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 935 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-20-16    Domdaniel: <Fusilli> As I said, it's a tiny, tiny thing, and I very much enjoyed your review. I particularly liked the way that you gave a thorough account of Fine's work, and only referred to your own chess experience at the end. As a former sub-editor, I have the impression that editing standards have slipped. We writers always need good editors. Dec-20-16    Fusilli: Thank you for your kind words :) I almost didn't include my own background at all, but I thought it would give the author's work (and my review) more legitimacy. Dec-20-16    Geronimo: Against the Day: I'd say wait... It's coherence And brilliance will become and build itself more and more over time than in spite of it. I was blown away. But it's certainly 20th, not 21st century literature. All the same, I'm so grateful to know there are others out there who love chess and literature, two of my esoteric vitamins that keep me conscious. Signed copy? You might as well hold the grail, or Capa's private chess set, or L. Mozart's violin bow. That's just beautiful. Cheers! Dec-20-16    Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I'm not quite sure if the signed edition is genuine. My brother found it in a charity shop in London a few years ago for £100 and thought it was real. The guy in the shop said they hadn't been able to validate it. But it's an American 1st ed, mint condition, with a sticker from a small bookstore in New England. Signed and dedicated by TP in a plausible manner. If it's a fake, somebody went to a lot of trouble. Dec-20-16    Domdaniel: I'll follow your advice and tackle Against the Day again. Contra diem. Dec-20-16    Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I've met many of my other favorite writers: Umberto Eco, William Gibson, JG Ballard, etc. Not Pynchon, of course. Even if it was possible, I resolved years ago to respect his privacy. I *think* I understand his reasons. But they are valid either way. Dec-20-16    Domdaniel: <Luke W> Tom Jones may well be the 2nd greatest living Welshman ... after John Cale. Dec-20-16    Station Radio: <...and we are back with Station Radio .. Swell Norda here .. and this is The Fried Grilled Fruit Cake Hour... Today's celeb is Thomas Ruggles Pynchon and he was born on May 8 which means he's a Jack of Diamonds kittiwakes .. Wow .. I mean just WOW ... I thought he was .. I mean incredible as it seems ...... I just gnu Sometimes ggftujjydeyhjj .. Hfftgjjcde hgderthhuhdyhv .. Bvxdddyigfdjiij .. njhuhhbnkhdt... Speak up caller ... What ... mate there is no need ... to be rude .. you wombat tick you ...> Dec-21-16    Domdaniel: Is a wombat tick ... (a) A tick that looks like a wombat (b) A figure of speech (c) A tick that infests wombats (d) A fiction, as wombats don't exist (e) None of the above ... ? Dec-21-16    Domdaniel: Is Swell Norda related to Laura Norda? Dec-22-16    Station Radio: Younger Sister Brah. Plse try to keep up. Dec-23-16    Domdaniel: <Geronimo> I found this quote somewhere on the nutterweb. It seems apposite. <"Either Gravity's Rainbow or Against the Day is my favorite.   Gravity's Rainbow is my classical music, calculated and precise, tweaked, perfect, symmetrical, not unlike like the 00000's parabola itself. Against the Day is my free jazz, hazy and inexact, anarchic, defective, unbalanced, not unlike light and dark themselves. Completely opposite they are—natürlich!—yet, because of this, they are alike in their own sheer magnitude and scope."> Dec-24-16    Geronimo: I like the comparison, but I'd say AtD is like twenty radio stations playing at once with all genres and eras mixed together. This is what I meant by 20th century literature: a "Hear Comes Everybody" that (in my opinion) succeeds where so many others' attempts do not. I grok the free jazz reference though. And I imagine T.P. does too, especially with someone like Ornette Coleman in mind (who was probably an inspiration for McClintic Sphere in V. If I'm not mistaken) who's harmolodic theory of tempo finds unity in chaos much as does the explosive (cyclomitish? Schwartzgeratish?) inclusiveness of GR and AtD.... Well I love his writing in any case, that's one thing I know. Dec-25-16    Alien Math: <Domdaniel> Merry Christmas! Dec-28-16    Station Radio: <Uncle Dom> I believe you dropped a ' there matey. You might be a real chessplayer* once again --and it has been a real trip backing you, for your many fans and students -- but there is absolutely no excuse for this kind of casual posting. If you don't hold yourself to the highest of standards, who the hell do we have to look up to? I'm going to go tell <Eyal>. Disgraceful. <mckmac> Dec-30-16    Domdaniel: <Matt> Yerst, most acute of yer. Things are being dropped - apostrophes, pilots, aitches, knickers, subjects, guns, acid tabs, dead donkeys, usw - all the time. I'm suffering from sticky keyboard syndrome. I go over each post to reinsert the absent u's ... otherwise a line like "Bish Tutu put a tulip under the guru's lumpy tummy" would be "Bish Tt pt a tlip nder the gr's lmpy tmmy". And how to tell a gnu from a gun? And then there are the pon-my-word-strophes and apodictic aphelical apocheirs. Dec-30-16    Domdaniel: Hello, Harold old chap. Delete you? Never. I don't do delete - unless compelled by the powers that be - and I certainly don't do Ignore. If you'd care to look back over the previous 934 pages here, you might find even more people to dislike. You might find people to dislike that you'd never even heard of. Though you'd also see thousands of posts by Jessica, whom you seem to fancy something rotten. In the state of Denmark, innit? Now fook off, Harold. Dec-30-16    Domdaniel: That, Arry, is cheating. Deleting your own stupid post before I could explain why I wasn't going to. You don't escape so easily, wazzock. Dec-30-16    Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Why, thank you. You have an amazing mind, even though too few people seem to realize this. Happy new year, and my best wishes for 2017. There's a response in your forum too. Dec-30-16    harrylime: "Wazzock" lol lol lol Not heard that expression in a looooong time ! xx Dec-30-16    harrylime: Happy New Year mr <DOM> This IS a chess site on the net .. Never forget that ! All the best for 2017 .. xx Dec-30-16    Domdaniel: <Harry> Er, let's do a few sums, shall we? I know it might hurt your brain, if you have one. But I'll take the risk. Of course it's a bleedin chess site. I've been here since about 2006, ten years ago. I play in tournaments. I don't need to prove chess credentials to anyone, least of all you. But I've posted on chess thousands of times. Have you? This is boring, Harold. You've grabbed the wrong end of a stick and decided I'm somebody I'm not. Which makes me think you're just stupid. 90% of what you post is jukebox shyte that anyone with half a brain could find themselves. The rest is idiot trolling and dumb lollery. My posts are often chess-related, sometimes erudite or recondite (no, 'arry, those are not types of glue) ... and sometimes just magnificent-o-fookingly obscure. And you are jealous. Dec-30-16    harrylime: Oh wow lol You've played in "chess tournaments " lol lol Sheeeeesh ! lol lol Jeeez Had no idea <DOM> ! lol lol What a NUMPTIE YOU ARE ... Get outta ere ! xxx But APPY NOOOOO YEEEER to you anyway ... Dec-30-16    harrylime: <DOM> I think you're SAD .. so I'm not jel .. just the opp .. Your posts in the CAFF are zzzzz and a distraction .. You've got your wish .. I won't be posting to your beloved JFQ again .. OK ? lol lol APPY NOO YEER ! xxx Dec-31-16    Alien Math: <Domdaniel> Thank you for The Curve of the Earth book suggestion, going to try find a copy to read in the new year, We lost another writer the day before Christmas, Richard Adams 1920 - 2016, author of Watership Down and Shardik, i didn't get to read his other book yet Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 935 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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