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 89 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-22-07    Domdaniel: For full effect you probably have to say it backwards while standing in a pentagram. Possibly a singing pentagram, even. The very last post before this place was shut down was Hitman's "Tin Tin"... aaaargh ... *gets whooshed away by polydimensional vortex* Feb-22-07    jessicafischerqueen: Yes, I saw the fateful <Tin Tin> post. Very ominous... You realize that in French they say "Tan Tan"? ???? <Obelix>: "These Gauls are crazy" Feb-22-07    Domdaniel: My fave Asterix character is an Egyptian who speaks in hieroglyphics. His name, Ptenisnet, looks like a Wimbledom central court diagram. Oops, that's Wimble-DON, obviously. Feb-22-07    jessicafischerqueen: LOL yes <Ptenisnet>, hats off to Anthea and Derek. They managed to make <Asterix> follow the <King's English>, quite a trick, quite a trick... "Up, Camuludunum!!!" Feb-22-07    jessicafischerqueen: I'm afraid <dom> is a very widely used <phoneme>, is it? Or is it a Ptero<dactyl>? I'll have to ask <DanielPi>... In spiritus <Dom>inus sanctus etc. etc. Feb-22-07    jessicafischerqueen: Pour tous le monde: Je parle en francais, <ergo> j'aime France!! et Vive Quebec libre!! Feb-23-07    Domdaniel: <Jess> Ergo? C'est quelque chose ergodique, ca, non? <Donc>, peut-etre? Dom Peyote, cavalier imaginaire. Mais oui, ma reine -- Quebec libre, et Quilty et Queens aussi... vive les queues... Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: G'day, G'day it's snowing here which reminds me of a <snowshoe story>... (kidding, there's two umbrella stories in <Eyal's> house. Yes the site crashed for three hours, but I crashed for six or seven. Just caught the end of Top-Midget game. Midget on top!! Sarry, Bud, we don'l lorn French in the US <I keep saying this line so I should Fess up- it comes from <Sid the Sexist>. Re: my correspondence game. Thanks, thanks... I just realized that my plan (hatched several moves ago) actually requires me to have two moves in succession... That is white plays, white plays, then it's black's turn. I know his d5 had to be wrong somehow... i got a black <isolani> out of it but I feel I should have gotten more... (no feedback please) just whining out loud. (blinks, quaffs Quoffee) Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: More whining: re <the enemy isolani>: I just wish there was a legal move whereby I could just eliminate every piece on the board except the kings and pawns. I'm sure I'd have an easy win then. (thinking of Woody Allen just flinging the enemy queen in the air behind his back in <Casino Royale>) Feb-23-07    Eyal: <I just realized that my plan (hatched several moves ago) actually requires me to have two moves in succession... That is white plays, white plays, then it's black's turn.> Don't lose heart - it happens to the best. I once read Bronstein's explanation of how he blundered that way a whole rook to Botvinnik in their world championship match (in Botvinnik vs Bronstein, 1951) - only he had the Black pieces. (Amazingly enough, he still managed to save the game.) Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: Thanks <Eyal>, and for the game link too. I haven't blundered per se yet-- I'm still fine, but my "pet" plan is now suspect, I think. But i'm going to give the board a good hard look, see what I can come up with. Re: "We had to change the plan" (From movie <Deliverance>): Dylan: <What's the sense of changing horses in midstream>? Me: <Well, Bob, sometimes it's just best to exchange those Knights> Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: (Dramatic music) THE LONG, HARD, WAR!! FEATURING Feb-23-07    Domdaniel: My lips are sealed. Saint Nimzo sez the isolated d-pawn has a 'lust to expand'. Perhaps it sounds more decorous in German. Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: It can expand all it wants. It's not a passed pawn so I'm pronouncing its doom. I'm poring over my board to see if my original plan might work after all. <The Anxiety of the Goalkeeper upon Facing the Isolated D Pawn>, a very fine film by <Wim Wenders>, now available at the University Library or <Egghead Video Shoppe> in your neighborhood. Feb-23-07    Domdaniel: Existentialist Sports/chess movies? <The Loneliness of the Long Distance Springer> and <The Knight of the Hunter> and of course Zola's <J'Adoube!> ... ? And Cronenberg's <Dead Springers>. Feb-23-07    Domdaniel: Speaking of Dylan, there's always the <Rosemary Tactic>: "Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town..." Least, that's what I think he says. Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: LOL <Rosemary> Yep he wrote that while fried on acid, if he can be believed. He also claims he wrote all of <Blonde on Blonde> on acid, and of course <Jimmy Hendrix> claims he wrote the liner notes for that record on acid. I have my doubts, personally. Re: <Visions of Johanna> a brilliant allusion to <Chien Andalou>: "Jewels and binoculars, hang from the head of the mule..." Existential Sports/Chess movies: Seen all the ones you list, but not Zola. Is that a reference to one of his books (I haven't read it if it is), or is there a filmmaker named Zola? Also, I'm unfamiliar with the term <Springer>. What does it mean, so I can "get" the jokes? Plus, just read your interview with Roeg. Brilliant!! I'm drafting a suitably verbose response, will email it to you. Karl Marx London (deceased) Feb-23-07    Eyal: <Are any of us ever really 'out of book', I wonder...?> Or out of the library? The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings... Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: Yikes! Heavens to <Name of the Rose>, Batman! <Barth>: Lost in the Funhouse <Eyal>: Lost in the Library? (while sneaking online periodically)? Feb-23-07    Eyal: <<Barth>: Lost in the Funhouse> Oh God comma I abhor self-consciousness! Feb-23-07    TheSlid: <Sarry, Bud, we don'l lorn French in the US <I keep saying this line so I should Fess up- it comes from <Sid the Sexist>.> Off Viz magazine? What's filth and smut like that doing over there? Thinking of changing to <Slid the Sexist> Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: <TheSlid> good idea! I want to be <Jessie Fartpants>, then. <Eyal> <Re: Barth-annoyance v. self-consciousness> Shirley, there has to be some middle ground between narcissistic solipsism and being a "drugged ant"? And no, I won't stop calling you etc. etc. Feb-23-07    Eyal: <being a "drugged ant"> Reminds me of the words of a certain kibitzer, something along the lines of: You people get too inflated with reality. Reality is just an escape for people who can't face hallucinogens. Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: All cognitive experiences of "reality" could be construed as "hallucinogenic" with or without drugs... That is, to the experiencer, the so-called "hallucinogenic" state has a rather immediate ontology--hence "real" in some concrete sense. As for "correspondence" between "objective reality" and the "experience" of observing that "reality," all I can say is that Husserl is out of his mind when he says that there is no "objective reality" (extreme phenomenology). Which of course contradicts my previous point. Never mind (sigh) Feb-23-07    jessicafischerqueen: Case in point: I have the current position in my Correspondence game etched in my brain, and have discovered many many possible lines arising from moves from here-- including a spectacular sacrifice that I believe, at the moment, to be sound. But my opponent would have to move the way I think he would (follow that line) for the opportunity to arise... and then my judgment of the soundness of the sac could be refuted by something I've overlooked... Am I hallucinating? Is the chess board infinite? Is it a universe? Is Dick Cheney really a Dick? My head's spinning... Confused in Seattle (well, 3 hour's drive away) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 89 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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