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 921 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-10-15    Domdaniel: A superb resource for francophiles: Game Collection: The Even More Flexible French Dec-10-15    Domdaniel: It has begun. <Chancho> nabbed the first one, which pleases me. And <Switch> decoded the 2nd, which he deserves. I'll warm up eventually, I hope... only once, as I recall, did I manage to solve one of the first ten klus. O Nuklu! Deliver us from Unbelief! Render their thoughts into gibberish And their words into simian grunts. Dec-11-15    Domdaniel: D'fhéadfadh an fórsa bheith in éineacht leat... Dec-11-15    Domdaniel: Or, as they say to recruits to An Garda Siochana: "May you be with the Force". Dec-13-15    Domdaniel: This year's Nuklu Hunt is strange, for me. Thanks to the Benevolence of St. Annie - thanks a lot, again! - there's not much point in trying to extend my CG membership by a few months. Though a book would be nice. So I'm more inclined to share my ideas in the Kib Café. I still look for answers - I'd like to maintain my record of at least one win each year - but I'm less committed to it. Dec-13-15    Domdaniel: With this post, I join the 27,000 club. Dec-13-15    Domdaniel: <Jessica> - <I have a flim clip of him kicking Kortschnoi but I can't find the bloody thing at the moment. > I should point out that this is a scientific impossibility. Most 'secular' cameras just explode when aimed at me -- some sophisticated models remain intact, but they rarely capture a likeness. The only verified image in the whole nutterweb is a silhouette, caught in Galway a few years ago. I was once in the same room as Viktor Korchnoi, but no photographic evidence survives. If I'd seen anyone taking pics, I'd have had to kill them. Dec-13-15    Domdaniel: I was watching the Carlsen-MVL playoff, when somebody named <sodacat> from Ireland posted this: "It's not true that you need a high IQ to be a chessplayer - have you never heard of Colm Daly?" Ouch! Daly is a many-times Irish champion, who has made a lot of enemies with his blog on Irish chess. I lost a game to him in the 1980s, and another last year. Dec-13-15    Domdaniel: Then - during the Carlsen-MVL rapid playoff - there was some debate about the difference between the "Ray Keene" and "Roy Keane" schools of thought. I have a little experience of both: I've played Mondo, and I live in Roy's beloved Cork. But I couldn't possibly comment. Dec-13-15    rookpawn101: <Domdaniel> Thanks for your wishes. Examinations went off well. Now I've got a full month to study and enjoy Chess, been waiting for this for a long time. Dec-14-15    twinlark: <Domdaniel> Apropos to thinking and language, have you noticed how sometimes the comment that cuts deepest is the unsaid comment? Subtext is such a subtle flavour in language, sometimes in spite of it kinda ... metaphorically smacking you in the metaphorical face even as it preserves its plausible deniability in so doing. Language. You gotta love it. Silence. Sometimes you gotta love it even more. Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <twinlark> Thanks. I will ponder that. Wasn't it George Steiner who wrote about 'Language and Silence'? I reckon the main problem with unsaid comments is that there are so many of them... everyone has one of their own. Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <Silence. Sometimes you gotta love it even more.> is a subtle way of saying "Shut up", isn't it? Dec-14-15    jessicafischerqueen: <OmDaniel> Did you win any of the Christmas klus yet? Here is an inspirational video about your new moniker that should help you get more klus than ever this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6... Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <Jessika> -- < Did you win any of the Christmas klus yet?> Indeed, it is true that I did not. Hey... in my CG webshite peregrinations today, I happened to come upon the phrase "One TRU kign!!" ... remember that one? Since Annie kindly gifted me a cg membership for the next 85 years approx (I'll be almost 100!) ... I don't have *quite* the same motivation to extend my membership by winning prizes. Though of course I'd like to continue my record of a win every year. Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <Jess> Great vid. My brother - who is too young to remember them - thinks that the Beatles were a 'boy band' like, yanno, Westlife or whatever. Heresy, obviously. I try to tell him how wrong he is, but it doesn't take. Is there a Beatles tracklist that might cure him? Dec-14-15    jessicafischerqueen: Good for <Annie>. Rumour has it that she has purchased up to 90% of all premium accounts at this website. I hope <The Grand Piano> appreciates her support. Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <Jess> Yes indeedy, <Annie> is a Wizard, a Tru Star. Dec-14-15    Domdaniel: <Annie, Jess, twinlark ...> Have any of you science-fiction fans read 'The Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell? I've just been reading it, and I think it is utterly brilliant. First, simply as a great work of fiction with fine writing and superb characterization. But also as a great contribution to linguistic SF, and to sf/theology. I once wrote a story where the Pope hijacked a spaceship... this is much better. Dec-14-15    Annie K.: <Dom> sorry, no... Is she by any chance related to Eric Frank Russell? <Jess> hmm... another rumor has it that you have probably bought at least as many as I have. So then, if we put them together, this would mean that we have purchased up to 180% of all premium accounts? Yay math! ;) Dec-14-15    twinlark: <Have any of you science-fiction fans read 'The Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell?> Yes, I did. Although not the sequel. As you say, a brilliant book. SF/theology like Case of Conscience and the Blish's After Such Knowledge series have always fascinated me and are permanent members of my bookshelf. I happened across Thomas Disch's "Priest" novel and am reading it with some fascination. He must be a Catholic, or more likely an ex-Catholic... Dec-14-15    twinlark: <<Silence. Sometimes you gotta love it even more.> is a subtle way of saying "Shut up", isn't it?> No, it was too late for that. More along the lines of an exhortation to think before one speaks, and where appropriate, say nothing. Needs to be read in context. Dec-15-15    Boomie: The chess analogy for "Silence" is the moves not played. Studying why certain moves were not played can lead to a greater understanding of the position. A personality is defined in part by all the actions not taken. We appreciate our friends in part because they avoid social gaffes. Dec-15-15    Domdaniel: Re; silence. The placing of cats among pigeons is a hobby of mine. Dec-15-15    Domdaniel: So, what do we think of the Irish-Australian habit of gross personal abuse in a 'friendly' mode? Such as "How are yeh, yeh bastid, how's the bollixin family eh?" More delicate peoples take offense. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 921 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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