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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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 523 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-17-09    Domdaniel: <tech> You had a point back then. The whole history of online talk forums, back to bulletin boards and whatever century they evolved in, was centred on staying on topic. It was vital for cohesion purposes, and to avoid anarchy. But no more. Some kind of self-selection works here. I don't think anyone would hang around for long if they weren't interested in chess ... so we get a lot of chessic stuff, plus the miscellaneous thoughts of people who are into chess. It works. Sep-17-09    twinlark: This place is unique. May it live long and prosper. \\// Sep-17-09    Domdaniel: <crawf> Thank you ... a 'valance' or 'valence' is a hanging fold of drapery (as is 'swag' in some dialects - but in others its the loot a thief makes off with, and in Australian it's what a swagman carries - though a swagman can also be a burglar's accomplice...) Hmm. I wonder if there's a common origin here: thief grabs a curtain to wrap his loot in. Liberace returns home. - Shriek! My gold plate! My diamante Elvis! My velvet valance! Not to be confused with valence/valency as in chemical bonds. Although he may have known something about chemical bonds as well. As for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ... Westerns don't get much more classic than this John Ford yarn about the Nietzschean eternal return of the gunslinger and the slung. It takes place in the town of Shinbone, thus pointing us all to our origin as meat and destination in the boneyard. Doesn't 'Asgard' mean 'boneyard'? Hmm. And didn't Liberace win a libel case against a journalist who described him as 'mincing'? Sep-17-09    Domdaniel: This -- http://everything2.com/title/Speed+... -- is fun. It's also the downright weirdest definition of 'positional chess' I've ever seen. Sep-17-09    Domdaniel: On *untranslatable words* (hygge, Weltschmerz ... huh?? Even I know those two) from the same site. Makes the rather innaresting points that words which are claimed to be essentially untranslatable tend to tie in with national self-image. Which dimly reminds me of some Filipino debate a while ago ... Barabbas, wasn't it? Sep-17-09    Domdaniel: Yes, true, a link might help: http://everything2.com/title/Words+... Sep-18-09    Open Defence: what if the Beatles were Irish ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjH... Sep-18-09    Domdaniel: <what if the Beatles were Irish ? > Weren't they? I've always regarded Liverpool and Dublin as part of the same continuum ... not quite Irish, not quite English either. As Paul McCartney shoulda sung, "Give Londinium back to the Romans ... give Orkney back to the Picts ... give Belfast back to Dalriada ... and you'll still have the same old conflicts." Sep-18-09    Domdaniel: <Deffi> Picture yourself on a boat, begorrah. OK, Mr Zimmerman is funny, if not as funny as his brother Bob. I feared it was going to be the American meaning of the term 'Irish' - which really means Irish-American and diverges hugely from the original. But it ain't bad. Be the hokey. Muhammad Ali was Irish, btw. At least he turned up here looking for his ancestors recently. The town of Ennis turned out en fete to great him, and everyone had a rip-roarin' whale of a time. Be the hokey and the cokey too. Sep-18-09    Domdaniel: <If Bob Dylan was Irish ...> "And the only sound that's left After all the turf is mowed Is Cindy O'Rella sweepin' up The old bog road." Sep-18-09    Domdaniel: <If Bob Dylan was French ...> "They're selling daguerrotypes of the guillotine They're painting the passports bleu The sailing parlours are filled with beauties Each with a TB pneu ..." Sep-18-09    Open Defence: heau heau heau Sep-18-09    TheAlchemist: <If Bob Dylan was Irish ...> Eejit wind? Sep-18-09    Domdaniel: <Alchemist> -- <Eejit Wind> I think I may have been responsible for a 'song' with that very title once. Don't remind me. <Eejit wind Blowin' on O'Connell Street down past the Spike Eejit wind Blowin' thru the pedals on your bike ... We're a right pair o' eejits, babe, And we still think we can do whate'er we loike ...> Sep-19-09    jessicafischerqueen: Happy <MICROSOFT: GUTLESS VENDORS OF EVIL> Week!! Sep-19-09    Domdaniel: <GUTLESS VENDORS OF EVIL> If an entity has no gut, then what it excretes is pretty much the same as what it eats. Or is that a stomach? Making it the sort of thing you'd want to be eaten by, if you had no choice ... - O Mighty Microsoft! If you kill us, don't eat us. If you eat us, don't digest us. Just let us pass harmlessly through thy mighty gut ... Also Evil is better when sold through vending machines at a modest profit than when randomly inflicted on the innocent. Of course, no-one is innocent. Sep-19-09    Open Defence: give us this day your indigestion ? Sep-19-09    jessicafischerqueen: What about <Innocent IV>? Of course, there was the much lesser known, and unfortunately named Pope <Guilty as Sin III> as well... And the even lesser known Pope <Drunk as a Priest> who subsisted entirely on a <Diet of Wurms>. "Digesting, England, by the pound..." Sep-19-09    Open Defence: the Bishops are to blame... its the luck of the draw when their colours oppose... but most cant keep their drawers on... Sep-19-09    Open Defence: our Chief Bull Frog still manages to find innovations that befuddle the engines Korchnoi vs D Fridman, 2008 Sep-19-09    Domdaniel: <Jess> - <Of course, there was the much lesser known, and unfortunately named Pope <Guilty as Sin III> as well...> Heh. What about that ambiguous character, <Limbo Bimbo Spam> ...? Delicious with *Papal Mountain Oysters* straight from the Papal Bull. Sep-19-09    jessicafischerqueen: As a Canadian, I got (and appreciated) the "Oyster" joke- but I'm lost on the other reference. That better be a real Pope <Dom>. What's the explanation on that one? Also, since we're on the topic, did you know that the great <Pope Gregory the Great> was regularly referred to as "Gregory the Not Actually So Great" by his friends? Sep-19-09    jessicafischerqueen: Also, did you know that the whimsical <hyggehog> is a popular pet in Canada? Sep-19-09    Domdaniel: <Jess> Okay, maybe it's just a *teeny* bit cryptic: un peu obscur, as I think Roussel said about Surrealism. It's, firstly, a line from a Capt Beefheart song: "Me and my girl named Bimbo - Limbo - Spam ..." Limbo is a dance and the Papal connection. There used to be a big theological bunfight about where the souls of unbaptized babies went: Limbo was invented to cover the gap. Then they realized how silly it was and quietly axed it. Spam is a loop and a pythonesque coda. And where you go if you hold maps upside down. Is it true about the great care taken by hyggehog breeders? Now some Dane will turn up and tell me that 'hygge' is the sound of somebody sneezing into a herring.... A crude translation is: <Comfy and safe/ Tucked up for the night. "Mummy! My Teddy's stopped breathing!" Click. It's alright, dear.> Sep-19-09    jessicafischerqueen: Spam upside down would be "wads", not "maps." And "maps" upside down would be "sdaw." I know this for a fact, because I just confirmed by turning my computer upside down. However, I couldn't type without also turning over on to my back, putting me also upside down. Consequently- and tragically- I therefore still had to do the "mental calculation" to divine "wads", because my "shortcuts" canceled each other out. And all because I can't type upside down like <Mozart> could. Bloody <Mozart>. Everyone thinks he was so smart. He didn't even get his "O-Levels." I don't know any <Beefheart>. I knew about the three words though. "Bimbo" was one of my favorite Disney films. But I was disappointed to see that they subsequently cut this film for some reason- my favorite scene was deleted. This is where hunters start killing all of the talking cartoon deer, and <Bimbo's mother> says "Bimbo- don't go in to the forest." Pretty sure on this. Oddly, the <Canadian hyggehog> cannot actually "breed" in the traditional sense. They employ rhizomes, which makes them a garden pest, as you might imagine. But the kids can't get enough of them. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 523 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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