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 879 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: Argh. <Switch> swoops for a second time. After 12 hours or so, it was a simple Cook. Well, I was never going to check Tal's games... though there were some almost plausible anagrams... Dec-10-13    Annie K.: Bloody Americentrist Klu. :p Hon, I think we should hold the Nukluar negotiations over at Switch's place this year? He certainly deserves it, in one sense or another... ;) Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: Americentrist, yep. I was on the right track with #2, but 'Dimaggio' stumped me for long enough for Switch to swoop. And I spent too long playing with anagrams on #1, instead of thinking laterally. Two to Switch. I never had a chance with #3, however. Only 61 to go. I'll sleep when I'm dead. Saturday, by current estimates. ;) Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: ... and even though I was ready and waiting when #1 finally showed up, I'm glad it was a tough one. Got me in the right frame of mind. Though I expected an easy starter, like other years. I'm not likely to figure in any Klu that is a real race -- my laptop is too slow and my web connection too shaky. So my best chance is a reasonably tough one... I hope. Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: And Switch pulls ahead of MAJ in the all-time Klu stakes. I think I'm still in 3rd place, far behind. Dec-10-13    Annie K.: Heheh... well, maybe a little napping now and then... just to give others a fair chance? ;) Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: <A> Does *Switch* sleep? Is <MAJ> ever caught napping? The Nuklu Greats are conscious round the clock ... we must, yawn, try, zzz, to emulate them... Zzzzz. G'nite. Dec-10-13    Annie K.: G'♘. :) Dec-10-13    Domdaniel: And MAJ leaps on #4 ... I was on track, but too slow. So it goes... Dec-10-13    Annie K.: You were not supposed to be up...? ;s Dec-10-13    OhioChessFan: A simple cook, and it took me 30 seconds to find a game by a player named Alt. I still can't believe that wasn't right. Dec-10-13    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: ... Is <MAJ> ever caught napping?> Yes, about 5 hours every day. And in the meetings at work. <OCF> In the morning I looked at all daily puzzles where in the comments user:chessgames.com mentioned "alternate solution" or "second solution", et.c. Was going to work the puzzle composer angle after a nap, I mean workday, but SQ grabbed it while I was napping. I mean working. Dec-11-13    Domdaniel: <MAJ> So you used the old brute-force 3-per-second routine, eh? It takes me at least 5 secs to check a page, and if I go any faster I end up in a bad place... Dec-11-13    Domdaniel: Daaaamn. I got Glucksberg-Najdorf at once, and then my phone rang. Argh. I tried to multitask but was too slow. Dec-11-13    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: Daaaamn. I got Glucksberg-Najdorf at once?> I was out to lunch when it came up. Otherwise it is indeed instantaneous, despite bad grammar in the clue (in Polish, "game" is feminine, so it should've been "Nieśmiertelna", not "Nieśmiertelny"). 5-second page load? Remember to switch the viewer in your preferences to "None (text only)" and it is way faster. Still have to wait for the banners to load, though... Dec-11-13    Annie K.: Hi <MAJ>! :) Everybody turned at least the ads off, I hope? If not, it's high time you did. ;p Go to Chessgames Preferences Page, and go over the <Configure website behavior> list. First thing to do is tick the first line: <Do not display sidebar advertisements>... then go over the rest of the list and choose whatever else will speed up your search. :) Choosing the <Display 100 games per page (instead of 25)> option may or may not be a good idea: there will be less pages to search through, but initial loading time will be higher. And when using MultiLinks, opening more than 40 tabs at once can make your browser freeze up - but up to 40 should be ok, and it's a better performance than opening just 25 at a time, because that's as many as you have on the page. Dec-11-13    Domdaniel: <Annie, MAJ> Thanks for the tip ... ads are disabled, but I'm never going to be a successful sprinter. This dodgy laptop has a touchpad that treats sudden jerky movements as instructions to do sudden jerky things. I should get a mouse. I've been pondering the quickest way to open a known game like Glucksberg-Najdorf. Typing both names into the homepage search seems too slow, and there's a possibility of misspelling Glucksberg. So maybe just go to the Najdorf games page and assume it'll be listed among his top games? Or Google 'Polish immortal', which gives a direct link back to the CG game, and has a built-in error check? That's what I tried to do, while answering the phone at the same time... Dec-11-13    Annie K.: Clever, that. :) Yes, get a mouse ASAP, or a little sooner. ;s Dec-11-13    MostlyAverageJoe: I'd have googled it - the first hit is the game. Yes, a mouse is a must for MultiLinks. I use keyboard shortcut for window closing. I also have Firefox running this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi... for periodic reloading of the contest page; that window sits in the background with only the top of the page showing, so I can work while keeping an eye out for the nuklus. I've been using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi... for a long time now, so no problems with ads... Dec-12-13    Annie K.: <MAJ: <that window sits in the background with only the top of the page showing, so I can work while keeping an eye out for the nuklus.>> It would be even easier to get pages to reload all the time with Opera, but that's my fave browser, and setting it to 'reload every minute' kept making me lose any text typed into posting windows whenever it refreshed... so I've been using Firefox too, in exactly that fashion, a couple of years ago, but I had to reinstall it and lost the add-on. And then I didn't get around to finding it again yet. Thx for link! =) Dec-12-13    MostlyAverageJoe: <Annie K> Watch out for Opera upgrades then; the latest version have lost the auto-reload capability; I noticed it after upgrading to version 16. Disappointing... Dec-12-13    Alien Math: <MostlyAverageJoe> Thank you for the note about Opera upgrade 16 lose auto-reload capability, hope feature are enable for the future, possible to view Opera forums/site for news, Current are testing Lunascape6 browser, have auto-reload capability, unsure if would recommend. Dec-12-13    dakgootje: That add-on merely refreshes the page every so often right? Heh, if there'd be an addon which signals even when you're at a different tab-page - now there'd be something ;) Conversely, I might just get lazy. Dec-12-13    Domdaniel: Bob's your uncle ... nice bit of lateral thinking by <Sastre> ... I was dumbly checking games by people named Bob, and I probably wasn't the only one. I kept thinking that Nigel Short once nicknamed Boris Gelfand 'Bob' ... and a couple of years ago, I solved a clue with a line from a Bob Dylan song. But ... Dec-12-13    Domdaniel: Gyah, more Americentrism ... I was reading some stuff about Telly Savalas saying "All chess players are fags". 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