex please, we're British> is, as you well know, itself a <British> film.

Hope that lets me off the hook.

Jan-21-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: hA HAHHH <PC Puritanism> a pun!!

Just got the pun. Politically correct, personal computer. And they both apply!! Apply Liberally until your society is no longer Liberal.

Jan-21-07  Eyal: And having mentioned Political Correctness, here is a tribute to its great moral and educational value:

<Little Red Riding Hood – The PC Version (part 1)>

There once was a young person named Little Red Riding Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered owls and rare plants that would probably provide a cure for cancer if only someone took the time to study them.

Red Riding Hood lived with a nurture giver whom she sometimes referred to as "mother", although she didn't mean to imply by this term that she would have thought less of the person if a close biological link did not in fact exist.

Nor did she intend to denigrate the equal value of nontraditional households, although she was sorry if this was the impression conveyed.

One day her mother asked her to take a basket of organically grown fruit and mineral water to her grandmother's house.

"But mother, won't this be stealing work from the unionized people who have struggled for years to earn the right to carry all packages between various people in the woods?"

Red Riding Hood's mother assured her that she had called the union boss and gotten a special compassionate mission exemption form.

"But mother, aren't you oppressing me by ordering me to do this?"

Red Riding Hood's mother pointed out that it was impossible for womyn to oppress each other, since all womyn were equally oppressed until all womyn were free.

"But mother, then shouldn't you have my brother carry the basket, since he's an oppressor, and should learn what it's like to be oppressed?"

And Red Riding Hood's mother explained that her brother was attending a special rally for animal rights, and besides, this wasn't stereotypical womyn's work, but an empowering deed that would help engender a feeling of community.

"But won't I be oppressing Grandma, by implying that she's sick and hence unable to independently further her own selfhood?"

But Red Riding Hood's mother explained that her grandmother wasn't actually sick or incapacitated or mentally handicapped in any way (although that was not to imply that any of these conditions were inferior to what some people called "health").

Thus Red Riding Hood felt that she could get behind the idea of delivering the basket to her grandmother, and so she set off with her basket through the woods.

Jan-21-07  Eyal: <Little Red Riding Hood – The PC Version (part 2)>

Many people believed that the forest was a foreboding and dangerous place and never set foot in it. Red Riding Hood, however, was confident enough in her own budding sexuality that such obvious Freudian imagery did not intimidate her.

On the way to Grandma's house, Red Riding Hood was accosted by a wolf, who asked her what was in her basket. She replied, "Some healthful snacks for my grandmother, who is certainly capable of taking care of herself as a mature adult."

The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone."

Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore it because of your traditional status as an outcast from society, the stress of which has caused you to develop your own, entirely valid, worldview. Now, if you'll excuse me, I must be on my way."

Red Riding Hood walked on along the main path. But, because his status outside society had freed him from slavish adherence to linear, Western-style thought, the wolf knew a quicker route to Grandma's house. He burst into the house and ate Grandma (an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself). Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist notions of what was masculine or feminine, he put on Grandma's nightclothes and crawled into bed.

Red Riding Hood entered the cottage and said, "Grandma, I have brought you some fat-free, sodium-free snacks to salute you in your role of a wise and nurturing matriarch."

From the bed, the wolf said softly, "Come closer, child, so that I might see you."

Red Riding Hood said, "Oh, I forgot you are as optically challenged as a bat. Grandma, what big eyes you have!"

"They have seen much, and forgiven much, my dear."

"Grandma, what a big nose you have, only relatively, of course, and certainly attractive in its own way!"

"It has smelled much, and forgiven much, my dear."

"Grandma, what big teeth you have!"

The wolf said, "I am happy with who I am and what I am," and leaped out of bed. He grabbed Red Riding Hood in his claws, intent on devouring her. Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward crossdressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

Her screams were heard by a passing woodchopperperson (or log-fuel technician, as he preferred to be called). When he burst into the cottage, he saw the melee and tried to intervene. But as he raised his ax, Red Riding Hood and the wolf both stopped.

"And just what do you think you're doing?" asked Red Riding Hood.

The woodchopper-person blinked and tried to answer, but no words came to him.

"Bursting in here like a Neanderthal, trusting your weapon to do your thinking for you!" she exclaimed. "Sexist! Speciesist! How dare you assume that womyn and wolves can't solve their own problems without a man's help!"

When she heard Red Riding Hood's impassioned speech, Grandma jumped out of the wolf's mouth, seized the woodchopperperson's ax, and cut his head off. After this ordeal, Red Riding Hood, Grandma, and the wolf felt a certain commonality of purpose. They decided to set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, and they lived together in the woods happily ever after.

Jan-22-07  Nibiru: Haha, bloody hilarious!
Jan-22-07  JDK: <Eyal> Classic! ... actually forget that as I actually have read it :)

I wonder if there is an entire book of PC Nursery Tales out there? They could be read by Jade Goody as she has a certain eloquence :)

Jan-22-07  Eyal: <JDK> See http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/book...; the "Little Red Riding Hood" I posted is actually a combination of Finn Garner's text with some other good bits I found in another web-version.
Jan-23-07  Eyal: I've just met a wonderful man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything.

(Woody Allen, "The Purple Rose of Cairo")

Jan-23-07  Nibiru: You mean Domdaniel?
Jan-23-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: <The Purple Rose of Cairo v. The Yellow Rose of Texas>

15 rounds!!

This evening at Madison Square Gardens.

Jan-23-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: <Dom's> not fictional. He's the means of production.
Jan-23-07  Eyal: <<Dom's> not fictional. He's the means of production.> Are you implying that he's owned by the bourgeoisie?
Jan-23-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: <Eyal> lol just going through <Lukacs> on <The Novel>, thought I'd throw that in.

<Dom's> a world historical figure.

He's got <historicityness>

Jan-23-07  Eyal: <just going through <Lukacs> on <The Novel>> Happy are those ages when the starry sky is the map of all possible paths - ages whose paths are illuminated by the light of the stars. Everything in such ages is new and yet familiar, full of adventure and yet their own...

(A good example you should be careful with your opening sentences - if they're too good, the rest of the book might be rather a let-down).

Jan-23-07
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  jessicafischerqueen: <Eyal>: too true. Such as the sentence the agricultural student begins his piece with in <James Thurber's> hilarious short story <University Days>:

"Who has noticed the sores on top of the horses in the Animal Husbandry building?"

And from the same story, regarding a star football player failing an economics class:

"While he was not dumber than an ox, nor was he any smarter."

Heh

Jan-23-07  Eyal: Ah, Thurber...as a detective fiction addict, his "The Macbeth Murder Mystery" (http://userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/a...) has always been one of my favourite stories.

Jan-25-07  Eyal: From the Topalov vs Carlsen, 2007 page:

<keypusher: Oh, come here and kiss me, you goateed Bulgarian rogue! Your exchange sacrifices are irresistable!>

Jan-25-07  hitman84: <Eyal>Check out this forum.. Its where we post funny quotes by chessgamers.

Memorable Quotes chessforum

Jan-25-07  Eyal: <hitman84> Check out User: karpova for another Hall of Fame of chessgamers' quotes.
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