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 881 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-15-13    Thanh Phan: Congrats on that clue <Domdaniel>! Looked at the clue and even if we seen your thoughts on it, I doubt we could have found an eponyms, if one didn't bite us first lol Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> Thank you. I don't think that eponyms bite, though one can never be too careful! Dec-15-13    Thanh Phan: I was able to unearth a short story list and find a story that I dimly remembered, Best science fiction short stories http://inventingreality.4t.com/best... Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come by Cynthia Mason (Editor), Charles Ardai (Editor) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show... I ALWAYS DO WHAT TEDDY SAYS by Harry Harrison http://www.deviantart.com/print/222... Dec-15-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <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!".> Pity he never played NN. Dec-15-13    Shams: Nice work, killer. Dec-15-13    Annie K.: <Dom> Official Congratulations on your 'Collect 21 Confidence Points' card! ;) Srsly well done. :) Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: <A> Tx. 'preciate it. Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: "For this one moment I was sharper than anyone else on CG ... even if *you* were asleep ..." Ackshly, the Klu had been up for a few hours when I got to it. And that's quite enough of that. There are further challenges. Dec-15-13    Domdaniel: The next Klu might be some time. So I'll call it a night. It's a ♘. Dec-15-13    Annie K.: ♘, ☆ :) Dec-16-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <SwitchingQuylthulg: Pity he never played NN.> ...or Nebula (Computer) :) Dec-16-13    Domdaniel: <I don't think that eponyms bite, though one can never be too careful!> That reminds me of an old song -- from the 1920s, I think, though Don McLean recorded it in the 1970s... "On the Amazon The prophylactics prowl On the Amazon The hypodermics howl On the Amazon You'll hear a scarab scowl And sting Zodiacs on the wing." Dec-16-13    Domdaniel: <contd.> "All the stalactites And vicious vertebrae Hunt the stalagmites while laryngitis slay All the parasites that come from Paraguay in the spring Snarling equinox among the rocks will seize you And the fahrenheit comes out at night to freeze you Wild duodenum are lurking in the trees And the jungle swarms with green apostrophes Oh, the Amazon is calling me On the Amazon, the pax vobiscum bite On the Amazon, the epiglottis fight On the Amazon, the hemispheres at night all slink where the agnostics drink..." Dec-16-13    Domdaniel: And then there's a vaguely similar couplet I once wrote: "Razor blades cannot defeat you Only wounded fridges eat you" Dec-16-13    Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> That's an excellent SF short story list ... even though *my* SF story 'Entropanto' is not included, for some strange reason. ;) Dec-17-13    OhioChessFan: Well, the song titles clue would have taken me maybe 2 minutes max. Alas, working late cost me that one. Not sure what the chronological order point was. You just had to unscramble the letters of Donahue. Dec-17-13    Domdaniel: <Ohio> I also missed that one, though the same point re Donahue occurred to me when I saw it. Congrats on your credit for the alt-klu. Dec-17-13    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 > I also use the FIDE website to look for names... Dec-17-13    Domdaniel: Sometimes I think I know too much useless stuff, too much distracting data. When one can just *Geurgle* the relevant items. Dec-17-13    Annie K.: One can't Google eponyms if they've never even heard of the term, let alone recognize a bunch of examples off the top of their head. It's that sort of "useless" stuff that will always keep you ahead of the Googlerz, at least now and then. :) Dec-18-13    Domdaniel: <A> Thanks, though I can't live off eponymous victories forever. I admit, however, that knowing stuff has certain other advantages. Dec-18-13    Domdaniel: I'm pleased to see that the BBC is bringing chess back to the radio. In a series of progs due to be broadcast over the new year, my old semi-namesake Dominic Lawson will play a game with, and interview, an interesting selection of players - Hou Yifan, John Healy, Lennox Lewis... Dec-18-13    Domdaniel: *Another* phone call - same caller - cost me a go at #36, the pangram. Ouch. Dec-18-13    Domdaniel: I'd quite like to see a time given on clues -- time for posting, or solution, or both. It would help, when one misses one, to estimate how long before the next Klu. O Nuklu, you torment us! Dec-18-13    dakgootje: You know you shouldn't pick up the phone during Nuklu. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 881 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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