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| Jul-03-08 | | ravel5184: Another extract from my profile:
<"Fool's Mate"
1. d3 e6 2. f3 d5 3. g4 c5 4. Bg2 Qh4#
click for larger viewFastest Mate 1. Kf3 e6 2. Qe1 Qf6#
click for larger viewA Clever Mate 1. Kd3 g6 2. Ke5 Bg7 3. Kxf7 Nf6 4. Kxd8 O-O#
click for larger viewMy Mate 1. Kf3 e5 2. Kg5 g6 3. Kxf7 Qe7+ 4. Kxh8 Bg7#
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Jul-04-08
 | | Domdaniel: <mack> You got your avataristic face collage thing back - congratulations. It is unique in the world of avtaar-clothing and nobody else should be allowed to wear it. If there are any psychologists around, I've got a theory about chess variants like Fischerrandom and KHC: a correlation with some kind of autism. The formalism and patterning of chess, minus much of the humanistic social-interaction stuff. Bobby and the Bunny spring to mind. And my last girlfriend used to tell me I had Asperger's syndrome: it's sufficiently diluted for me to pretend to do the human stuff, but I don't really *get* it. |
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| Jul-04-08 | | ravel5184: <Sir Boyle Roche> is remembered by me as having said "They are living hand and foot like the birds of the air." |
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Jul-04-08
| | Domdaniel: <ravel5184> At this stage, I'd almost believe you heard him say it in person. Thank you. Sir Boyle will have his own corner in Frogspawn KHC, one fine day. Or, at the very least, a place where he can feather his nest with fine words and buttered parsnips. |
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Jul-04-08
| | Domdaniel: <The Book of Frog Revelations> And behold
I held the white pieces
I saw a pale King Horse
And upon it, a Wan Owl
Or was it an <Oul' wan>? |
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Jul-04-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: My King <Dom> for a Horse Thanks mate- but I'm not leaving till August 7.
Any <BUM MULE> or <OSTERREICH> would be fab, of course... Heh I see that you and <Unraveled675456> have become pals, largely as I secretly predicted. Later today, I will, however, reveal COLD HARD evidence of a <sockpuppetry coup> so vast, so devious, as to chill the heart of the stoniest vole. More later...
PS I enjoyed eavesdropping on your fine and frisky conversation with one mysterious blue elephant, whose <latterly Doppelganger> haunts our site and implicitly invites me to addresss him as <Not Niels>. Although he IS named after a noble gas (xenon).
Or is that one ignoble?
I suppose time will tell.
But for how long? |
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Jul-05-08
| | Domdaniel: Hey, Jess. Aug 7? But that's, like, tomorrow, or something. Oh, wait, this is July.
Ave Caesar. Cretinus sum.
As to the other matter: if you can't beat 'em ... offer 'em a draw. Anyway *we* know that the numbers add up to nothing. Neil Young played here two nights back, but I didn't go: still walking on air after Cohen. The baffled King composing <King-Horse-oojah>. |
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Jul-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <Fingertips>
"Still she knows what kind of tip
She is going to get
A lot of loose exchanges
Precious little respect.
You see, I knew that song
So long before we met
That it means much more than it might...
Now I know that you're all King Horse
(Costello, King Horse)
"Sure I'd like to marry you
But I can't face the dawn
With any girl who knew me
When my fingerprints were on."
(Cohen, Fingerprints)
... everything connects ... |
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Jul-05-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: But what does it connect to?
Unhello!
Mrs. Uncertainty principle
Heligoland |
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Jul-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <But what does it connect to? > Unthank. I unthink. Untidily, but united in unison and uniform undies. Understand? |
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| Jul-05-08 | | Red October: U thunk wrong |
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Jul-05-08
| | Domdaniel: <Red> Wooden bee the first time. |
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Jul-06-08
| | Domdaniel: <A Historical Problem> I saw one game live during the Kasparov vs Karpov 1986 world championship match in London. I just found my ticket for the game in an old chess book - I'd thought it was long lost. It tells me that I was in the Park Lane Hotel on 22 Aug 1986. Can anyone tell me which game was played that day? I haven't been able to work it out from the database, and I'd like to know. |
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| Jul-06-08 | | 4tmac: Game 10. Kasparov was rumored to have said 43. b4?! threw away a win. (an eventual zugzwang?) But it's probably not there anyway. |
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Jul-06-08
| | Domdaniel: <4tmac> Thanks, that looks right. I remember that the game was looking drawish when I left (before move 43) but that there were some later twists and turns. |
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Jul-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <and on came stupid> is an anagram of ...? Stand-up comedian. |
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| Jul-07-08 | | mack: <<and on came stupid> is an anagram of ...?> Oh, you bloody show-off.
Sorry I've not been round much recently. Been overdosing on Baudrillard and trying to convince myself that when he said that 'there is no theory of the media' he simply meant that we haven't come up with one yet, not that it would be impossible to do so. What's the sitch? P.S. Ain't this the weirdest bloody song you ever heard/saw? Another one of Uncle Bob's pseudonyms, of course. 'And they wonder why I drink...' |
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| Jul-07-08 | | mack: A link might help, eh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auV2... |
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| Jul-07-08 | | JoeWms: See my forum piece on logic.
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Jul-07-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> -- <and on came stupid> Didn't say it was *my* anagram, did I?
Nicked it from the Observer crossword, though I did have to crack it first. Beau Drillard, eh? I like to imagine him in the French Foreign Legion. Although, come to think of it, being actually French might disqualify him. I'm still happy with a surprising amount of McLuhan's media ideas, especially the one that says "a medium amputates the organ it extends". Since google and the web, I feel I've been completely amputated. |
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Jul-08-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: In <The Evil Demon of Images> Board Really Hard claims that <The China Syndrome> and <Chernobyl> enjoy identical ontological statuses. Or was it ontic?
It was in French and I read it in English so I probably missed the boat. Hi <Dom>!!
I've been dusting voles.
Were you tempted to try to touch K or K?
I would have been thrown out probably.
Too bad people don't actually attend chess matches anymore eh? Mrs. Leko (apparently I'm hot, though I've not seen a picture of myself yet) |
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Jul-08-08
| | Domdaniel: Hi, Jess -- <Were you tempted to try to touch K or K? > Not even the hem of a garment.
It was boring. At least it was boring sitting in the auditorium in silence watching wood being chopped, slowly. I had more fun on the fringes. Across the road in the park, a 'chess master' - a 2300-rated whippersnapper - was taking on all comers in a simul, and I mated him. Speaking of which, congratulations to you and Peter Leko the Woods. |
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Jul-08-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh <Leko the Woods> is in Canada!! Well one of them is anyway.
Did you know that there are more than 20000000 "Duck Lakes" in Canada? Mated the snapper eh?
Fish and fowl---
Can't be bad.
I can't imagine it was boring.
Wasn't it exciting watching Kasparov wiggle his forehead folds up and down? What do I look like?
The Bishop of Blunder says I'm hot.
I'm way too lazy to check for a picture myself.
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Jul-08-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> It's cool, you're hot. No, wait, it's the other way round: it's hot, you're cool. Or even both, but not Loek Warrum.
What do you *Loek* like? How would eye know, being blind as a vole bat? Like Minerva Von Brodie on her 18th vodka tonic, maybe. Some owl wan. <wasn't it exciting watching Kasparov...?>
*You* may well have found it so - although not, clearly, in 1986.
*I* couldn't possibly comment. |
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Jul-08-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hmmm no, no <Bishop of Blunder> has a theory that <Leko's wife> is a hottie. I know what I look like and it's not a pretty site.
"Oh, you wouldn't recognize the place now. They've bulldozed most of it and put in a motorway" Heh <Benny Hill> joke... Cool Hand Luke Warm is probably the best <ambiguous temperature> Paul Newman vehicle. Mrs. almost finished watching and listening to the entire history of pop culture on the Internet for free and my eyes hurt. |
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