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 931 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-19-16    posoo: da old posoo has only THREE identaties and BRONKOT is not one of them. I am da most honest man you will ever meet. Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: <Ohio> Heh. That limerick is sinful according to at least three belief systems. Welcome to the sinners' team... Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: <posoo> - <I am da most honest man you will ever meet.> Er, shouldn't that be "da must horniest man yew will ever meat" ... ? I fear your ability to come up with original speelings is slipping. You are Da Speelman! Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: A pic of all four runners-up in the Munster ch'ship -- http://www.munsterchessunion.org/mu... I'm the good-looking one, of course. It was pointed out to me afterwards that if I'd played on for a win against Paul Walsh I'd have won the title - not *totally* implausible, as our game went. I'd dropped a pawn for reasonable compensation, found my way to a sort of attack, but contented myself with regaining the pawn instead of pressing for more. I was mainly concerned with not losing, which I suppose demonstrates some inner lack of macho competiveness. I ended up with three draws as white and two wins as black -- inverted GM strategy? Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: <Ohio> There's a novel called 'The Dork from Cork' -- I forget who wrote it, but it was filmed under a more euphonious name ... Frankie Starlight, perhaps. Despite the superficial look of the words, I maintain that 'Dork' and 'Cork' don't actually rhyme... I know of one Limerick-limerick (not mine) which starts: As two rustic cats went to Limerick The brighter hick spoke to the dimmer 'ick ... Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: I should point out that the venue for this event was the <McCarthy Suite> of the West County Hotel. This is known as an omen, I believe. Sep-19-16    OhioChessFan: There were two fat coppers from Limerick A bright Jimmy and a dimmer Mick You should have heard the invectives Sail forth from the detectives As they argued which was the slimmer dick Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: <Jess> - <And of course there is no 2...g6 in the OPENING EXPLORER although it seems like a perfectly fine move to me.> Very true - nor is it in the couple of other databases I looked at, though 2...g6 must be a reasonable move. In one tournament years ago I tried 1.e3 (Van't Kruijs, weirdo opening fans!) as White, somehow winning one game in just 12 moves. Then in the crunch last round I played 1.e3 and my opponent said "I thought you might do that" and replied 1...g6. I lost. The main point of ...g6 is that it discourages white's b3 and Bb2, which is often the plan after both 1.e3 and 1.f4. I guess 1.f4 f5 is pretty rare - and when it *is* played there are amusing gambits for both sides - e4 for white or ...e5 for black. Sometimes after a series of unusual moves it's possible to play a quite normal moves that turns out to be a novelty, because the position is almost never reached. Sep-19-16    Domdaniel: <Ohio> Great verse, though the syllable count could be improved. If the middle lines were "You could hear the invectives/ Rise from the detectives" it would scan better, IMO. I'm quibbling with genius, of course. Sep-19-16    OhioChessFan: Of course you should quibble with genius. What else is worth your time? I'll have another quibble at the apple later on. Sep-19-16    posoo: Dunnus, da old posoo NEVER discuses SEXUAL maters in public. Sep-19-16    mckmac: <Jessica> Well met indeed! Great to see you are still holding things together here. Still turning an elegant phrase or two, too. Fair play to <Dom> for chalking one up for the 'old guys'. Quite inspiring really. Sep-20-16    Boomie: <A pic of all four runners-up in the Munster ch'ship -- http://www.munsterchessunion.org/mu...> Confirming my suspicion that Dom is actually Fabulous Furry Freak Brother Phineas, seen here on the right in a rare snapshot from Haight Ashbury when HA was really HA - https://images.search.yahoo.com/sea... Sep-20-16    ketchuplover: Hope your nephew is excelling at chess :) Sep-20-16    Domdaniel: I found one game which began 1.e3 f5 2.f4 g6 ... but the players were rated 1267 and 1086, so we won't go there. Just as I would not expect a GM to pay attention to my efforts... Sep-20-16    Domdaniel: <ketchup> Thanks. I have *three* nephews in various cities, aged between 6 and 21 -- and all of them play chess, without much direct input from me. Sep-20-16    Domdaniel: <Boomie> Heh ... indeed. A definite odour of the Fabulous Furry Old Age Pensioner Brothers. Sep-22-16    mckmac: <Brother Dom Phineas> Sounds like a Padre in a book by Umberto Eco, or maybe the dude who actually got it right with Carmela Soprano in the tragically lost episode from season five. One of those names that roll. Sep-23-16    mckmac: A little late for the train to Limerick ... As two rustic cats went to Limerick The brighter hick said to the dimmer 'ick Stay clear of the drunks They're meaner than skunks That's all that I know about Limerick Sep-23-16    Domdaniel: <mckmac> That sounds accurate. Scene. Night. Limerick City Centre, at around midnight. I am walking back to my hotel. This is at a time, a few years ago, when the tabloids have taken to calling Limerick 'Stab City'. It got worse before it got better. I start to walk across a street. A woman on a bicycle approaches. I accelerate, jumping out of her path... Woman: "Heh. I'm not going to stab yeh." Me (thinks): Am I so obviously a scared visitor? This actually happened. Strange place, Limerick. Sep-23-16    Domdaniel: I've been reading 'City of Bohane' by Kevin Barry - an amazing novel set in a sort of hyper-Limerick, a fictional Irish city forty years in the future, full of gang warfare, rasta gypsies, Chinese assassins, albino killers, sand-pikeys and Norries... incredible. Sep-24-16    mckmac: <Domdaniel> What, we ask, is a 'Norrie'? Are they perhaps the followers of Norman or the minions of Norelle? The Urban Dictionary is no help. Fortunately, there is a chapter from 'City of Bohane' online, and it's a terrific read. Seems that the Norrie's are a gang of bad-ass aggravators who hail from the 'Northside Rises'. Sep-24-16    Domdaniel: <mckmac> Yeah, Norrie is slang for Northsider. Mainly heard in Cork. Sep-27-16    posoo: Da man from Junsorio came across da path in da autumntime. Many people were sospicus of him but he had da disposition of a GRAVEDIGOR. It was my grave. POSOO DIED. Sep-30-16    Domdaniel: < a Padre in a book by Umberto Eco> Did I mention that Umberto Eco bought me a whiskey once? Yawn. I probably did. Interesting times, though ... around 1990? In the space of ten days I met and/or interviewed Umberto Eco, Peter Greenaway, JG Ballard, and Terry Gilliam. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 931 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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