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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Frogspawn: Levity's Rainbow

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 860 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-01-13    Annie K.: You're welcome. :) I'm pretty sure your theory is correct, though. Just be advised that I tend to register the word 'incorrigible' as a challenge. ;p Jun-01-13    Domdaniel: <A> Meaning you have an urge to *correct*? Be my guest ... Jun-01-13    Annie K.: Okayyy... :) Jun-01-13    Domdaniel: OMG. What have I let myself in for? Jun-01-13    Annie K.: I expect we'll find out, in time... ;) Jun-01-13    OhioChessFan: Why, in my mind's ear and Frogspawn's eye, do I hear and see SnagglePuss saying "Incorrigible, even."? Jun-01-13    Domdaniel: "in my mind's ear, and Frogspawn's eye, What do I fear, And why do I let more time go by?" Jun-01-13    Annie K.: <Ohio> possibly because you know such a character? :) <G> heh Jun-01-13    OhioChessFan: I think SnaggleEye could be a pretty cool character. "What a bizarre collection of people around here. Outre', even." Jun-02-13    Domdaniel: < "What a bizarre collection of people around here.> No, no ,no. The people everywhere else are bizarre. The people here are poifectly normal. Jun-02-13    OhioChessFan: Perpendicular, even. Jun-03-13    Domdaniel: Perpendicular? I can Remember Karpov vs Korchnoi in 1974, an incredible 39 years ago, and a quote to the effect that "Karpov thinks while Korchnoi perpends" -- meaning 'to consider carefully', not to be at right angles to oneself. At the time, I admit, I thought it had something to do with walking to and fro. Let's perpend. Jun-03-13    Domdaniel: <hms> Thanks for the pointer to Frogspawn past ... there's something about old signposts ... Jun-03-13    hms123: <Dom> All in a day's work. Now that I have retired, it might even have been my day's work. Jun-03-13    OhioChessFan: Welcome to the land of the Bizarre and Perpenormal. Jun-03-13    Tiggler: <Domdaniel: <Tiggler> /snip/ There is, perhaps, a mean to which we all regress in the end ...> This terminology is part of our daily speech now, but I think was it first introduced by Francis Galton (about 1880), who was the first to apply statistics in what we now call the social sciences. He was considering the question of why human (or other animal) attributes show some stable clustering about the mean, instead of just diverging indefinitely. The use of the odd term "regression" for finding best-fit lines also originates from his work. Jun-03-13    Domdaniel: Galton was a true eccentric -- quite an achievement in 19th century England, when eccentricity was almost a norm. Among other things, he used to award 'beauty points' to every woman he met, and carried a device for recording these scores. Jun-04-13    Domdaniel: < "Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!"> Jun-04-13    Tiggler: Nimzovitch's lamentation: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Jun-04-13    dakgootje: < "Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!"> I tend to lose for the sole purpose of being able to claim that exclamation whenever I encounter the Nimzo-Indian. That is, I would if I'd ever encounter it. As it stands I am more often faced with first moves like h3 and h6. Which implies a certain extrapostavantmodernganza which perpetrators would casually remark German is too 19th-century for them - before walking away like nothing happened. As it stands, I don't meet such people either. Jun-07-13    Domdaniel: <dak> -- < a certain extrapostavantmodernganza > Hmmm. Why don't I believe you? Jun-07-13    dakgootje: Beats me. Jun-07-13    Alien Math: Have not find the books yet from any place, read The Host book and thought it was good, appears a simple medical note in the book, are only complaint of Jun-09-13    Domdaniel: "My rag! Cry! Retch..." Heh. Jun-09-13    Domdaniel: One of the books I mentioned was Nova Swing by M.John Harrison, 2nd vol of the Light/ Empty Space trilogy. I havta admit that I haven't actually read this one, tho' I've read its brilliant predecessor, Light, and the successor, Empty Space (2013). I've ordered a copy of Nova Swing thru a bookshop, and it keeps being mysteriously delayed. Last week they called to say it should be there in 24 hrs, then they phoned back to say it hadn't arrived, and did I want a refund? Strange. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 860 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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