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 880 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-12-13    Annie K.: Kinda makes you wish Savalas told us how he really felt, doesn't it? ;p Dec-12-13    Domdaniel: Or makes you wish you'd watched more Telly ... ? Dec-12-13    Annie K.: <watched more Telly> Now that's going too far... ;s Dec-12-13    MarkFinan: LOL 😄 Nothing surprises me about this place no more. Nothing. Dec-12-13    Shams: <Domdaniel><Nigel Short once nicknamed Boris Gelfand 'Bob'> A nod to Bob Geldof, perhaps? Dec-12-13    Domdaniel: <Shams> That's what I thought too. Though it's hard to imagine Gelfand deciding to name his daughters Fifi Trixibelle and Pixie... Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: OK, I'm simply in awe of the speed with which <Switch> solved #19 ... I had a few fragments, and was gradually getting there ... but ... wow. Dec-14-13    Annie K.: Heh. I saw 'open' and 'darts' at a glance, but didn't feel like stopping the work on audio files I was just doing to look up the rest. How long, I mean, short, did it take <Switch>? :) Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: <A> Maybe a minute? I had the last one, and maybe another. He's fast. Dec-14-13    Annie K.: Aha, impressive indeed. :) Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: I'd never heard of 'pompatus'. I have heard that Steve Miller song, but I thought of other Millers (Arthur etc) in trying to solve the Klu. Dec-14-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: Either googling "Miller nonce word" or checking the Wiki article on nonce words would have helped you :-) Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: <Switch> I'd also have to know that nonce = nonsense. It wasn't my first idea. Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: According to my dictionary: nonce = a sex offender. Which was what first occurred to me, until I figured it was an unlikely Klu component. Which takes us to another meaning of 'nonce': the occasion, moment ... derived from 'for the nones'. Which is apparently the Old English dative case of 'one'. Coulda fooled me. Did, actually. Dec-14-13    Domdaniel: "Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime. But at least after death you're not nauseous." - Woody Allen. Dec-15-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Domdaniel> Nice work on klu #21, congratulations! :) Dec-15-13    dakgootje: Wow! Very nice job on clue #21! Turns out I was thinking in all the wrong directions :) Dec-15-13    hms123: <Dom> 21-gun salute! That was one hard clue. Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: <SQ, dak, hms> Thanks. I was going to give up after posting the eponym hint in the Kib Caff, but I thought better of it. Luckily. 'Aarseth' is far from the most unlikely name I've tried. The name sounds like something one rustic says to another: "Aar, Seth, the baby tugged his first forelock today!". Dec-15-13    MostlyAverageJoe: Wow, impressive. Congratulations! What gave you the idea of looking for eponyms? Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: <MAJ> I just noticed that there were a few in the text, but it took me a while to work out what to do with 'em. I actually knew the first few first names, but A-A-R-S didn't look too promising. Dec-15-13    dakgootje: It could've referred to one of mozarts canons. Dec-15-13    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: ... A-A-R-S didn't look too promising> Actually, it is a bulls-eye - just one possibility, if you search the downloaded database (CG does not list all players in their directory and Player Directory for letter A indeed looks like a dead end). Focusing on eponyms and then first names was utterly brilliant... Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: <MAJ> Thanks. When I found a player named Aarseth -- I actually tried 'Arseth' first, as it seemed more plausible -- I was sure I was onto something. There were 17 games, with the prize about halfway through. As I checked them - slowly, as usual - I was terrified that my hint in the café would allow someone to get there first. But justice was done. Heh. Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: In previous years, I used a Fritz/Chessbase database for partial name searches, as it allows one to look for a name with just the first few letters -- eg, names starting AARS... But I don't have that database loaded on this laptop, so I just use the CG database, where only the entire name works. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 880 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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