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 856 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-11-13    mckmac: < Domdaniel, Jess, Annie, and friends > Well, I have just sold $200 worth of books for $35 and I had to throw in a nice book on antiquesplusasuperhighlyendorsedeffortonhowtound- erstand businessandmakeakilling. I think I made a good deal. Jan-11-13    mckmac: < Dom > I would give my eye teeth to buy you a drink one day , but I digress. OK, let's finish this tedious @#$%. Use the sane fomula to find your birthnumber. Look at yr family and friends. Look for patterns. Make up yr own mind as to what, if anything, they mean. Then learn how to do an internal grid, if you are even mildly interested. Jan-12-13    mckmac: < Domdaniel > I reckon that effort earned me at least 6 songs and I am spending them now!! http://www.youtube.com/results?sear... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPcj... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oY... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzcd... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyQP... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgPr... Cheers mate. Jan-12-13    mckmac: < Domdaniel > Something 'important' I left out... Before you add, reduce, then add up the individual name numbers, be sure to add the total name number. A good example is our own Good Queen Jess. < jessicafischerqueen > adds up to 88 and that number does not reduce, because it is a Master Number. But if we write her name thus: Jessica Fischer Queen, we find that J=21=3, F=41=5, and Q=26=8. 3+5+8=16=7. A long way from 88. Jan-12-13    Domdaniel: <Matt> My opinion is: the tarot is innaresting due to its informatically dense history, but numerology is almost always nonsense. Jan-12-13    Domdaniel: Vibration can be represented by wave equations, using sines and cosines and such. I quite like damped oscillation m'self. <I don't believe in 'numerology' or anything else like that for that matter. I go to Church every Sunday and the good Reverend Clay may be broadminded but he's not *that* broadminded> What does 'like that' mean? In what sense is one belief 'like' another? Isn't it easier and more consistent not to believe at all? Is the Reverend Clay a golem, or the guy who changed his name to Ali? Jan-12-13    mckmac: < Dom > "What does 'like that' mean? In what sense is one belief 'like' another? Isn't it easier and more consistent not to believe at all?" Yep, that's a fair cop, Guv. I actually think that it is *only* correct to believe in nothing at all...apart from the indisputable fact that The Mighty All Blacks are, and always will be, the best rugby team on the planet. Ooh, and I believe in the power of love, of course. Like Luther Vandross.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlLs... Jan-14-13    Abdel Irada: <Domdaniel>: You earned my vote for "Best Profile" as soon as I saw this: <I'll say it again, though I can't recall saying it before: < Empathy is essential to any kind of intelligence worth having.>>. This is very much in accord with the essence of moral intelligence as I discuss it on my site. (Perhaps we should talk more about this issue.) Jan-15-13    perfidious: < Domdaniel: ....In the 1970s, Dublin hosted a strong event at Easter: I first played in '76, when Tony Miles won the masters/open, and I came 2nd in the 'minor' with 6.5/7....> How, pray tell, did you pull off this feat? On tiebreak, or was the congress so large that you never got to face the only player with a clean score? Jan-16-13    Annie K.: Boo! Ahem. I just felt I had to say that. Tata - Tata Steel (2013), to be exact - for now! :) Jan-17-13    Domdaniel: <perfidious> -- < the congress so large that you never got to face the only player with a clean score?> The latter. 1970s entry numbers (about 300 in the minor section alone, I think) - plus relatively few draws. I drew a game in round 2 or 3, and was then always half a point behind a group on full points. Which shrank by half in each round, but still had one player in it after seven rounds. And me close behind, but we never played. Jan-17-13    Domdaniel: <A> Boo, beau, belle, bella ... donna. I thought that Anand's beguiling win against Aronian should have been called 'Tata for Now' in the GOTD slot. Or <Wijk aan Zee for miles and miles ...> ... On a clear day Wijk aan Zee forever. Argh. Wijk ontinue? Jan-17-13    Annie K.: Wijk in, Wijk out. :) Pretty good... almost back to usual standards - now just stick around and keep it up! ;) Jan-17-13    Domdaniel: Blessed is the earth, for it shall inherit the meek. Jan-17-13    Annie K.: Meek or not... :p How about switching to goddess worship for a change? Staying in the family, of course. I have recently invented the eternal goddess, little sister to Nuklu, name of Nubet. She who also hands out free cg memberships to her loyal servants - rather generously, too. :) Jan-17-13    Domdaniel: Festin Nu is La cousine? I don't gamble (unless you count playing the Dutch) and I don't fight (ditto). Gotta move house in RL (increasingly irreal) again. The absence of dependents, cats, books, possessions, etc, makes this an easier exercise than at any time I can remember. Jan-17-13    Annie K.: <I don't gamble (unless you count playing the Dutch) and I don't fight (ditto).> You also don't stick by any principles much, so this shouldn't be a problem. ;p Well then, now is an ideal time for moving. But then consider getting a cat, k? Possibly not a kitten but an adult - from a shelter wd be gud. Might suit you better, and those are also the hardest to place (families that decide to get a pet because the kids have been begging for one, usually have a cute little kitten in mind), and therefore in the most danger. Worst part of moving IME is informing what seems like half the world of new address, and setting up net access again. :s Jan-17-13    perfidious: <Dom> After that post, an event from my own chequered past occurred to me: the 1981 Vermont championship. Three of us won all four games to share first place in the open section, and there was not a single draw played that weekend. Jan-18-13    mckmac: < Blessed is mirth, for it makes all men weak > Jan-18-13    Domdaniel: <perf> Ah, yes, tie-breaks. I remember finishing one championship tournament in a 3-way tie on 5/6, where I'd beaten the other two players on that score, but had conceded two draws to others. I thought this victory in the mini-tournament was enough to give me the title, but one of the others got it on Sonneborn-Berger. Maybe I used to accept too many draws in the 1980s -- the top players would play everything out to the end. Jan-18-13    Domdaniel: Thanks, btw, to those who voted for me in the Caissars. I don't think this was ever going to be my year, as I've been absent so much. I'll aim for a comeback in '13 ... Jan-20-13    Annie K.: That aim needs some work. :) BTW, if/when you move, plz send me the new address, for the usual nefarious purposes. Thx. ;) Jan-21-13    frogbert: hi, dom! i had the pleasure of having some drinks with a fellow countryman of yours last weekend, following rounds 4-6 of the norwegian national chess league. more specifically i enjoyed the company of im (soon gm?) sam collins - a very pleasant and handsome young man (at least that's what my female friend also present thought :o) when i revealed that i was the lucky owner of his c3 sicilian book, he apologized. ;o) Jan-21-13    frogbert: oh, i nearly forgot: sam plays for the astutely named team "black knights and white widows". who said that chess clubs need to have boring names? Jan-21-13    Domdaniel: <frogbert> Yes, Sam is a good player and an excellent writer: until recently I had his book on the Advance French. At the risk of showing my age, I'll add that I knew his father - a film producer - in the 1980s. Did you think he looked a little like Peter Leko? 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