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 84 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> - <do I still run the tuck shop ?> But of course. It's now a Health Food Shop, though. Feb-18-07    Open Defence: <Zebra: Hi <Domdaniel>, congratulations and welcome back. I'm glad you got things sorted out> not really ... he just gave the concierge 5 bob... on Monday he will be shut down again when the bosses arrive ;-p Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> just read your missive, and I have to say, long better than <Kurtz>, If I didn't think so I wouldn't send letters to the <Erse>, Bless their readerly storytellingessednessity... That's a bleedin' masterpiece man, still giggling and taking it all in... Informative and hilarious reading. In the "marketplace" they might call it <Infotainment>, but I don't really care what words Philistines coin and pass about like so much overripe cheese. All Hail return of <Grand Vizier> and <Sanjak of Novi Bazaar>, your leagues of admirers have now revealed themselves... Yes, the <crown weighs heavily> but it beats being beaten. Will follow your directions in missive, Cheers Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Yep, that's the basic idea, although it wasn't just the concierge and it took more than 5 bob. There were caretakers to be taken care of, resident deities to be appeased -- good lord, I had no idea how much it cost to sacrifice a goat!! -- and I even had to slip a few quid to the FEN-wallah who puts up the diagrams. But the bribes are paid. We're back in biz, but this time my finger is poised over the 'mute' button ready to zap transgressors. I am a good boy now. Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Grand Piano> There are two more chess games in my house-- I <Kant> make head nor tail of them. If you have time, perhaps a little analysis? <Open> you too? We don't lorn chess in the Excited States.... (panics, waves arms) Feb-18-07    Open Defence: <Dom> its easy to be a good boy... just pull the f key out of the keyboard..... Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <f key> That would make you <Open Deence>? Just saying... Feb-18-07    Open Defence: <jessicaischerqueen> i the shoe its ..... ;-p Feb-18-07    Open Defence: <one tournament in 2006, rating around 1900> aaah then I dont play at all... no serious chess anyway... just a little blitz on FICS and that one lil marathon with <EA> Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> lol if our <mystery man> were interested in "intellectual stimulation" he'd be talking to you, I believe... Feb-18-07    Open Defence: easy on the tipping laddie... you don't want the FEN Wallah's going on strike complaining that the Kibitz Saheebs got twice as much do you ? Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Ah, but what I don't say is that the one before 2006 was in 1989. This qualifies as irregular. Also, it's very confusing when the year and one's rating keep overtaking each other in various directions. The year is ahead just now but I don't think it will stay that way forever. Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> *More* chess in yours? Do I detect a slight aura of behavioral modification therapy here? As in 'bombard her with chess moves, it'll keep her away from Bad Influences?' Sean O'Svengali (retd). Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: (modifies behavior) I still can't analyze a game. And if I use my "engine" it actually further confuses me. (avoids hard work) Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: <i the shoe its > How very cryptic and mysterious. There must be a letter missing. Is it 'N'? <In, then, shone Nits...> Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Are you saying <Nits> to that <not so old> woman? Oh, what sorry times we live in, when men can say <Nits> etc. etc. Mrs. Whip Or. Will Somewheres in the <Danelaw> Feb-18-07    brankat: <Domdaniel> Welcome back. Who would have guessed that a mop and a bucket could perform such a miracle. The place looks spotless. Almost. Since our friend <Jessica> is a student, probably penniless, perhaps You could offer her a part time job in this forum: maintenance and janitorial duties? She'd keep the place spic 'n span! Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: (penniless student begs for work) Are there no workhouses? Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: I think... I think, therefore... I think I will tack, lavieren, change direction unexpectedly... For my next trick I will post a chess game that has not been published for about sixty years... and was played in a prison camp... Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: <Stalag Luft III>? You're not secretly <Paul Brickhill> or <Douglas Bader>, are you? ?? Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: Warning: <engoggled carnivore> awake and potentially lurking... More on this story as it devolves... Feb-18-07    brankat: A Chess game. A TEMPORARY distraction! Yes! Feb-18-07    Domdaniel: *[Begins yarn in pipe-and-slippers Borgesian elderly-bibliophile mode]* Some time ago I chanced upon a copy of Nimzowitsch: Danmarks Skaklaerer, by Bjorn Nielsen, published in Copenhagen in 1946. Raymond Keene alludes to its reputation in his magisterial Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal, though it soon becomes evident that the English grandmaster did not actually possess a copy. I found that the book had been largely forgotten in Denmark, where there are many Nielsens -- indeed, many chess-playing Nielsens, and the exploits of the younger generation have fogged the memory of Bjorn, who died shortly after his book was published. A member of the city's K41 club directed me to "try the internet". I will merely say that I did so. Eventually, a mysterious Finn -- writing in Swedish -- allowed that he possessed a copy and might be persuaded to part with it. There followed long delays. The book was not, after all, for sale. There might be a better copy available, if I followed certain instructions which need not detain us here. Suffice to say that after some misadventures the 'better copy' came into my hands, and it was a thing of beauty. One of its previous owners had re-bound it in a style no longer fashionable, but redolent of Baltic lamp-lit nights in decades now lost irrevocably. As the book was in Danish, and my knowledge of that Scandinavian tongue is largely limited to such phrases as 'tak' and 'opgivet', clarity would not come at once. Then, suddenly, an ancient and yellowed newspaper clipping fell from between the pages. In the terse and admirably languid language of chess notation, it told a remarkable story... *[to be continued]* Feb-18-07    TheSlid: <Dom> Continue on, Bard of the chess-site. Feb-18-07    jessicafischerqueen: (acolytes crowd round the bespectacled Erseman, light pipes, furrow brows, lean forward, enjoying the warmth of his fire, anticipating a yarn about a mysterious bit of paper containing lost wisdom...) (puts on slippers) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 84 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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