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Nov-13-11
 | | Domdaniel: I've been asked to play in a FIDE-rated league match for a local club -- not the club I played for a couple of years ago. In fact, I think this will be the 8th club I've played for. It won't get me a FIDE rating, of course, unless I knuckle down and play a lot more games inside a couple of years. Which never seems to happen. |
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Nov-15-11
| | Domdaniel: I used my 20,000th post to make some semi-literate and analytically dubious point during a live game. So it goes. At least it was a live game between women. |
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| Nov-15-11 | | mworld: <I used my 20,000th post to make some semi-literate and analytically dubious point during a live game.> welcome to the 21st century Domdaniel. |
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Nov-16-11
| | Domdaniel: At last I am <21st century schizoid man>. Perhaps will shut up now. I hear your faint cries of protest already. |
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| Nov-18-11 | | mworld: flashbacks of catholic silence. learning in silence. praying in silence? praying to silence? praying for silence? |
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Nov-19-11
 | | LIFE Master AJ: SNEAK PEEK:
You will be the second person ... maybe other than my friend John and my oldest daughter ... to get a look at this web page! (I have not even posted the links for it yet.) http://www.ajschess.com/lifemastera... Of course, you will remember this project, as you provided a nice analysis of this whole line ... this is my version. |
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Nov-19-11
| | Domdaniel: <AJ> Thanks. It looks promising. Can I be first to say "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes". Or, as it's usually translated "I fear the Greeks and the gifts they bring". |
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Nov-19-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: ha-ha |
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Nov-19-11
| | Domdaniel: I played two match games today, for my latest club. Opted to play Black in both games (on board 2) to spread harmonious vibes among my fellow team members by letting them play White. Also, I prefer Black. First game, I won against a 2100 with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 a6 -- he'd beaten me before in the Winawer, and I wanted to try something different. It worked. I won the 2nd game too, with a Kangaroo ... More anon. |
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Nov-19-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks for dropping by with some trademark wit and well wishing- it was great to see you in my gaff again. Did you know "Andy Gaffigan" is a real person?
Actually he's Irish no? |
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Nov-19-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: BTW, thanks for your analysis, and that of <Morf>'s as well. IF the web page is pretty good, its mostly because of all the excellent feedback that I received. |
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Nov-20-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> I really can't thank you enough, first for watching the <Nezh> film and also for posting such encouraging comments about it. Really puts wind in my sails, coming from you in particular- given not only your vocation, but also given our five year history of no-holds barred, bare knuckle, frighteningly candid discussion of films, particularly the dreaded "art film." A few of the results from our recent dustups have been auspicious for me, however- I revisited both <Herzog> and <Von Trier>, to an excessive extent, in honor of your somewhat excessive defence of their excesses. I actually have all of their films on my computer now. I've even watched some of them! Actually I'm missing some I saw at Uni including some key outings such as the documentary on Ski Jumping and the indispensable "Even Dwarves Started out Small." At any rate, off topic as usual, but again I'm chuffed from your remarks and also glad we've had a chance to palaver on films and film history over the years. The best part is we still get to do it!
Best regards,
Batchimeg at the Movies
(stealing films from the internet division) |
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Nov-20-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Like, totally awesome. (I'm working on my vernacular so I can blend with the crowd.) BTW, I *wasn't* joking when I described my typical posture -- laptop on floor, me kneeling before it in heathen-idol-worship position. I actually do this. Right now I'm using a variant: comp on floor, me squatting on haunches in a vaguely Asiatic manner, knees together and heels on floor. Some people can't do this, as either muscles or fat get in the way. I am not burdened by much of either. Srsly, the Nezh photo archive stuff is superb. As is the music. It all fits so well, and tells an amazing story. |
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Nov-20-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: I took the liberty of taking you at your word regarding your internet posture- sounds healthy, aboriginal even. Do you ever hold a spear in one hand whilst typing with the other? Your latest description reminds me of a line from Coppola's <Apocalypse Now>, written by John Milius: "Charlie didn't get much R and R. Maybe a bowl of cold rice and a little rat meat." You should pass on your comment about the score of <Nezh> to our eminently cultured friend <Thanh Phan>, because she found and spoon-fed me about 1/3 of the soundtrack. She not only "knows music" she knows what music would show well in a chess history film. |
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Nov-20-11
| | Domdaniel: A Game.
[Event "Munster tt, CCYMS-Ennis A"]
[Site "Mallow"]
[Date "2011.11.19"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Quinn, Rory"]
[Black "McCarthy, Gerry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "2110"]
[BlackElo "1770"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 a6 4.e5 c5 5.Nce2 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Ne7 7.f4 Nbc6 8.Ngf3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Nc6 10.Nb3 Be7 (10... g5!?)
11.Bd3 h5 12.O-O g6 13.c3 b5 14.Be3 Qc7 15.Qc2 Rg8 16.a4 Rb8 17.Rfc1 (17.axb5 axb5 18. Qe2)
17... g5! 18.Nd4 gxf4 19.Bxf4
Nxe5 20.Qe2 Bd6 21.Rf1
click for larger view
(21.axb5 Nxd3 22.Bxd6 Nxc1 23.Qe5 is unclear)
21...Ng4! 22.Bxd6 Qxd6 23.g3 h4 24.Rf4? (24. Bh7!?) 24... Nxh2 25.Nf5 Qxf4 26.Kxh2 hxg3+ 27.Kg2 Qf2+ (27... d4) 28.Qxf2 gxf2+ 29.Ng3 bxa4
30.Ra2 Rb3 31.Kxf2 a3 32.bxa3 Rxc3 33.Rc2 Rxc2+ 34.Bxc2 Ke7 35.Kf3 e5
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Nov-20-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> and while we're talking about it don't forget our eminently cultured friend <Annie> put hundreds of woman hours into researching and recording the proper pronunciations of scads of chess names and places- this work was in fact indispensable to the film, with additional deep background by crabby, albeit accurate, linguist <Switching Owls for Thugs>. Although as Switch pointed out, there was a bit of "Chinese whispers" happening from Annie's recordings to me and Richard's cloth ears. He's a lot better at doing Eastern European names than me, however, possibly because of his DNA. He's Eastern European in ultimate origin, although I maintain that he can't even identify Eastern Europe on a map. We were taken sternly to task for <Stahlberg> in particular. |
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Nov-20-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: No wonder you're in a good mood man, that's a marvelous outing- from today eh? An impressive scalp from Gerry "No Castle" McCarthy. I hope you're submitting this, will look good on your player page and boost your stats as well. |
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Nov-20-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I have never for a moment doubted the talents of our eminently cultured friends Annie and Thanh Phan. They should call you three 'The Supremes' because, um, you don't sit in the back of the bus, and you play Motown Chess. |
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Nov-20-11
| | Domdaniel: My other game from yesterday is too dull to give in full, but it had two mini-combinations. First when my opponent missed a trap in the opening:
click for larger view
And 14...Nxf2 15.Rxf2 Bxf2+ 16.Kxf2 Qc5+ and 17...Qxc4 picks up the Exchange and a pawn. He played 17.Kg3 after the check, and I really should have mated him. But I ground on into an ending, knowing that my passed e-pawn would win. Eventually the chance arose, though I was breaking through anyway.
click for larger view48...Rxh4 49.Bxg3 Rg4 50.Kf2 e3+!
51.Kf3 Rxg3+ 52.Kxg3 Kd4 53.Kf3 Kd3
0-1
I was tired by then, but not *that* tired. To be fair, my opponent here wasn't in quite the same league as my earlier conquest. I got a message today saying that thanks to my scintillating 2/2 (on board 2) with Black, my new club team has jumped to 3rd place in the league. |
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Nov-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: Quinn,Rory (2110) - McCarthy,Gerry (1770) [C10]
Munster tt, CCYMS-Ennis A Mallow (1.2), 19.11.2011
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 a6 4.e5 c5 5.Nce2 cxd4 6.Nxd4 Ne7 7.f4 Nbc6 8.Ngf3 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Nc6 10.Nb3 Be7 [10...g5!?] 11.Bd3 h5!? [¹11...a5! 12.Be3 a4 13.Nd4 Qb6÷ ; A.J.G. ] 12.0-0 g6 13.c3 b5!? 14.Be3 Qc7 15.Qc2 [Better was: ¹15.a4!± , and White is on top. A.J.G. ] 15...Rg8 16.a4 Rb8 ;
Playing ...bxa4 mght have been better, at least, according to the computer. 17.Rfc1 ,
This was an error, White makes one prepatory move too many.
[According to Fritz, if White has played:
¹17.axb5 axb5 18.Qe2± , White's game would be nearly overwhleming. ] 17...g5! 18.Nd4 gxf4 19.Bxf4 [Better was: ¹19.Nxc6! fxe3 20.Nxb8² , A.J.G. ] 19...Nxe5 20.Qe2? , A mistake. A.J.G. [¹20.Rf1²] 20...Bd6 21.Rf1!? [¹21.axb5 Nxd3 22.Bxd6 Nxc1 23.Qe5÷ is unclear;
¹21.Bxe5 Bxe5 22.axb5 Bxh2+ 23.Kh1 Bf4 24.Rf1 axb5 25.Nxb5 Qe5 26.Qf2 Qg7!³ ; - Fritz 12. A.J.G. ] 21...Ng4! 22.Bxd6!? , This is probably a bad idea, g2-g3 looked to be better. A.J.G. [¹22.g3 b4³] 22...Qxd6 23.g3 [Probably better was: 23.Nf3 , A.J.G.] 23...h4 24.Rf4? [24.Bh7!?] 24...Nxh2! 25.Nf5?? Qxf4  26.Kxh2 hxg3+ 27.Kg2 Qf2+ [27...d4] 28.Qxf2 gxf2+ 29.Ng3 bxa4 30.Ra2 Rb3 31.Kxf2 a3 32.bxa3 Rxc3 33.Rc2 Rxc2+ 34.Bxc2 Ke7 35.Kf3 e5 0-1 Enjoyed the game ... Korchnoi is one of my favorite players. I loved how he would win with the French. |
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Nov-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: BTW, are the ratings in the above game backwards? Are those FIDE - or BCF? (Or something else?) I like the way Black left his King in the center - and when White muffed things, Black opened the game and ripped White to pieces. |
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Nov-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: This - for now - is my favorite French game ...
http://www.ajschess.com/lifemastera...
BTW, I have always meant to do a "Top Ten" set of games ... for each opening. Would you like to take a crack for the French? |
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Nov-22-11
| | Domdaniel: <AJ> Thanks for the commentary on my game. The ratings are Irish (ICU) - my opponent, Quinn, also has a FIDE rating, which (unusually) is slightly lower, around 2070. This game will be FIDE rated -- all I have to do now is play another 20 or so. I've actually beaten him before, at a time when he was around 2150. I don't think he enjoys playing me, although he won a 3rd game, a Winawer French. That was one reason I decided to try 3...a6 here, after looking it over the night before. Most books ignore it. Even Watson, who covers lines such as 3.Nc3 Nc6, 3.Nd2 h6, and 3.Nd2 a6 in his 'Dangerous Weapons: the French', skips over it. Psakhis has a couple of games in his 4-volume French series, but nothing on 4.e5. I decided to treat it as a kind of Advance Variation, with a misplaced Knight on c3. My ...h5 was risky, and objectively I was worse for a few moves. White could have caused more problems, as you say, with a timely axb5 -- it worried me during the game. But once I got the initiative on the kingside things started to go well. It's ironic. I was talking to you before about slow, positional maneuvers, as if I played that way. In fact I prefer this kind of chaos. You're quite right about the influence of Korchnoi, my original chess hero. The Fischer-Spassky match got me interested in chess, but I was still too weak to understand the moves. But two years later, when Korchnoi and Karpov played their candidates final - 24 games to select an opponent for Fischer - I was utterly enthralled. I got a lot of my opening repertoire from Korchnoi, and have mostly played the French ever since. I'd be happy to suggest a French top ten, if you like. There are absolute classics such as Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976, which would make any such list. But there are lesser-known games too -- one of my favorites, not in the CG database, is a win by the Irish FM Joe Ryan, against a strong opponent in Gausdal, Norway. Black won by leaving his King in the centre and pushing both his a- and h-pawns. I should submit it, or post the score here in the meantime. I once played the French against Ryan in the last round of a weekend tournament, on the top board. As another French fan, he decided to sidestep with Chigorin's old move 2.Qe2, and we wound up drawing. |
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Nov-22-11
| | Domdaniel: I was wrong about the location of the Ryan game -- it was in the EU rapid championships in Greece. Look at those wing pawns go... [Event "EU-ch rapid"]
[Site "Athens"]
[Date "1997.??.??"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Geenen, Marc"]
[Black "Ryan, Joseph"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C06"]
[WhiteElo "2325"]
[BlackElo "2245"]
[EventDate "1997.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn (rapid)"]
[EventRounds "13"]
[EventCountry "GRE"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4
a5 9.f4 h5 10.Nf3 g6 11.O-O a4 12.g3 Nb6 13.Nc3 Bd7 14.h3 a3 15.b3 Nb4
16.Bb1 Rc8 17.Bd2 Na8 18.Qe2 Qb6 19.Qe3 Nc7 20.g4 hxg4 21.hxg4 Nb5 22.Rc1 Rh3 23.Nxb5 Rxc1+ 24.Bxc1 Bxb5 25.Kg2 Rxf3 26.Kxf3 Nc6 27.Bd3 Nxd4+
28.Kg2 Bc6 29.Qf2 Bc5 30.Be3 Nxb3 31.Bxc5 Nxc5 32.Rb1 d4+ 33.Kg1 Qd8 34.Bb5 Bxb5 35.Rxb5 b6 0-1 |
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Nov-22-11
| | LIFE Master AJ: I am familiar with Reshevsky vs Vaganian, 1976, I remember when I first saw it in print. ("A jaw-dropper.") I would be interested in 10 GM-vs-GM games ... I spent several hours going through books and games, I never found the exact two games that I was looking for. |
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