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 876 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: Parched wetness is a consequence of green ideas sleeping furiously. Happens all the time, especially before breakfast. Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> Not wilful? Uh, it takes serious dedication to be unaware of both the most influential rock band ever and the longest-running TV animation. Especially when, in the considered opinion of cultural critics such as, well, *moi*, both are brilliant. And not mere popcult trivia, yanno? I mean, I know about stuff eighty orders of magnitude more obscure. But then I'm an Omni-whatsit. Oct-29-13    Annie K.: <Dom> major heh - I was just thinking about synaesthesia on the way home myself. And here's why - ... the above example, is actually a very (f)oxy moron, not just 'inconceivable' - but other combinations can be inconceivable just by being "mu" (a'la Pirsig) - unrelated concepts, unless of course one has synaesthesia. And the fact that sufferers of synaesthesia *can* relate those concepts, doesn't mean that the failure is with the rest of us... synaesthesia is not some esoteric wisdom, it's just a sensory brain miswiring based on subjective experience. <Not wilful?> No, Yerroner. :p It's not that hard without a TV or radio on hand, yanno. I do have a radio somewhere, but I haven't seen any point in locating it near a power outlet in the last 3 places I lived in, as I know from prior experience that I'd never get around to sitting down and spending time listening to it anyway. Same reason I didn't accept a TV relatives offered me, or considered actually buying one... but it's not a matter of principle; I just don't miss them, and have enough things I know I will always prefer to do, given a choice. Just not enough time to get around to everything I'd like to, as is... this happens all the time, both before and after breakfast. ;) Regards, Ms. Omnivore Oct-30-13    Domdaniel: The best book on synaesthesia is still Luria's 'The Mind of a Mnemonist'. Oct-30-13    Domdaniel: <A> That, ackshly, requires an essay in reply ... covering, inter alia, the significance of Reed and Simpsons. And how this does not rilly have much to do with either radio or TV ... I mean, I saw Lou play live in 1979, and I've never much heard him on the radio. And one also has to discount the role of printed material, zines and papers, over the years ... I find it hard to see how anyone could remain unaware of such prominent figures. An essay may follow. Oct-30-13    Annie K.: Heh, ok. But I read books, not zines, or papers... :) Oct-30-13    Domdaniel: Eh. You've *never* read zines or papers? That's a big, uh, hole... Oct-30-13    Domdaniel: ... especially now that zines and papers are all on the interweb... Oct-30-13    Annie K.: I used to read a Hungarian magazine my mother subscribed to a long time ago, don't remember the title (not that it would mean anything to you anyway...); then she switched to the Time Magazine for many years and I also read some of it, on and off. Had occasional encounters with local rags. Haven't really opened a paper in years. So sue me. :p Oct-30-13    Domdaniel: <So sue me> That might be difficult, Sue. Before the fire, I had copies of Time Magazine going back to about 1950 -- covers including Vladimir Nabokov and Lee Harvey Oswald ... if you've heard of them? And then I had about 8000 other magazines: New Worlds, New Scientist, The Face, Zilch, Punch, Alice, Vortex, Blitz, Private Eye, Rant, Id, and many more that I've forgotten. Zines are a great source of data and, um, cultural background and backwash ... as can be confirmed by writers such as Pynchon and Wm Gibson. Oct-30-13    TheFocus: Sorry to hear that you lost such treasures in a fire. It would devastate me to lose my chess collection. Oct-31-13    Domdaniel: <TheFocus> Thanks. One gets used to it. Unfortunately, the day before the fire, I'd gathered all my chess stuff together for sorting -- a few hundred books, scoresheets going back to the 1970s, a couple of computers containing the same games, a few boards and sets ... and all were reduced to ashes. Oh well ... I can start again, I guess ... Nov-01-13    Domdaniel: I finally got around to buying a copy of Pynchon's latest novel, *Bleeding Edge*. So I may be otherwise occupied for a day or three. Hmm ... this, I think, is the third Pynchon novel in the time I've been here on CG, after Against the Day and Inherent Vice. Earlier, I'd waited 17 years during the gap between Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland ... he seems to be getting more prolific with age. Nov-01-13    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> thanks for those notes on the French over at <Karpova> house. Yes, I am dead serious about taking up the French. In 2008 I played only 1.c4 for almost an entire year. I have now started playing only 1.e4 e6, and I will play it every single time for many, many months. Mrs. Ahab Nov-02-13    Domdaniel: <Mrs Ahab> Innaresting ... in my last club match I lost horribly with a French, going down in 20 moves. My worst French for years, and a very rare case where I failed to emerge from the opening with advantage. Stupid of me, I guess. However, earlier the same day, somebody played 1.c4 against me, and I crushed him. I tend to vary my defences against the English, having played it so much as White - so sometimes I play the Symmetrical 1...c5, sometimes the Grunfeld-English 1...Nf6 and 2...d5, and sometimes the Dutch system with ...f5. This time I tried ...e5 and ...c6, which worked out well. Nov-05-13    waustad: After reading your comment about nationality in the ginger v us I was reminded of a pal of mine, who has a license plate that reads: kernow. Actually I think his grandfather is the one who compiled an English Cornish dictionary. There are even more Celts around. Nov-06-13    Memethecat: Aye up Dom, how's things. Just made a rare visit to the home page and was surprised to see a WC with Anand & Carlsen about to start. I thought these events were every 2yrs and it was only last year that Anand won, or have I lost a year, it's happened before. News of the match seems to be limited to Carlsen complaining about the venue, well wishers and prize money oohs n ahhs. Felt a sigh of regret that I hadn't kept more abreast of things, if I'd known 6wks ago that it was happening in Tamil Nad it might've given me a much needed kick up the arse and I could be there looking at humanity, instead of here looking at screens and rain. Another UK winter might be the proverbial straw. Nov-07-13    Domdaniel: <waustad> True, the Celts get around. They even used to live in places like Switzerland and Turkey (the Galatians of biblical fame). In more recent times, I remember attending something called the Celtic Film Festival, which mostly showed documentaries in Irish, Welsh, and, yes, Cornish. Nov-07-13    Domdaniel: <meme> Hi there ... so you lost a year? I've lost dozens of the things. It's easily done ... But have you seen how many pages of so-called kibitzing there are on the Anand-Carlsen match, even before it starts? I'm slightly baffled by how many variations on "X is going to win" people can find... Nov-07-13    Domdaniel: ... and the funny thing is, X probably *will* win ... unless Y does. Nov-08-13    Memethecat: Was it really 2yrs ago that Anand played Gefland? I'd of swore it was last year, I've really got to start paying attention. There was 80+ pages of kibitzing when I looked, the consensus seemed to be in favour of y, the eternal question, though there was a lot of x men too. Can't blame the excitement, it's the final many (me included) wanted to see last time, just found a Wikipedia entry & I didn't lose a year, last WC was 2012, does that mean they're every year now?. Learnt a touch of Latin yesterday (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?), it was in relation to the then upcoming televised "interview" of the 3 heads, exciting if you like that sort of thing, Lobban, chief of GCHQ, appeared to be the top sociopath, a scary character indeed. He claims to look through our online haystacks without seeing our personal stuff, only the baddies come into view, somehow. Plus there's the definition of baddie. Nov-08-13    Annie K.: <G> I'm pretty sure Carlsen will win, unless Anand does! PS - don't call me Sue. Regards, Shirley ;) Nov-08-13    Domdaniel: <meme> Oy, Latin. I managed to misquote that line as "Quis custodiet ipsos custodiens?" in a recent post. Your version is correct, of course. Hmm. Is that recursive? If we ask "Who will guard the guardians?" can't we also ask "Who will guard the guardians of the guardians?" ... and so on. Deep. Maybe even benthic... Nov-08-13    Domdaniel: <Annie Sue> -- May I refer you to the Johnny Cash song, "A Goy Named Sue" ...? Or something like that anyhoo. Nov-08-13    boz: The question is, "who will clean up after the custodians?" Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 876 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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