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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 342 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-08-08    WBP: <Dom> You of the insatialble appetite for anagrams--preferably funny ones: I just graded a paper by a student who kept referring to <"the Untied States of America">. Can't tell if it's a typo, or if she's really a highly subtle and astute political/social commentator. Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Heh- what about the <Excited States of America>? Apr-08-08    achieve: Has anyone else noticed that Bill's featured students are always FE-male?? Hi <Bill>! Good to see you! Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <Bill> As-tute. I'm sure she meant <The Untied As-Test of A Crimea>. Or is it the <I-tuned Estats of Creamia>? Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> As you wish, ma reine. I'm reading Tal's book. Tal, btw, is a completely wonderful person. Pity about him being, you know, dead, but seemingly this is quite common among completely wonderful persons. They don't make 'em like they used to. Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Yes it's excellent eh? He has a marvellous sense of humor. Dont forget you can "play along' with your board and the handy Games Collection. I got the link for it in my Profile as you probly now. WEKALKD Apr-08-08    mack: Tal's Life & Games is the book that taught me what chess looks like. You would never have guessed it, of course, given that I dodge every last tactic that comes flying my way. But it's a very happy primer. Oh, and Tal could write. The wit pours off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you, or summat. Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> Weird as it may seem given how much time I spend here, I don't actually play through games on the CG interface - I download 'em to Fritz or Chessbase. Which already has Tal's greatest hits anyway. I'd feel naked without an engine running ... and you don't *have* to look at its stupid analysis anyhow. What I've noticed about Tal - this is hardly original - is not his genius for producing combinations, but his genius for creating conditions where combinations are possible. And not in the old classical Morphy way: much gnarlier. And so what if some of 'em have holes visible in the computer spectrum? It's all about setting your opponent too many problems for a human being to solve in a limited time, innit? Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: <mack> Tangled up in Tal? <dom> yeppers-- my favorite is when he deliberately offers his opponent the "privilige" of savaging his pawn structure in the early middle game. My favorite Tal game is also my favorite Fischer game-- the one I have at the top of my Profile. like a great movie or novel, I never get tired of playing it "just to look at it." And that freeze frame where all the pieces are <en prise> at once... You can't buy that. Well I suppose you can. But it's only 20 bucks a year!! <the pair of youse>: Oh you might both be interested in <Jim Jarmusch's> AMAZING film <the Dead Man> with Johnny Depp being so humbly marvellous and a sound scape by <Niel Young> that would have been good enough all by itself. and there's cannibalism as well! I mean talk about a "total package" Apr-08-08    mack: <It's all about setting your opponent too many problems for a human being to solve in a limited time, innit?> Yes, it is. I'm playing my final league match of the season tonight, and my is it an important one. Us Lot vs Them, with Them being ahead of us at the top of the league by just half a point. I plan to make my opponent go bonkers with a hippo - something I've not played for a long while in serious play. I'm itching to see if I can pull off that Holy Grail - an eight pawn hippo - and to really get things going I shall be playing 1...a6 tonight. That'll give him something to think about, eh. Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Good luck <mack>! Is a 8 pawn hippo where you move all your pawns out one square? Is a 9 pawn hippo possible? I suppose not-- since pawn's can't go backwards. Otherwise there could be! Cuz you could "promote" your pawn into a pawn. Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Wearing his "Desire" hat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBk... Apr-08-08    mack: <Is a 8 pawn hippo where you move all your pawns out one square?> Yes siree. Six pawns are a piece of piss; eight pawns will be a lot tougher. See Nezhmetdinov vs Ujtelky, 1964 Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Random Peter Greenaway lines with vague chess associations, Part One: "I think someone is trying to kill all the black and white animals" Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <<the Dead Man> with Johnny Depp being so humbly marvellous and a sound scape by <Niel Young> > I have the audio CD right beside me. But I've only seen parts of the actual movie. It makes the audio more innaresting, somehow. If I knew whut the Hull was going on. Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <"I think someone is trying to kill all the black and white animals"> A Zed and Two Noughts, I suspect. First time I saw it, there were twelve people in the cinema at the start, and two at the end. The second one was with me and wasn't allowed to leave. Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: Heh- thanks awfully for your commentary on my game <Dom>!! The film was shot on a shoestring, and as usual big giant stars agreed to work for <Jim Jarmusch> for Monopoly Money just to do something that might actually be remembered longer than two months: <Johnny Depp, Lance Henrikson, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Mitchum, John Hurt>, just to name a few... Not to mention <Gary Farmer>, the Canadian Indian actor who steals the whole show... Apr-08-08    jessicafischerqueen: WASN'T ALLOWED TO LEAVE choke.. hee Well for cripe sake well spotted. I used to watch <Zed> and <Draughtsman> over and over again, mesmerized by <Nyman's> relentless music with its driving mechanical nihilism that is oddly thrilling, elegaic, and comforting all at the same time... well spotted, <Dom>... like the dread <Cheetah>, perhaps Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <mack> Cue Tal's daydream about winching a Hippo out of a swamp with cranes and helicopters? Apr-08-08    Red October: Let it drown!!!! There's a ship arriving His Royal Bobness has won an honorary Pulitzer prize I hear Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: "His Bobness Honorary Memorial Rap Dream" "There's a fine young lady out India way And when the boys see her they want to play The chess grandmasters, they want to Fritz 'er But I say "Let me through, I got me a Pulitzer." Well, whaddaya know..." Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <Jess> There is no truth in the rumour that Peter Greenaway was asked by Hollywood to make an 18th century period prequel to 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids' and 'The Incredible Shrinking Man'. It was to be called 'The Draughtsman Contracts'. Apr-08-08    Red October: surprisingly no feminist has made a period film on a period... Mutiny on the PMS bounty... or Thin Red Lines.... Apr-08-08    tpstar: <period pieces> "All the King's Menses" "Sunday Bloody Bloody Sunday" "The Vagina Syndrome" "Harry Potter and the Tampon of Trouble" "I Know What You Did Last Cycle" Apr-08-08    Domdaniel: <tpstar> Aha, your specialist subject? Are you by any chance a big-eared heir to a throne, named Charles Philip Arthur George? No, not the *throne's* name ... aaargh. "The Big Red One" Full stop (period). Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 342 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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