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Apr-23-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Jess> Conrad, what a writer, bloody marvelous, thanks for pointing me back at it. My other favorites are Victory and The Secret Agent ... but HOD is out there in a space of its own. Long Good Friday is pretty good too. As is Mona Lisa, if you like Bob 'oskins. |
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Apr-23-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Hod>? What about <Hud?> Best Paul Newman film ever. <Melvin Douglas> (Hud's father): "Hud, you're an unprincipled man."
LOL
<Hud> (with his little brother and father in the cafe, right after the beers are put on the table): "Hey Dad, let's get a little family "feeling" going..." HAHAHAHA
This Western is not for wimps.
<Narcissitic> posts- ??? Nothing got erased <Dominus> Is this one of those "inside jokes" I've heard about? Gennelmen, just try to stay within the DIAGESIS of <Dom's> thread, here, for Cripes sake. Jess of the Yard
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Apr-23-07
 | | WannaBe: <jessicafischerqueen> You're Canadian?!?!?!?!?! And you don't think "Slap Shot" is the best Paul Newman film?? Please return your citizenship paper to the nearest office, thank you for your cooperation. |
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Apr-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: mann bee strikes again |
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Apr-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <mann bee strikes again>
They do that, I find. Pesky li'l varmints. O MannBee, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling? |
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| Apr-24-07 | | whiteshark: "<They move like frogs>" was my suggestion.
This description found no consideration. Unintelligible to me.
I think the other attempts are also not much better. Dom, would you intervene ?
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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Apr-24-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: LOL Frog Knights
Did you know the <bishop> was actually the first "hopping" piece? The <Alaphin> (from Elephant) was a Elephant who could hop, but he was clumsy and ineffective in attack. And slow. The Elephants turned into Bishops in Italy, people guess. Then they souped up the Bishop so he could race on diagonals instead of hop. Then they let the Queen do what she likes. All this in Italy Source: The Chess book I'm reading right now.
title: POsted above here in <Frogspawn> The Scotch? Dewar's White Label.
Insane Olde Batte
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| Apr-24-07 | | WBP: <Dom> Greetings, sir! In view of all my recent typos, I'm trying to keep posts shorter--easier to catch mistakes! Coming soon (probably this wekend): "<Frogspawn>: A Reminisce" |
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| Apr-24-07 | | mckmac: <Domdaniel> Hi Dom,There's a nice new Vaganian game posted up by < Plato :
And he's still playing great positional chess in 2007! For example, he had an elegant Nimzowitschian-style win with Black over Rustemov in the Bundesliga > Sounds like your kinda cuppa mate.Rafael Vaganian |
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Apr-24-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <,ckmmcakck> Wow that is an entertaining game. Who is this <Rafael Vegetarian>? Insane Olde Batte
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| Apr-24-07 | | mckmac: <jessicafischerqueen> If at any time in the future you deign to address me, please feel at liberty to use my <handle>.Thank you. Matt <mckmac> |
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| Apr-24-07 | | WBP: <Dom> has left the building. |
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Apr-24-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <mckmack>
You have a "handle" like them CB truckers?
That's super cool, man.
So what's your handle? <Big Daddy>? I need to know
Insane Olde Batte
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Apr-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: New FROGSPAWN Feature!!!!!
"Academic Humor"
Part One: <The Larch> What is an Academic's worst nightmare?
Waking up in the middle of the night, and realizing in an instant that her entire life's work was stated more accurately, and succinctly, by <E.B. White> in an essay he published in <The New Yorker> in 1941. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHA
Part Two: c'mon lets hear some more you guys are all Academics for Cripe sake. I'mm the Studint!!!!
Insane Olde Batte
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: I may have left the building briefly but I'm sure I had a good reason at the time. Spring. Sunshine. Young Man's Fancy. All that sort of stuff. Highly overrated, if you ask me. I'm back where I belong at the electronic grindstone now, anyway. <Jess> Rafi Vaganian is a dashing Armenian GM, wizard with the French, ace exponent of the Swarm Variation... who had the bad luck to have a name not beginning with K. During chess's Kafkaesque era, only players like Korchnoi, Karpov, Kasparov and Kramnik could reach the top. Vaganian still merits an entry in your Vaginictionary, though. And it's been a while since we had a good Spirit of Saint Nimzo Award, so Rafi wins one of those as well. |
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| Apr-25-07 | | achieve: Hey <Dom> Very warm weather indeed.. I googled "insane old Batte" for fun, see if it means anything, and guess what! - Your forum directly on top of the list.. Twice! I thought that Profiles were monitored but it is clear now that "everything" is in the open.. Creepy. |
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| Apr-25-07 | | WBP: <"Academic Humor": c'mon lets hear some more you guys are all Academics for Cripe sake> Why did the academic cross the road?
To desperately try to escape the living hell that was his life. (On plagiarism [this is true]: I once had a student hand in a paper I knew full well he wasn't intellectually capable of writing. I confronted him about it--not angrily, mind you--and he was quite indignant at my suggestion that the essay wasn't his own work: "That is my work," he rather hotly submitted. "I went online, searched for it and found it, and then downloaded it." And he was very serious. Hey, you can't fight logic like that!) |
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <whiteshark> "They move like frogs" is indeed better than almost all other descriptions of the Knight's move. I say 'almost' because there's just one tiny flaw: you don't specify the size or strength of the frog. A weak little frog might barely make it to the next square, or even land back where he started. But a big strong frog might leap all the way from g1 to e8. In which case the game would begin:
1. Checkmate.
So we need to modify the description: "They move like Frogs that are neither too weak nor too strong, but just right." Personally, I like Napier's definition:
<W.E. Napier remarked: ‘Lately, I heard a better definition, jocularly spoken by a lady-pupil of mine. It owes nothing to Euclid or to Blackstone, but much to human nature. Said she, “The knight-leap is as close as two jealous queens can be, without mischief to either”.’> I wonder which queens she had in mind.
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Why did the Academic Cross the Road?> The Biology Professor did it to produce a hybrid road, and thus demonstrate descent with modification. The proponent of Intelligent Design did it to show that God wouldn't allow him to be run over by a truck because he had something important to say. But he avoided rush-hour, just in case. The professor of literary theory crossed the road by accident, while trying to emulate Derrida with those fancy 'erasure' marks. The professor of journalism wanted to show his students the accident. The economist wanted to demonstrate that, given a flat road with two sides and rational consumers, prices on the other side should eventually equalize in theory. The transcendentalist philosopher wanted to get to the other side. The pragmatist philosopher wanted to show that sides are an artefact of wherever you happen to be. The administrator wanted to run the bureaucracy on the Other Side. |
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| Apr-25-07 | | WBP: I've discovered that a CG member has an avatar very similar to mine--a stoney medieval visage. I've seen him (and I'm assuming it's a he, based on the name that goes with it) post on the daily puzzle and occasionally elsewhere as well. At first, I thought it was I, but I couldn't recall making a post there. Only when I looked closer did I see it was someone else. (And none of this is intended in any way to be negative about the member.) Worse still, his avatar looks like mine after a bad night out on the town--bloated and ruddy and clearly in need of some rest. (Again, no offense intended in any way.) I think it would be hilarious to strike up a conversation with him--have a string of refugee-from-the-monastery-stone faces running up and down the page. Speaking of which, there are some other near-lookalike avatars. <Eyal's> eerie and wonderful chessboard avatar is echoed to some degree in a pink-colored chessboard avatar (and that forum's not now among the forums posted, so I can't tell you whose it is); the donkey aspect of <MckMac's> and <Dakgootje's> respective avatars occasionally confuses me (I have a tough time reading computer screens--another reaons for my legendary typos); and <Resignation Trap's> Larry and <Shropeshire's> Tal have similar hairdos that sometimes leave me guessing. This is all delightful, if sometimes deeply troubling. |
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Yes, we seem to be the leading world centre for Insane Old Battery. A distinction of sorts, I suppose... |
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| Apr-25-07 | | achieve: We're being looked after..
Do you play at ICC? Or any other online chess server? |
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Moi? Actually play chess online? Ehhh, no. One thing at a time, mate. Let's see if I can haul my ass into a club and play non-virtual opponents first. |
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> I've noticed your gargoylish doppelganger, but the name eludes me. They don't seam to have a search function for such features as 'ugly', 'made of stone' and 'ripped off a medieval cathedral somewhere'. I just hope my Significant Other Eye never shows up. I have trouble telling left from right as it is. |
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Apr-25-07
| | Domdaniel: Remember this? <Jess> - <: <Hod>? What about <Hud?> Best Paul Newman film ever.> I could've sworn I replied with the words 'Hudsucker Proxy' but it now seems that I didn't. And was apparently AWOL for two days. Hmmm. Maybe I forgot. Or maybe I did post it and got deleted for reasons unknown. Or it could've been one of those Alternative Universe Situations. If I accidentally posted these words somewhere else by mistake, at least now you know why. Kinda. |
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