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| Jan-29-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I had a similar experience with architecture. I didn't have the small motor skills necessary to print nice letters at the bottom of my drawings. Of course, all of this is now done with computers.
<deffi> We still appreciate you for all your talents. BTW, you forgot photography. |
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Jan-29-11
 | | Domdaniel: <Deffi> What hms says. Anyways, you're a *boss accountant* now, aintcha? You get to tell ordinary accountants that they'd better buck up their accounting, or count on an encounter with the dole office. Power. Nothing quite like it.
Not that I'd know. |
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| Jan-29-11 | | achieve: <Dom> Very accurate and enjoyable comments by you on the Giri-Anand gamepage today. Extending on that I think it was a pity we didn't get to taste the icing on the cake, yet, but surely Anish took it to the world champ in some style; Carlsen has yet to break Vishy as well btw, if that's a way of putting it. I was most impressed by both today, more so than normally when I'm following a super GM game, and the accumulating pressure Giri created against Giant Anand I had not yet anticipated to be in his grasp. Maybe I'm slightly biased, but this was an adolescent taking it to the man. Your "Fast Eddie Gufeld" post was spot on.
Now I feel sorry partly that I wasn't there Live, in the playing hall. |
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Jan-29-11
| | Domdaniel: <hms> Small motor skills? I can't even drive a Mini. I can do small print and other fiddly things, though. Being myopic helps. |
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Jan-29-11
 | | Open Defence: <hms> photography is my penance for accounting, i had to account for it some day... |
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Jan-29-11
 | | Annie K.: <I'd heard that bathing frequently necessitates the use of water, which is often wet.> Yeah... and I heard Dihydrogen Monoxide was very dangerous, too! 8s http://www.dhmo.org
<I am, however, compiling a game collection to be named <Collapse of Stout Party> in which overweight grandmasters get clobbered.> There should be a band about, to start playing "The Twist", every time they give check, anyway. |
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Jan-29-11
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Thanks ... I even envy your proximity to *unquestionably the world's finest chess tournament*. Giri is showing reserves of the Right Stuff. A star, no question. His play seems 'mature' in a totally different way to the sense in which Carlsen is 'mature'. Kids grow up fast. The nephew that I didn't quite teach chess to is now a fencing sensation in Denmark. He wavered between the two - having come close to winning a chess game against me - then chose fencing on the grounds that it involved thinking fast *and* jumping around stabbing people. A true Viking. |
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Jan-29-11
| | Domdaniel: <Deffi> There are *some* famous chess-playing accountants. Reshevsky, for one. Though I don't know what his slide guitar technique was like. |
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Jan-29-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> I'm enjoying your posted games very much, though the tactical style sets my teeth rattling. Our OTB ratings are now almost identical, it seems - I finally stopped my 300-point plummet just short of 1700, and even clambered back to the 1750s. A rating that would have seemed pathetically low just a couple of years ago now feels like an actual achievement. Once I get to 1800 I may be able to start breathing again. Of course, regularly losing to players with ratings of 1032 doesn't help the cause. I don't beat enough of the 2100+ crowd anymore, so I can no longer make up for mishaps with a single counter-mishap. I just have to try to win the 'easy' games. But which games are easy? What do ratings signify? Here are my first-round games from the Mulcahy Cup, 2010 and 2011. First, 2010. This is how I thought a 1080 should play - throws material at my wimp opening, then rouses me to mate him. No problemo. Big mismatch. [Event "Mulcahy"]
[Site "Cork"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "1.13"]
[White "McCarthy, Gerry"]
[Black "GC"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1717"]
[BlackElo "1083"]
1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nc6 3.d4 Bf5 4.Bg2 e5 5.Nxe5 Qf6 6.Nxc6 Qxc6 7.c3 Nf6 8.Nd2 Be7 9.c4 Qe6 10.O-O b6 11.cxd5 Nxd5 12.e4 O-O-O 13.exd5 Qd7 14.Qe2 h5 15.d6 Bxd6 16.Qa6+ Kb8 17. Qb7# 1-0 I won't pretend I played well. I faffed around and he let me mate him. And this is 2011. My opponent's rating is actually lower. I suppose I was expecting something similar. I just didn't think I'd be on the receiving end. [Event "Mulcahy"]
[Site "Cork"]
[Date "2011.01.15"]
[Round "1"]
[White "BP"]
[Black "McCarthy, Gerry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A34"]
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 Nc6 4.g3 d6 5.Bg2 g6 6.d3 Bg7 7.Nf3 a6 8.O-O Bg4 9.Ne2 Qd7 10.Be3 Rb8 11.a4 b6 12.Nc3 h5 13.h4 Qc8 14.Qd2 Bxf3 15.Bxf3 Nd4 16.Bxd4 cxd4 17.Nd5 Nd7
18.a5 Bh6 19.Qe2 bxa5 20.Rxa5 e6 21.Rxa6 exd5 22.exd5+ Kf8 23.Rxd6 Rb6
24.Rxb6 Nxb6 25.d6 Qe6 26.Qxe6 fxe6 27.c5 Nd5 28.Bxd5 exd5 29.Re1 Bd2
30.Re7 Bb4 31.Rc7 Ba5 32.Rc8+ Kg7 33.Rxh8 Kxh8 34.c6 1-0 What can I say? He played very well. My initial attempt to exploit the pin on f3 got nowhere, so I decided not to castle and play ...h5. He instantly blocked it. I was actually pleased with myself for finding 17...Nd7 - threatening to surround his knight - when he played 18.a5! and let me win a piece. According to Fritz, I had a slight advantage before and after this fracas. But I then misjudged it totally, exchanging into a lost ending when I should be fighting for counterplay. My 23...Rb6 was horrible, and I wouldn't have played it against a stronger player ... but I was still thinking in terms of being a piece up. I ask you. If a 1032 guy plays that well - and the sac was no accident, he'd seen the forks and tactics - what do any of those numbers mean? |
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Jan-29-11
| | Domdaniel: OK, I went completely to pieces there. Every black move after 23...Rb6 is a blunder. I was in cloudcuckooland, still assuming his 'try' would fail. This guy's son, rated over 1000 points higher, set a clever trap for me - but I dug away at it until I found a way out. Here it was too late by the time I saw there was anything to be worried about. Horrible. And it comes from playing the man, the woman, or the rating. When the G--d L--d decides it's time us arrogant f--ks deserve a comeuppance, He really ups the comings. I am duly chastened. I'll probably do it again, though. |
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Jan-29-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom> Ouch. Yeah, underestimating the opponent is the worst mistake possible in a chess game. :( But the ratings are not meaningless, of course, by definition - they mean he hasn't done well previously. This can mean all sorts of things, but yeah - don't bank on it. Even a weak player can has that one great day, sometime. ;s <I'm enjoying your posted games very much, though the tactical style sets my teeth rattling.> BTW, there seems to be some kind of minor internal conflict in this sentence...? ;) |
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Jan-30-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Not really a conflict. I try not to bite people - you never know where they've been - and as a result my remaining teeth don't get much excitement these days. So they like a good rattle. The same goes for my trembling heart and my jangling nerve ends. It's all good. |
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Jan-30-11
| | Annie K.: Ah, ok then, glad to hear that. ;) |
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Jan-30-11
| | Annie K.: Oh and innaresting posts, btw.
<[...] and I soon understood that it doesn't matter a whit what, if anything, one 'studies'. What counts is what you're *innarested* in ... everything except clerical speed and accuracy, in my case.> Agreed 120% (well, maybe a little math should be necessary...) ;) ...and it's most everything except sports, fashion and "celebrities", in my case. :) |
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Jan-30-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> - < a weak player can has that one great day>
Yep, but they can has them against me far too often. But I was the same in my wayward youth - I was 'demoted' from board 6/7 on my (strong) club's A-team - where I tended to play 'weaker' opposition and would inappropriately throw away games - to top board on the 'B' team, where the opponents outrated me heavily. But the powers that be felt I could win or draw some, which I did. And I much preferred the games. But there's something wrong with my style and openings when it comes to our lesser-spotted brethren. I tend to wind positions into a complex ball until something snaps. And it can be me. Meanwhile I see others breezily going 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 and winning in 10 moves. Nice, simple, clear, crushing tactics. You'd be in heaven. Maybe I still think I have a duty of care to hypermodernism. I should mebbe take a closer look at Kasparov, who combined innaresting openings with crushing wins. Of course when *he* wound complex balls he usually knew what he was doing. ;) |
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Jan-30-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> how could you possibly imagine I had you in mind when I referred to certain people having "no content" in their posts? Good heavens man.
"Incomprehensible content" is in no way related to "no content." Quite the contrary! |
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Jan-31-11
| | Domdaniel: <jess> This is true, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that one way for this to be true is flubba flubba k'pah ngyt berf tad. |
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Jan-31-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> I see celebrity as an interesting phenomenon. The names and doings of the vacuous nonentities who (presumably) populate that world have no interest to me ... yet to examine the phenomenon scientifically it is necessary to at least know some of their names. That's my excuse anyhoo. I'm really much more interested in those who understood the toxicity of fame and refused to play. The so-called recluses: Pynchon, Salinger, Scott Walker, et al. Not that I'd ever intrude or anything. As for sport, it's mostly just the sweaty branch of celebrity (one of two such branches, ackshully, but we won't mention t'other). Plus a curious combination of tribalism and geek statistics. |
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| Jan-31-11 | | dakgootje: <flubba flubba k'pah ngyt berf tad.> Unless you have a hovercraft. |
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Jan-31-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dak> a reference to the notorious "faulty Hungarian-English Dictionary" from Monty Python? "My hovercraft is full of eels."
And my favorite
"I want to fondle your bum." |
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Jan-31-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: *Ajax Amsterdam* |
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Jan-31-11
| | Domdaniel: I thought it was a pun on Flubber the Bush Kangaroo, and the infamous hovercrafting doctors of the outback. The lift stops between two floors. |
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Jan-31-11
| | Domdaniel: As Ronald Reagan said, "Szeretném a magyar nép testnek!" |
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| Jan-31-11 | | Lennonfan: <domdaniel> just had a look at your bio and previous kibitzing..you really do *TALK SOME CRAP*dont you?
<jessicafischergroupie>...iv looked at your "bobby fischer loving,sad life,spinster,nearly 30 THOUSAND kibitzes in 5 or 6yr(ever left your house love?),cant play chess just like talking to people who can etc..etc..etc...bio before.....and you also really do *TALK SOME CRAP*....*maybe you should use your posh words and education to take shots at someone like me,instead of less fortunate kibitzers who fail to understand your *crap*?? Just a thought.. |
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Jan-31-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom> So, I take it you are fascinated by fashion? ;) <Meanwhile I see others breezily going 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3 and winning in 10 moves. Nice, simple, clear, crushing tactics. You'd be in heaven.> I never play that - it's against my principles, or something. :s <As Ronald Reagan said, "Szeretném a magyar nép testnek!"> Owwwww. |
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