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| Feb-15-12 | | dakgootje: What's all this chessstuff doing here? |
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| Feb-15-12 | | frogbert: dak, i think chess stuff is allowed - after a brief recap of the frogspawn posting guidelines - it's simply not required. at any rate, i trust that dom will take a firm stand if anyone posts something with a too distinct chess quality to it. |
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| Feb-15-12 | | dakgootje: You are probably right. After all - if chessstuff was not allowed, the lawmaker would be breaking his own laws. Although.. perhaps the maker is the sole exception - similar to how the kingmaker is the only person who can't become king. On other other hand - if you can't be that what you are the maker of, does that mean selfreplication is theoretically impossible? Sell that to cells! |
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| Feb-15-12 | | frogbert: <the lawmaker would be breaking his own laws> i think we've got a lot of precedence for that in recent chess history. but maybe dom draws the line at chess <politics>. :o) |
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Feb-15-12
 | | Domdaniel: Chess has *politics*? Whatever next? Is this a red state or a blue state? And when did Americans invert the traditional meaning of red (ie, communist) and blue (conservative)? Musta been after they shot the last commie.
So, anyhoo. Is it those pawns agitating for the vote again? Off with their heads. I've been a kingmaker and I've been a king, and kingmaker is better. You get to wear your own clothes. Though in certain kingdoms (ha) *all* clothing, even the invisible kind, is the property of the king. |
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| Feb-15-12 | | mworld: In commie communes invisible clothes are in abundance and shared by all. |
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| Feb-15-12 | | frogbert: <invisible clothes are in abundance and shared by all> sharing is great, but what if you one day want your favourite jumper - how can you tell who's wearing it at the moment? |
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Feb-15-12
| | Domdaniel: Favourites are a bourgeois affectation and lead to Capitalist Roadsterism. That reminds me ... I knew a Maoist knitting circle once. Well, they were Maoists, and into knitting. Rumour had it that they passed on secret messages in the Maoist knitting version of Morse code, tip-tap-clunking away with those big needles. It's just a yarn. |
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| Feb-15-12 | | frogbert: ok, screw favourites then. but what if you feel a bit cold and are searching for some long underwear? honestly, i think this idea of invisible clothes sounds like another questionable invention. possibly cheap in production but not very practical. |
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| Feb-16-12 | | mworld: <sharing is great, but what if you one day want your favourite jumper - how can you tell who's wearing it at the moment?
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Well if you've managed to stay single, then its whoever you want to be wearing it =] |
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Feb-16-12
| | Domdaniel: <Well if you've managed to stay single, then its whoever you want to be wearing it =]> Heh. The inverse of this -- or possibly not, as there is allegedly a correlation between the single state and 'unusual' body odours -- is that you can 'mark' clothing by impregnating it with your own special molecules. If your actual body doesn't produce enough of these, cigarette smoke (essence of) will often do the trick. |
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Feb-16-12
| | Domdaniel: <Xoloitzcuintli> OK, OK, so it's either a kind of dog or a Tijuana soccer club... What was my guess? The Aztec god of small hills? Close enough. cf 'The Kop'. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | frogbert: i just finished 'inherent vice'. anyone with an opinion on how accurately it describes california (and the us) at the time the novel's story takes place? |
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Feb-17-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> I think it probably describes Pynchon's memories well, though few people outside his immediate circle know much about the actual content of those memories. He did seemingly live in the greater LA area at the time - and wrote an article about the Watts riots (or 'insurrection') of 1966 - in between stints in New York, Mexico, Seattle, San Francisco, and various trips to Europe. An acquaintance of mine once met him at a party in Germany. Accuracy? Not really a realist writer, is TP, thought Inherent Vice is probably as close as he comes. But there's also satire and some playful tweaking of genre convention. |
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| Feb-18-12 | | waustad: <secret messages in the Maoist knitting version of Morse code, tip-tap-clunking away with those big needles> Sounds like Madame Defarge, if I recall the name correctly. |
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| Feb-19-12 | | frogbert: you need to get your fide rating soon, dom! i noticed that your federation (i think) was among those who threatened to stop fide rating *any* events if recent propals for heavily increasing fide fees went through. or you could use it as an excuse to go abroad to play chess, of course. |
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Feb-20-12
| | Domdaniel: <frog> All I have to do for a FIDE rating - last time I checked - is to play 20 rated games against rated opponents within a 2-year period. I was close to it before, but the games lapsed. It's easier now because I'm playing in a rated league. In which I started by beating a player with a FIDE rating of 2130, then lost to one with an Irish rating in the 1400s. I do hope the latter won't count. But I've only played four rated opponents, so I have some catching up to do. Abroad? Nah. Been there. Though I'll probably get to Denmark this year sometime. |
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Feb-20-12
| | Domdaniel: Meanwhile, I just completed one of those crosswords where the answers are words like: jipyapa, weamb, oxyntic, proo, cataclasis, sangaree, and ixia. All are in Chambers dictionary. You just work out the answer then check to see if it exists. Those were easy. I almost got caught out on 'Greek' and 'aback'. Best clue was: Doorbell disturbed Paddy's kip abroad. It helps to know that a 'kip' is a sleep or nap in Anglo-English, but a house of ill repute in Hiberno-English. And that doorbell is an anagram of bordello. There's also "this place is a kip" ... which, in a certain sense, is true. |
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Feb-20-12
| | Domdaniel: You learn something new every day ... Short's last round opening in Ratbunny caused me to look up 2.b3 in the French and Sicilian, which I previously tended to think of as a variant of the Nimzo-Larsen. As Black, I've usually played 1.e4 e6 2.b3 b6: anything *you* can do. As White, I once beat a 2250 player with the 'Spike': 1.b3 g6 2.Bb2 Nf6 3.g4 -- not unlike Short's game, actually, except I mated the black King when it started running. After much chaos. Now I learn that 1.e4 e6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 dxe4 is a well-known gambit, usually named after Reti - both he and Spielmann played it in the 1920s.
click for larger view Dr Schiller calls it the Papa-Ticulat Gambit, which sounds vaguely voudounesque. But it transpires that Papa and Ticulat are players of more recent vintage than Reti. Maybe the Doc felt that Reti had enough stuff named after him, not to mention all those misplaced Catalans, King's Indian Attacks, etc, that just happen to start 1.Nf3 d5. I don't much like black's pawn structure in the Reti-Papa, though. Sometimes ...dxe4 is fine, like in the Winawer after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Ne2 (or 4.a3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 dxe4). In both cases White has taken some structural damage in return, but the Reti-Papa seems to give him very strong bishops. Think I'll stick with 2...b6. Or maybe 2...a6. |
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Feb-20-12
| | Domdaniel: <Waustad> - <Sounds like Madame Defarge, if I recall the name correctly.> You do, and it does. Innaresting.
Maybe there are secret knitting patterns that connect revolutionaries across time. Like woolly ley-lines in the 4th dimension. Plus, those radical caps, toques, bonnets, shawls, mittens, scarves, kefiyahs (usw) have to come from *somewhere*. |
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| Feb-20-12 | | frogbert: <All I have to do for a FIDE rating - last time I checked - is to play 20 rated games against rated opponents within a 2-year period.> it's a long time since you checked, it seems. |
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Feb-20-12
| | Domdaniel: Yes and no. |
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| Feb-20-12 | | frogbert: the req is currently 9 games and has been for at least a decade. :o) |
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| Feb-21-12 | | dakgootje: <Best clue was: Doorbell disturbed Paddy's kip abroad. It helps to know that a 'kip' is a sleep or nap in Anglo-English, but a house of ill repute in Hiberno-English.> Also, kip is chicken in Dutch. So it could've been some rice/chicken recipe, which was wasted due to visitors arriving. |
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Feb-22-12
| | Domdaniel: < the req is currently 9 games and has been for at least a decade. :o)> Coulda sworn I saw a 20-game requirement on FIDE's website within the past year. Along with a ruling which shortened the expiry date of earlier games, so my (nine) games from the 2007 Irish championships became irrelevant some time ago. Nine games makes sense, however: 9-round tournaments are held to allow players to get FIDE ratings - I may enter one in Dublin in April. In the past, controllers would sometimes jiggle the draw in later rounds to give unrated players enough rated opponents to qualify. There was also a requirement that opponents should come from more than one country or federation, to prevent local inflationary schemes such as the sudden rise of super-GMs in Myanmar/Burma ten years ago. They turned out to be not quite so super when they played other GMs: I recall Khalifman beat some of them. Maybe this explains the number of French, Polish and German players in the Cork/Limerick league. Or maybe they just like the Irish south-west, with its ancient oil refineries and brand new castles. |
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