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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Frogspawn: Levity's Rainbow

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 396 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-23-08    mckmac: Life is not a word game. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <Life is not a word game.> Mine is. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <you have the heart of a midget,buried by the brain of a big fat giant.> And this is midgetism. The dimensionality of my blood-pump is irrelevant, and anyway I left it in San Francisco. The other kind of heart - some sort of emotional quality? - is just a quaint superstition. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <mckmac> - <I will hound them to the edge of this earth> Easy for you to say, when you live so close to it. Aug-23-08    Red October: is that a regular Frogspawn or a serious frogspawn Aug-23-08    Red October: The Chess GM came over And he said Im gonna play White! In the chessgames challenge We would be in for quite a fight If we are ready willing and able To play a safe opening He would go into the Petroff The safest of all And split half a point with me But I said look here brother Dont try fooling with that drawnik opening Look here brother, you wont take half a point from me Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: It *is*, however, some time since *chess* has been discussed here. Perhaps I should rectify this. Awkward words, those. "Should" and "rectify" in particular. In the spirit of King Horse Chess, I have now invented Boomerang Chess aka <The King does a Bungee jump from the Castle>. Rules: exactly the same as normal, except that castling may be carried out any any time, regardless of where the king and rook are, whether they've moved, etc. Castling out of check is fine, but not into it. Castling *through* check is meaningless, as the king may spring back across the whole board. The castling move involves placing the King on g1 or c1 (if white) and g8 or c8, if black. In all cases a rook - not necessarily the one that originally started on that side of the board - is moved simultaneously to the appropriate square (f1/d1 or f8/d8). Simple as that. For example, in this position: click for larger view Black, to move, is threatened with immediate mate. His Rook, hindered by its own pawns, seems powerless to intervene. But ... Bungee! 1 ... 0-0+ Leads to this position: click for larger view And Black picks up Queen for Rook and wins the pawn ending easily. Note that White has no Rook and therefore can't escape by bungee-castling out of check. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <Red> *That* is a regular Frogspawn. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: The arrival squares should be vacant: no bungee-castling with a capture. But white can play 0-0 even if f1 is attacked, as the King is not deemed to pass through en route to g1. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: "Like a bridge Over troubled chessboards I will bungee down ..." Aug-23-08    Red October: "Thail on Frogthpawn...." Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <Jumpin' King Flash> And you can 'castle' as many times as you like during a game. This makes rooks more valuable, but I couldn't begin to calculate by how much. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: And no castling out of mate. Aug-23-08    mack: Time for an 'old frog folk song... from Scotland': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IncW... Seems highly appropriate, somehow. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <mack> Phew, you're back. Just in the nick. Of time, I mean. Some lunatic said you were 'right'. Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: "There are all kinds of creatures in the world and they're all good..." Yeah. To eat. Aug-23-08    Red October: < Domdaniel: And no castling out of mate > well but we should practice safe chess shouldn't we ? Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: <Red> -- <safe chess> Heh. I certainly think so. But obviously not everyone agrees -- just look at the epidemic of poisoned pawns. Aug-23-08    Red October: and funny enough, the Bishops are at the center of the epidemic ;-p Aug-23-08    Domdaniel: Bishops are like that. And don't even mention Bishops in frames. Aug-23-08    Harvestman: Wow! Bungee-castling chess. Here's a first try at an idea: White to play: click for larger view White is threatened with mate by 1...Qxc2+ 2.Ka1 (or 2.Ka3) Qxa2#. Note that bungee-castling for white still leads to mate 1.0-0-0 (with Ra2) Qxc2#, or 1.0-0-0 (with Rg7) Qxd1+ 2.Kb2 Qxc2 3.Ka1 (or Ka3) Qxa2#. White could try 1.cxb4 or 1.Bxb5, but neither of these are very clear. White wins an exchange, but black is a piece and a pawn up in the starting position, so black remains ahead on material, and several of the white pieces are en-prise. 1.Nxb4 regains the piece, but then black survives with 1...Nf3. Therefore, 1.Qg2+!! (1.Ne3 fails to Rxg5) Kxg2 2.Ne3+ Kh3 3.Bg2+ (not mate) 0-0-0 (with either rook - note that 3...0-0 is not possible as black will land in check) 4.Ra8#. Best I could do. Bet there's a flaw in it somewhere. Aug-23-08    jessicafischerqueen: <The Domfather> YOU'VE GOT MAIL! (left over from your re-creation of the Battle of Agincourt, organized by the Battesford Women's Guild?) Get it? HAHAHAHAA Aug-23-08    Red October: I <Domdaniel> is the greatest sock puppet of all time!! Think about it... the founder of chessgames.com is also .... a <DANIEL> Aug-23-08    jessicafischerqueen: <HMS not hms123>: Heh... Curioser and curioser... Aug-23-08    Red October: And he is also the Grand Wazoo of the Order of the <Curioso Dominoso> which bathe only in the finest <DOM PERIGNON CHAMPAGNE> Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 396 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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