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Dec-21-08
 | | Domdaniel: Heh. Another 4-month subscription, taking me up to, um, 2037 or so, I reckon. Four down. Still stumped by Dec 24th, still one behind MAJ. |
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| Dec-21-08 | | Crowaholic: <MAJ: Actually, I did hit the chess set prize and passed over it, thinking that the clue was too easy> Yes, it's strange that this was considered hard. The same goes for Balashov vs Shabalov. I merely expected to get a membership extension for it. On the other hand, there was no premium prize for #37 which required Stonehenge to know that 100 monkeys = "capes". This seems a bit arbitrary. I will not trade prizes though, so congratulations on your twenty months winning streak. :-p |
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| Dec-21-08 | | Eyal: <the very same folk who censored us have games like this in their database: Oral vs D Cummings, 2000> As well as S Fokin vs Oral, 1993; it would have been nice if he'd played H Sax as well. Btw, I found surprisingly few puns/jokes on this player's page - "When he takes a bath, is that called Oral Hygiene?" and that's pretty much it. Speaking of the other guy, it's a pity they don't have Short-Cummings on the database, since according to chessbase this game has actually been played in 1977. |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <Crowaholic> I think it's a question of context. In one cryptic crossword that I do regularly a clue like 'c + apes' is typical -- I'd have spotted it at once there. Here, I didn't. Anyway, it was the acid/etching clue that stumped a lot of people on that one, it seems. Either way, Stonehenge solved it brilliantly. I was still stuck on the initial letters and looking for players with names like Eames and James ... 'chessgames' never crossed my mind. Belated round of applause for <Henge>, OK? |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: "Pavlov says it's all right ..."
- Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> - <Speaking of the other guy, it's a pity they don't have Short-Cummings on the database, since according to chessbase this game has actually been played in 1977.> I have similarly ambiguous feelings about Orr-Knott.
BTW, both Oral and Cummings have (tenuous) links to the (currently still unsolved) clue #46: Oral was born on Dec 24th and Cummings echoes the word 'upcoming' in the clue. |
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| Dec-21-08 | | crawfb5: Well done on #49 -- having read more by and about Pavlov than probably anyone else on this site, I am a bit disappointed to have been asleep when it was posted. Sigh. In a related vein, it was once said of the American behaviorist John B. Watson that he saw "salvation in salivation." :-) |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <crawfb5> I have much the same attitude to Marcel Duchamp, and I never even saw the clue depicting him. Part of my MA thesis - a small part - was about Pavlov, though. I'd rather read Luria, if we're talking Russian psychologists. |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Welcome aboard, you young hobo. |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <mack> I'd have thought you'd say "Checkers is for the prime minister" rather than "checkers is for tramps". But where's the difference, when you get down to it, eh? |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> - <combinations and chemistry...> Funnily enough, three of my 4 wins (so far - heh) in the competition were chemically assisted -- as in familiarity with the periodic table rather than being off my face on drugs. Although that might have played a part as well.
But <chess lore> - I don't really have very much - has played no part at all. It's strictly words, numbers, puns, and chemicals. Pretty much business as usual, I guess. |
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Dec-21-08
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> where is <mack's> post? I can't see it. HI MACK
<Dom>!! At this minute, you are ahead of the dastardly <allergic to turtles> to win a <PRESTIGIOUS AND COVETED CAISSAR> for best written post.... I think you should vote for yourself to "seal the deal." I believe Frogs are faster than Turtles and Seals.
Mrs. Animals |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Having won a subscription, <mack>'s gaff is open again. You'll find his little cries of delight over there. I left a message for him here first, then I remembered he'd be bound to be lollygagging over the syllabub in his own newly excavated drawing room. |
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Dec-21-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>!! You are now way in front of that <cursed turtle>, and I think the voting may already be closed.... I submitted your "Wouldn't it be easier to put the whole place on stilts?" post as <evidence> of your postity crispness. YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER TROPHY for your crowded mantle, to go with the <Posh Updated Bleeding Howard Staunton (can't be bad) chess set> you already garnered!! (can you fit a chess set on a mantle?) |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Did Barack Obama get where he is today by "voting for himself"? A gentleman, I'm told, casts his vote for the opposition. In case they're humiliated by a heavy loss and have one whacked. And I don't particularly want to have one whacked.
Eh?
Oh, and congrats to <Woody> on his <eponymous Caissar>. Of course, some of us on this side of the pond know that "Woody Woodpusher" was the name of a columnist with Chess Magazine. I think this is a case of independent invention, like Newton and Leibniz with <calories>. After all, I didn't know that Domdaniel was a big bad wizard character in some warcraft-style fantasy game, did I? Strictly speaking, a domdaniel ("a magician's underwater castle") is a place, not a person. In fact <Frogspawn> is more of a domdaniel than I am. I'm just the Daniel: this here is the Dom. So feathers off to Woody, and I hope he doesn't get plucked this Christmas. Unless he wants to, of course. |
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Dec-21-08
| | Domdaniel: "But you don't really care for music, do ya?"
Or, as we say it in Chessic: V Muzikantova vs I Fuksikova, 1994 Wish I could add a Hallelujah ... |
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Dec-22-08
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well played <domo>!! CONGRATULATIONS on your new <coveted and prestigious Caissar> Award!! You can set it up on your new <Howard hms123 Staunton Chess Board>!! |
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| Dec-22-08 | | Woody Wood Pusher: Hey <Dom> Congratulations on your Caissar Award! Now you and I can frequent all the exclusive nightclubs and get paid fof doing so! <Of course, some of us on this side of the pond know that "Woody Woodpusher" was the name of a columnist with Chess Magazine.> I didn't know that! My inspiration was solely derived from Woody Wood Pecker, http://www.soloimagen.net/public/di... We need to rally all possible support and get <JFQ> the <funniest> award, she deserves it by far the most. |
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Dec-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <Woody> Cheers. Of course, yeah, our Jessica deserves prizes galore for being funniest, quickest-wittedest, lateralistest, brightest and bestest. I'm sure she could solve those measly little competition clues too, if she bothered. JFQ as 'most valuable player'? |
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Dec-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Following a typically skewed chain of thought (well, *I* call it thinking), I came up with the notion that Ed Trice might be the solution to #46, the clue that has stumped everyone. My reasons - involving Gothic chess, creativity, anagrams, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and Mister Ed the talking horse, have been explained in the Kibitzer Caff. I didn't know it was 'hip' to hang out there until I noticed your recent visit. Thanks for keeping this old 'square' abreast of things. Abreast ... turkey ... the Turk ... Ajeeb ... um, 'scuse me a moment ... |
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Dec-22-08
| | Domdaniel: Must be going blind. I misread this one -- R Leather vs Lasker, 1889 -- as 'Leather vs Lasher'. No, don't ask why I was looking in the first place. There are some ... *interesting* ... player names out there, is all. |
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| Dec-22-08 | | Ragh: <Hey, 'Argh' is an anagram of Ragh. > These are the anagrams for <domdaniel>. demand oil
add lomein
laid demon
load denim
domain led
old maiden
die almond
aim noodle
damn oldie
el diamond
Now all we need is someone to put these into perspective, i.e. write a story connecting these word-pairs. ;) |
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Dec-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <Ragh> Been done. One nameless kibitzer said "Die, old man" to me. Another said I was an "idle nomad" which I liked so much I took it over for personal use. And there's one anagram that, last time I checked, failed to pass CG's naughty-word filters. It's the name of a small town in Canada, and an artificial male member. We'll call it a 'bilbo'. And I am <a mean bilbo> ... Speaking of the naughty filters, I found something strange: This -- B Born vs B Arkhangelsky, 2007 -- has a nice Christmassy feel to it, doesn't it? This one, I'm not so sure about: F Artz vs T Born, 1990 |
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Dec-22-08
| | Domdaniel: <Ragh> As it happens, I'm a big fan of that kind of writing -- such as novels based on anagrams or poems based on acrostics. One technical term is 'aleatory' - the French writer Raymond Roussel not only wrote absurdly complicated stories based on bad puns, but then wrote a book ('Comment J'Ecrit Certains de mes Livres'*) explaining his method. The Surrealists loved him -- but he wanted to be a proper writer like his hero Jules Verne, and said he found surrealism "un peu obscur". This, from a man who traveled the world without leaving his caravan; who wrote 'Impressions of Africa' without having seen any; and who named a section 'The Column which, licked until the tongue bleeds, cures jaundice'. I believe he also played chess -- possibly with Marcel Duchamp -- but no games are known. <mack>'s forum - a sort of shrine to surrealism which opens and closes randomly like an umbrella -- at one time had a running narrative based on 'domdaniel' anagrams. There are a lot of the buggers. * = jaki sposób napisal niektóre ze swoich ksiazek |
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| Dec-22-08 | | achieve: Hi <Dom> - I even forgot to vote and *still*, you won the Caissar... I don't know what the heck is wrong with CG lately, but at least they got this one right. They serve at lee.
Thee most by far.
And away.
Best Wishes as 2008 draws to a close, 'Me Ol' Flower'. |
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