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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 919 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-08-15    Domdaniel: I was also experimenting with new openings, which I don't usually do in a rated event. But it seems to have worked. Something else to consider in future... Sep-15-15    thegoodanarchist: <Domdaniel: I played in a rapidplay one-day event last Saturday.... After 5 rounds I had just one loss, to IM Alex Lopez> You must be a master-strength player! Sep-28-15    Domdaniel: <thegoodanarchist> Far from it, I'm afraid. I had a rating of 2000+ some years ago, but now it has sunk to the 1800s. Nov-02-15    Domdaniel: Avatar Area Nov-03-15    moronovich: <Domdaniel: Avatar Area> Many fine contributors are now gone. Not much trafic these days... Nov-03-15    Domdaniel: <moronovich> Just what I was thinking. Looking over the Avatars, I'm surprised just how many of them remind me of former contributors... Nov-03-15    cro777: <Domdaniel: Domdaniel: Does anyone have any comments on the Gambit line with b4 in the Wade Variation of the Advance French?> 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qb6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Bb5 7.dxc5 Bxc5 8.b4 click for larger view The sharp (gambit) move 8.b4 was introduced in 1976. It took Black 23 years to pluck up the courage to take the f2-pawn! The hero was Olafur Thorsson from Iceland. S Tidman vs S Chang, 2006 Nov-04-15    Domdaniel: <cro777> Former Irish champion Paul Delaney played it against me in '78, and I took on f2, and then tried ...a6 and ...Qa7. I lost in less than 25 moves. I'd never seen the idea before. Nov-05-15    cro777: You had enough courage to accept the gambit. The other players rather retreated his bishop or played 8...Bxe2. According to Joseph Stalin, in the Soviet army it took more courage to retreat than to advance. As you know, the proper defence (after Kf1) would be Nc6 or Bd7. S Tidman vs S Chang, 2006 Nov-05-15    Domdaniel: <cro> I guess 8.b4 deserves to be called the Mestel Gambit. It's actually quite a deep idea for White ... if it happened to turn up for the first time today, we'd all assume it was a computer discovery. I'd love to know where Mestel got the idea. Nov-05-15    Domdaniel: <Wade Var., Mestel Gambit? If the White Bishop goes to d3, then White can reply to ...Bxf2+ with Ke2, threatening Rf1 winning the Bishop. But after Be2 the King goes to f1, with no immediate threat to the Bishop on f2. Nov-05-15    Domdaniel: Here's another odd variation in the French. My opponent was Stephen Short, whom I had previously beaten and got the better side of a draw in the Advance French. So he switched to 2.f4 ... 1.e4 e6 2.f4 d5 Not a bad idea by White, actually - it should perhaps be seen more often. White gets to play an Advance with a subtly different pawn structure. 3.e5 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.d3 Nge7 6.g3 Nf5 7.Bg2 Qb6 8.c3 d4 9.c4 Ne3 10.Bxe3 Qxb2 11.Bd2 Qxa1 12.Qc2 Nb4? Argh. 12...a5! should win for Black. But after 12...Nb4 13.Bxb4 cxb4 14.Nfd2 Bd7 15.0-0 a5 I eventually lost. Nov-06-15    cro777: The Grand Prix Attack against the French. Nakamura played this opening with both colors in the U.S. championships. 5.c3 is the main line. 7...Qb6 (more common is 7...h5) has occurred in only one game before, in an open tournament in Berlin. After 8.c3 (more games have reached this position by transposition) Black usually continues with 8...Be7. Your move 8...d4 is a novelty in this position. You should have won. Anyhow, strength does not come from winning. Nov-06-15    Domdaniel: <cro> - <Anyhow, strength does not come from winning> Hmm, that's a point. On the other hand, I don't think it comes from losing either. Perhaps there's an optimal balance of the two... Nov-08-15    Domdaniel: This is a good Kasparov-Short game in the French: https://youtu.be/0SEBkKrJW-8 But FM Will Stewart, doing the commentary, seems to think it was played in something called the 'U Memorial'... - U? They had a memorial for former UN secretary general U Thant? - Nah, it's that Mitford bint, innit? U and non-U... - Ackshly, I think it's 'you'... - Me? Moi? Myself? - No, Ewe. As in sheep. - Aha. The sixth sheikh's sick sheep has a thing about orthoeptics. - Don't we all? Max Euwe is not a sheep. Or even a RAM. Nov-08-15    Domdaniel: Incidentally, has anyone else noticed how some people have begun to refer to the 3.e5 (or Nimzowitsch) line of the French as the "Advanced" Variation? Implying, I suppose, that it's an avant-garde rocket science thing. Whereas just calling it the 'Advance' means a pawn is pushed... If there is to be an Advanced Variation, then I'll stick with the Retarded Opening. Nov-08-15    Domdaniel: Another video: https://youtu.be/HHovOgDPsYo: I've admired Jesse Kraai for some time, and this is a fine discussion of the French. En passant, he ponders the matter of how there are more Armenians in Los Angeles than in Yerevan... And of course the Swiss-Armenian (or SWARM) is a key variation of the French. Nov-11-15    Domdaniel: How did Mr Dylan know? "If you see Saint Annie, please tell her, thanks a lot/ I cannot move, my fingers are all in a knot..." Nov-11-15    Annie K.: Ya know, I have a feeling Mr. Dylan's comment, in context, may not have been entirely void of a touch of sarcasm, all things considered. ;s Nov-12-15    Domdaniel: <A> Indeed. As in the well-known put-down or rebuff "Thanks a lot!". (Some more direct types, ever concerned with being misunderstood, prefer to say "Thanks for nothing".) Which is not what we mean at all. I prefer to think that the Dylan line can be, as it were, stripped of its sarcasm, de-ironified, rendered benign. Therapeutic hermeneutics. Anyhow, thanks a lot. Nov-13-15    Annie K.: No worries. I told you, I have a lot of posts parked in here myself. :) Nov-14-15    OhioChessFan: <cro> - <Anyhow, strength does not come from winning> <Dom: Hmm, that's a point. On the other hand, I don't think it comes from losing either. Perhaps there's an optimal balance of the two...> Yes. Strength comes from drawing. Nov-17-15    Domdaniel: "A lawn savant, who'll lop a tree..." Nov-17-15    Domdaniel: <Ohio> -- < Strength comes from drawing.> Y'know, I think you're right. Just the other day I played a club match game against an opponent who is rated about 200 points above me but against whom I have a fairly good record. This time, though, I gave away a pawn in the opening -- I thought I'd get play for it, but I was just losing a pawn -- and then endured about 40 moves of what was really just a lost position. Then, finally, when I'd lost a 2nd pawn and was offering a 3rd in desperation, and thinking I might have to resign soon, he slipped up, allowed me in ... and I forced a draw. Great things, draws. Nov-17-15    Domdaniel: So anyhow the club season just began. In the 1st game I played Stephen Short, for about the 6th time in the last couple of years -- I'd won one or two, lost one, drawn the rest. This was another draw, though I came close to losing. Then I lost the 2nd game to F. Noonan, whom I had beaten in our only previous game. Dropped a pawn stupidly and never recovered. So it goes. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 919 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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