Domdaniel Member since Aug-11-06 · Last seen Jan-10-19 no bio

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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 839 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-15-12    twinlark: Guv: Viktor Bologan May-15-12    Domdaniel: <twinlark> Impressive. Bologan has a more extensive bibliography than I'd thought. His given name, however, puzzles me ... is 'Viorel' a Moldovan version of 'Viktor', or a nickname, or what? He's normally called Viktor in any kind of official context. I can think of only one book (Jaan Ehlvest's idiosyncratic autobiography) which referred to him as Viorel. That said, the Moldovan section of my library is not extensive. Part of the roof of Domdaniel Towers collapsed, ruining everything from Mobsters to Mommy Dearest. May-15-12    Shams: Both Victor and Viorel are Bologan's given names-- you'll just have to trust me, as I can't find the interview where he told the story. May-15-12    twinlark: I must say I prefer Viorel. Great name. May-16-12    Memethecat: Well Bologan is climbing the ranks like a virus & he's been Victor-ious a lot recently, so maybe he needs both names for a full description. I'd like a look at his book on the Rossolimo Sicilian. <Dom> I was sniffin around, looking for words related to evil & found this chap: agathokakological. Its another one of those words I'll never be able to subtly slip into a conversation, the only use in knowing it (apart from the joy in learning knew words) is never having to stop reading to look it up & be able to 'keep up' if its used. There's a quote, (maybe from Pepys?), it goes on in a accusatory manner, the words used are harmless but only educated people would know that. I cant remember it, but its something like: "the man is not only impecunious, he's also a pedagogue & has practised nepotism with his own sister". Its very funny, but also condescending towards people that couldn't afford the time or expense needed for an education, agathokakological even. May-16-12    Domdaniel: <meme> Hmmm ... *agathokakological* ... I think 'kakology' is knowledge of waste material, so mebbe agathokakological is 'pertaining to knowledge of bodily fluids found in the writings of Agatha Christie'? ... and your specialist subject is ... Miss Marple's intestinal fortitude. An *agathodaimon* is a kind of benevolent guardian spirit, a cross between a guardian angel and a witch's familiar. If they were able to breed, which is doubtful. My favorite word 'related to evil' is 'Apotropaic', or 'intended to turn aside evil'. As in those fingers-crossed apotropaic gestures people tend to make. I first saw the word in an article written by John Clute for New Worlds science fiction magazine, called something like <Apotropaic Narcosis, or, I'm Going to Read the Damned Thing, Ha Ha>. I can relate to Apotropaic Narcosis. Falling asleep at random is a good way of fending off evil, as long as it isn't *too* evil. May-16-12    hms123: <Dom> <apotropaic> is your favorite word, or at least one of your favorite obscure words. You have used it on 15 different occasions dating back to St. Valentine's Day in 2007. Search Kibitzing May-16-12    Domdaniel: <hms> Yes, I was just pondering that very possibility. Not that I use 'apotropaic' *very* often, of course, but certain situations ("words relating to evil") seem to demand it. What's needed is a more specific 'search kibitzing' function, so that more recent arrivals can locate stuff that must be in the Frogspawn archive ... <Search Frogspawn for words relating to evil> should do it, if one had a spare AI which spoke English, Greek, Latin, Russian and French ... at least. May-16-12    Domdaniel: There's also *taghairm*, of course, while we're on the topic of favorite words. That's probably had even more outings, as <mack> likes it as well. As, apparently, does Jon Speelman. Taghairm, as everyone knows by now, is an ancient Scottish form of divination, performed under a waterfall while wrapped in a bullock's hide. If that doesn't get the mystic juices flowing, nothing will. "Och dear, whaur's ma bullock's hide?" May-16-12    hms123: <Dom> I have learned both words from you...among many others. May-16-12    hms123: <Dom> For the record, <Taighairm> was used 21 times by you alone. Search Kibitzing and about 40 times overall Search Kibitzing including some by <mack> and <Ray Keene>. May-17-12    Domdaniel: <hms> -- <For the record, <Taighairm> was used 21 times by you alone.> I've used 71 words, many of them different. May-17-12    hms123: <Dom> My limit is <seven plus or minus two>. May-18-12    Domdaniel: <hms> I actually have a copy of Miller's original article somewhere. On paper, strange as that may seem. At least it was paper last time I checked ... it may be papyrus by now. May-18-12    frogbert: what? no congratulations for yesterday? oh well, i guess i'm to blame for lack of pr. :o) May-18-12    hms123: <Dom> I thought you would get the reference pretty quickly. May-18-12    frogbert: <My limit is <seven plus or minus two>> friends of mine talk about a limit that is calculated by *dividing* by two and adding seven afterwards... so 7 and 2 keep popping up. i'm born the 7th day of the 7th month in 72 by the way. May-18-12    hms123: <frogbert> Congratulations for yesterday! What was the occasion? Seriously. I looked around. It's not your birthday yet (alternatively, I am very late on that one). May-18-12    frogbert: constitution day in norway - we have a rather *big* party in norway every 17th of may, with parades and bands playing and ten thousands of people out in the streets at the same time. in oslo there's a big parade up our main street, going by the king's castle where he and his family greet all the people and school children walking by, and the size of the parade makes it take a couple of hours before everyone has walked by. you can probably find some footage on youtube; the norwegian tv channels have lots of coverage of it (every year), and i can replay those programs easily, but i'm not sure they're available from abroad. but of course i was essentially joking about "missing" congratulations from you lot. :o) May-19-12    frogbert: here's some coverage from national television covering last year's celebration (all in norwegian, i'm afraid): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzg5... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fUO... here's an amateur clip too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0RT... May-19-12    frogbert: and for those who like the stuff that the norwegian royal guard (hmkg) does, here's a decent start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDts... (these guys are all conscripts and regular soldiers, so the they have to start afresh each year.) May-19-12    Domdaniel: I'm thinking of imposing a ban on royalty. It may, admittedly, make chess problematic ... "Who elected you King? Some watery tart in a lake?" .. as the anarcho-syndicalist peasant said to Arfur, King of the Britons. May-19-12    Annie K.: Arf, Arf. Sorry, some puns are just irresistible. :p Regards, Spot May-19-12    hms123: <Annie> <some puns are just irresistible.> Spot on. May-20-12    Domdaniel: There is high magic in low puns, Mr Pynchon sez. And he goes lower than most. A case of "Get Thee to a Tantric Punnery!", I suppose. Not Arf. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 839 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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