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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 69 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-09-07    WannaBe: If you want some lessons in the Scotch, another person's brain to pick on is <Swapmeet>, he's taught me a lot in that. (Black side, since I use the Scotch as white. =) Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <WannaBe> thanks for the tip, mate. Feb-09-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> At the same tournament where I played this game, I happened to overhear an IM doing a postmortem with somebody he'd just beaten. Sounding almost surprised, he said something like "it's strange, after this all my pieces are on good squares, and yours are on bad squares..." - like he hadn't planned it that way. Maybe it's the self-deprecatory thing again. I knew that after ...Qxd3 I'd have much the better game, but it still sorta seems like an accident. I'm not sure what I'd have done if White hadn't played f5, and just calmly bolstered the d-file with 22.Rfd1. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: LOL <Dom> <hadn't planned it that way> Isn't that one of the great things about chess? Check out <The Alchemist's> comments on this topic in his forum. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: Also, after 22.Rfd1 you are hardly in trouble... Isn't that one of the advantages of retaining the tension and slowly improving your position, especially for black? Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: I like to blow the board apart as soon as possible in open games, but <Josh Waitzkin> is teaching me the virtues of patience on my <Chessmaster> software... That one should never, never release the tension until one is sure a concrete advantage will obtain... Feb-09-07    TheAlchemist: <Domdaniel> I think Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Bareev, Radjabov, Akopian play it sometimes, and religiously by Lputian (you should see for example how he defeated Grischuk at the Olympiad 2002). <Fashions are funny in the French.> Yes, a few years ago the Rubinstein variation was popular, until Black suffered some spectacular defeats and it was practically gone (Khalifman-Bareev, Morozevich-Van Wely and even more so after Kasparov-Ponomariov). Then, suddenly Nf6 was back (Radjabov), but with White playing the Steinitz variation exclusively and not Bg5. The Advance was later popularized by Grischuk, I think. And so on... But this only shows how White has great problems against it. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Alchemist> I positively HATE playing white against the French, I play <winawer> if given the chance but I still feel like I'm in a straitjacket in the opening. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: Re <Waitzkin> on releasing tension. <never release the tension until one is certain a concrete advantage will obtain> Would this not apply to lovemaking as well? Just "thinking" out loud... Feb-09-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> I've just been looking up some Scotch games, actually. I found one in a database - from the Olympiad for the blind in 2000 - that followed your game for a few moves, but got silly later on. Everything I thought I knew about the Scotch said Black had to answer 3.d4 with 3...exd4. Yet 3...Nf6 seems oddly playable, although it's very rare and can transpose into several other openings. I did some preparation last year on the Belgrade Gambit - Four Knights with d4 and Nd5 - but chickened out and reverted to my usual English/Reti stuff as White. Once a creeper, always a creeper. I know <boz> recommended a complete change of openings here a while back, but I can't just waltz in and start playing 'em - I feel I have to know the terrain. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> yes, I've run into Nf6 more than a few times on Yahoo, and not always with good results for me... I know the Main Line and the Steinitz Line well. I'm also struggling with expanding reptoire, especially white/black d4 games... Most of my chess study time is devoted to endgames, so it's kind of frustrating cuz I have a very limited repetoire and I love reading about opening theory (it's the pedant in me). I'm learning to play KID as black passably well, but my d4 games are dreadful still at this point... Feb-09-07    Eyal: <Dom> Just gone through the game - have to agree with jess about you're being too self-deprecatory. It seems that the two critical moves in the game were 21-22. 21.Nh4? shows very poor judgment of the position - if this knight goes to d4 instead, then White is perfectly fine; and 22.f5? doesn't recognize the danger on the d-file - 22.Bc4 seems mandatory here. So after 22...Nf4! White is essentially lost, though of course it's easier said in analysis after the game than done otb. Nice final trap and combination. Two minor points - after 15...Bb6+, White has an option of Nc5 but not Nd4 (because of Nxd4 followed by Ba4) - after 26.bxc5 (rather than Rxc5) Black is of course still winning, but at least g5 to win a piece doesn't work, because 27.fxg6 fxg6 28.Bxh6 is possible (the bishop isn't pinned here, since the rook on f1 is porotected). Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: Oh one more thing I like playing White against <Alekhine> cuz I'm a suicidally aggressive player by nature... I fling pawns forward chasing that dang knight all over the place, I love the space and the chaos I get out of it... Feb-09-07    Eyal: <jess> If you like to chase knights with pawns you should go over the following game: Marshall vs H Rogosin, 1940 Feb-09-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Yeah, you can't beat the KID for ratcheting up tension. I've played a few, usually the White side of the Fianchetto or Kavalek variations, where tension keeps building and building. From what you say, they should maybe have a Kama Sutra variation too... Kibitzing here on live games taught me about the sheer chaos, even in GM games, when they start to run low on time. Just playing through moves from a book or database is no comparison, unless the times are given as well. And yet - there's always an 'and yet' - sometimes having time to think is bad for one. I've occasionally played very well in time scrambles, going on pure instinct - and often played horribly with all the time in the world. One of those Sorrowful Mysteries, chess, innit? Feb-09-07    Domdaniel: <Alchemist> I tip my plumed French hat to you, monsieur. Very thorough. Feb-09-07    TheAlchemist: <Dom> No reason to. All that still doesn't help me when I have to face it :-) <I've occasionally played very well in time scrambles, going on pure instinct - and often played horribly with all the time in the world. One of those Sorrowful Mysteries, chess, innit?> Bronstein asked himself the same question, regarding how some players play bad moves in the openings and later, those same players, find brilliant moves in time pressure. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> isn't he? and <Eyal's> no slouch either. Heh. With <Alchemist> as our captain in the Consultation game (in his forum), I like our chances.. <Eyal> whooeeee! That's some game. Posted my comments in your forum. Feb-09-07    Eyal: <jessicafischerqueen: Most of my chess study time is devoted to endgames> Have to quote Joe on that one: <I studied the endgame, just like the book said – but they never let me get to the endgame in tournaments> Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Eyal> LOL that's from <Shropshire>? or another Joe? Every single thing I ever read about improving one's game said to spend most of study time on endgames... Hard work but I didn't start improving until I started working on them. That said, I keep blowing <Petrovs> with the white pieces it's driving me nuts... Often don't even get to the middle game. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: In fact it's so frustrating I'm seriously considering not capturing the e5 pawn anymore. Feb-09-07    Eyal: <jess> I meant Joewms (for the original context, see JoeWms chessforum). Feb-09-07    TheAlchemist: <Jessica> You can play 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 (Svidler plays or at least played this exclusively) or 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 (Topalov played this recently). Also, the simple 3.Nc3 can be considered. Or, as I have tried sometimes, 3.Bc4, which is risky. Feb-09-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Alchemist> thanks tons for them <Petrov> tips on not taking the e5 pawn. I've written them down and will test them out at the first opportunity... Feb-09-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Synchronicity City - I just saw a clip of Bill Clinton on TV saying "I have sinned". A thing about body language, of which there was plenty. Small universe. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 69 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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