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 864 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jul-09-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> In the 80s and 90s I wrote several magazine articles about the changing face of vampires. This was long before the Twilight phenomenon, obviously. At the time, the main stories were the novels of Anne Rice (horribly melodramatic, but she succeeded in ditching much of the old Stoker stuff) -- what Pynchon termed 'dusty Dracularity' - no more garlic, crucifixes, etc. Another angle was films like Near Dark and the work of Abel Ferrara -- connecting vampires to tropes of addiction, heroin, plague, and Aids. At the time, I thought that the post-Rice/Ferrara notion of vampires was a rich and potent metaphor for other social developments. But now the Twilight phenom -- vamps as young lurv? Aargh! -- seems to destroy all the metaphoric potential. So it goes. Jul-09-13    Annie K.: <hms> thx. :) <Dom> I can see you'll be back into chess soon. ;) Glad you liked the little Langford gem - that's the only story I had read by him at the time, but it earned him a high place in my favorite writers list straight off. Yeah, 'more stories set in same universe' works for me, I've liked many such not-quite-sequels. And Nova Swing arrived today. Will probably read on this weekend. Btw, the self-containment issue that reminds me of Herbert's Dune series, as I said... and there are some other "flavor" similarities. The Dune sequels are more actual sequels, but the original could do just fine without them. Still, since you like the multiple time strands of Light, I'm going to change my original recommendation that you needn't bother with Dune's sequels. I think you might actually like #3 and #4. Well, 4 mostly, but 3 is a necessary buildup to it (and really not bad in its own right, either). So here's a reading plan for you: reread Dune (1), then read Children of Dune (3), and God Emperor of Dune (4). Skip the rest. #2, Dune Messiah, is bad, it's a case of 'what happens when a writer gets overawed by their own myth', but he recuperated some later, and luckily you can fit the following books into the Dune universe without suffering through that episode. You really may enjoy those two sequels - not multiple times in parallel, but a very well written shift in time scales. :) Jul-09-13    Annie K.: Heh, cross posts. I'll catch up later, I overslept today so now I'm pretending to work harder... Or pretending harder to work, as the case may be. And as you can see. ;) Jul-09-13    Annie K.: <But now the Twilight phenom -- vamps as young lurv? Aargh! -- seems to destroy all the metaphoric potential. So it goes.> And whasshername openly admitting that the differences in "her vampires" are based on the - apparently admirable - fact that she had very little knowledge of the details of the pre-existing vampire lore, and no interest in correcting this situation when she could just go ahead and spew her mush instead. :s The most profound lesson to be learned here, I reckon, is that intentional evil - if and what little of it may exist - will never come anywhere near to causing a small fraction of a percent of the damage that blithe stupidity manages with the greatest ease alla time. Eat your heart out, evil. :\ Oh, and one lesson of the Langford short may just be that practicing BLITs - or BLITZ, as they might say on the netz - could be very good for you. ;) Jul-10-13    Domdaniel: <Eat your heart out, evil.> I do, I do, all the time. -- Dr. Evil Jul-10-13    Domdaniel: Okay, enough already, I concede that the 'Dr Evil' persona is just a callow pose. - Dr. Slightly Unpleasant. Jul-10-13    OhioChessFan: From a London Times crossword: 28A Almost premature openings for mate on dangerous back rank (7) For details, see Raymond Keene Jul-10-13    Domdaniel: <A> -- < why would a supposedly intelligent alien do that, anyway?> Well, nobody said the Shrander/Alien was *omniscient* ... mistakes get made ... sheet happens. Also: if the Shrander (aka Dr Haends) was simply making best estimates ... then ... um, uh, I don't know where to go next. Am I lost? Apparently. Jul-10-13    Domdaniel: <Fire and brimstone, and charred chess sets> ... They'd call such remnants 'ashes' in the real (burnt) world. It's hard to say which ashes/relics should be preserved ... But. Angels of ashes ... Jul-11-13    Domdaniel: My previous post appears to be nonsensical. It was late, OK? That said, I think 'Angels of Ashes' is a song by Scott Walker. I was perhaps thinking of the cricket Ashes -- the test match series between England and Australia, just begun, and named after the ashes of a ritually-burned set of stumps over a century ago. I may have thought that an incinerated chess set and board - something of which I have experience - might offer a way to stage a 'Chess Ashes'. Orr-Knott. Jul-11-13    OhioChessFan: <My previous post appears to be nonsensical. > Is there something wrong with that? Jul-11-13    Annie K.: Heh. I did wonder a bit, but I'm with <Ohio>, all in all. ;) <Well, nobody said the Shrander/Alien was *omniscient* ... mistakes get made ... sheet happens.> True enuff... and after all, in the later strands, s/he/it (happens) *did* seem to have learned to employ somewhat improved appearances, though still maintained a "disturbing" element in most. Jul-11-13    Annie K.: I have mentioned this, also outstanding, short story many times, here and there; definitely worth checking out. :) <James Patrick Kelly - Think Like A Dinosaur> http://worldtracker.org/media/libra... Jul-11-13    Domdaniel: <My previous post appears to be nonsensical. > OK, I admit it ... <all my previous posts appear to be nonsensical ... a huge steaming pile of nonsense ...> Jul-11-13    Annie K.: Nonsense, dear. ;) Jul-14-13    OhioChessFan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/... The Great Gypsy...wonderful working title for my next novel. Jul-14-13    OhioChessFan: [Oh, dear. Let me try again.] <My previous post appears to be nonsensical. > Ummmmm, could you be more specific? Jul-15-13    Domdaniel: <Ohio> -- <Ummmmm, could you be more specific? > Ummmm, not really. 'Previous' clearly refers to the preceding post, so that isn't really an issue. Which leaves, I guess, the precise type of nonsense exemplified. I can't help there, I'm afraid: nonsense is nonsense, and mine is equally nonsensical. Although ... perhaps ... my ability to detect nonsense has deteriorated due to the current heatwave. I don't like hot westher: my brain, such as it is, seems to go into meltdown. Jul-15-13    Annie K.: <equally nonsensical> Nah... some are more equal than others, as has been said. Personally, I have already melted a while back - it's a bit hotter here than there, yanno. ;) I could turn on the ac, but the cats don't like the noise, so I rarely do. Regards, The Wicked Witch of the West Jul-15-13    Domdaniel: <Wicked Witch> *Hotter*? No wonder you've melted. I believe that in Oz (and Death Valley, USA) temperatures can hit 50 degrees C., but us Yurpeans aren't built for such extremes. 30 degrees is quite enough. And Death Valley is well named. I read part of a SF story -- maybe by Charles Schloss? -- which featured quasi-intelligent pet cats petulantly (sic!) disputing things with their 'owners'. Schloss (sp?) is an inveterate blogger who produces a ridiculous amount of words on various topics ... worth checking out, though. Jul-15-13    Annie K.: Schloss? Dat's German for Lake, innit? I could use one about now. Heh. K, I may look him up sometime... :) It's about 30 degrees Celsius or so here this week, and rarely gets above 40, which is also quite enough anyhoo. :s Read that Think Like a Dinosaur (it's not akshly about dinosaurs) short story I linked here the other day? Might take your mind off the temp for a bit. It *could* be described as 'chilling', even. ;) TWWotW, aka 'Puddles' Jul-15-13    Annie K.: ah, no, Schloss is Castle - I knew it was one or the other. :s Jul-15-13    tisnjh: so, <domdaniel> , you not only read my posts but commented on them too - at cg.com? hahaha well, happy to be able to entertain you :) hahaha so long , mate :) Jul-15-13    Domdaniel: <A> It's been 30+ here for several days, which last happened in 1995 (or so I'm told -- I missed it). Incredibly, the public/media discourse is "isn't this wonderful?" but if you talk to people individually most of 'em are suffering. And quite right too. Jul-15-13    Annie K.: Hmm. I have a World Weather app here on my phone, which claims Cork is around 25 this week. It may not be very reliable, then. Your media has a funny way with adjectives. :s Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 864 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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