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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 629 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-04-10    Domdaniel: Well, um, <empathy is essential to any form of intelligence worth having>, as somebody almost said. You can always tell yourself the TV-creatures are just photons. Works for me. The trick is *not* to take the next step of seeing people as clumps of molecules. Or things. They're humemes. Dec-04-10    Travis Bickle: If you drop the right amount of acid you can see the molecules. ; P Dec-04-10    Annie K.: <I'll say it again, though I can't recall saying it before: < Empathy is essential to any kind of intelligence worth having.>> Origin: Kibitzer's Café Easier just not to allocate time for staring at one of those idiot boxes to start with. I have enough to do without that, as is. :) Dec-04-10    Domdaniel: <Travis> If you drop the right amount of acid you can *talk* to the molecules. Some of 'em are quite chatty, though the heavy metals tend to repeat themselves. Dec-05-10    Open Defence: take a gander at this http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnesh... Dec-05-10    achieve: "One of the things about Art is, you give people an excuse to take some time, to be quiet, and pay attention to something... And, maybe under the guise of enjoyment, think about important things in Life." From: Bluegrass Journey (in this clip featuring Tony Rice - Shenandoah) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsww... (I actually was looking this morning for a cover of a Dylan song, Little Twist of Fate, and on my youtube journey encoutered this gem, including quotation; which I now am spamming over friends' forums. I still sometimes associate 'Dom' with 'Dylan', you see...) Dec-05-10    Stonehenge: <Art is simply the continuation of religion by other means>. http://www.athensexchange.com/artic... Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: <Niels> Is that the "He woke up, the room was bare" song? *Simple* Twist of Fate, unless he did a Little version too. A saxophone somewhere far-off played. Dec-05-10    achieve: <Dom> I'm 100% sure you're right, it's Simple TOF, not little... The youtube joyride must have made head spin. I even remember the lyric you cite now, remarkable... Now, having confirmed the correction, how about...? Dec-05-10    achieve: Acksherly this is "advanced" guitar playing by Tony Rice, really blew me away, since these top musicians from the Bluegrass/Country genre have flown mostly outside the continental airspace. I had many discoveries already in talks and exchanges with Boomie. No exchange sacs of course! We both "gained" material... Dec-05-10    achieve: <Stonehenge: <Art is simply the continuation of religion by other means>. http://www.athensexchange.com/artic...; That quotation doesn't quite cut it, yet an understandable "misconception" imo. - John Lennon Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: <Niels> I like that. I have a mild dislike of many of the things that people do with acoustic guitars, to the point that my heart sinks when I see somebody produce one. But that's only because most of the chord-strum stuff they do is so awful. Good acoustic guitar music is beautiful. The insane magic of the fret hand and the plectrum hand, each on its separate journey, utterly apart yet always together. Is this why the human brain has two hemispheres, to make such music? I saw him wince twice. You probably understand why - some subtly wrong note, some dissonance in the timing, some piece of concentration that didn't quite work? Me, I have no idea. Dec-05-10    achieve: Some sharp observations and reasoning... I'm out in a bit, but allow me to strum out 2 things you expertly address: indeed, there's strumming and strumming, and I am a lousy strummer, I'll be honest, I'm constantly "wincing" when I strum and try to sing "across it", as it were, but what Rice does needs a third hemisphere, a holographic creation through magnetic electric currents? You'll have a better idea on that, and do not forget the heart-brain induction researched since the early 90s, I think... And it is correct that even the most prodigously talented performers always have to, and admit, the really good ones, that they had a number of occasions in a performance that it didnt come out right at all, and they had to do some "repair-work" -- isn't that great? Oscar Peterson disclosed this in his auto-bio, when recalling his sessions whith *his idols* - and I'm talking the tip of the musical capstone: Tatum, Lester Young, Ella, Coleman Hawkins (whom he especially mentions as a prime example of the painful urge for perfection..). Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: Mr L. Cohen, on Jeanne d'Arc: <I saw her wince I saw her cry I saw the glory in her eye. Myself, I long for love and light - But must it come so cruel and oh, so bright?> A third hemisphere, eh? It might have to extend into the 4th dimension, but I should probably try to grow one anyways... I think the prodigiously talented usually have some quantum of humility, but the wince isn't a performance. It's a sort of unconscious nod to one's distance from perfection. Better to wince than to look smug, at any rate. I am, of course, an idiot on all musical topics. Dec-05-10    hms123: <Domme> <I am, of course, an idiot on all musical topics.> But a wizard at olde spellings. Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: *blushe* Dec-05-10    achieve: <I think the prodigiously talented usually have some quantum of humility, but the wince isn't a performance. It's a sort of unconscious nod to one's distance from perfection.> More like a "nod" to one's closeness to perfection, I'd say. I'll try and look up the passage from the Peterson bio to convey the tone and description he uses there. closeness = distance Dec-05-10    hms123: <Dom> That's funny. You don't look <bluishe>. http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exh... Dec-05-10    achieve: <but the wince isn't a performance> But it shows itself specifically *during* a performance. A "daredevil enterprise" called improvisation, is another term used by Oscar to describe the true spirit and nature of improv during a concert. Dec-05-10    Domdaniel: *bulshe*, as in *bulshe et decorum est*. A simple typo, is all. A radish is not necessarily reddish. Dec-06-10    Open Defence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnesh... Dec-06-10    Domdaniel: Innaresting thing, a wince. A sort of grimace without bared teeth, briefly pulling back the closed lips and frowning at the same time. It can be conscious or unconscious, intentional or unintentional ... though an expert poker player (or an expert woman) will always see the difference. We use a subtly different set of muscles when trying to represent something, as opposed to just feeling it. That's if we *have* muscles. Dec-07-10    OhioChessFan: <Ohio: <It might have been exciting in War of the Worlds to give the invaders alien corn that was genetically engineered to destroy them.>> <Annie: It's been done already - or something too similar - in the original ST episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles'. > Yes, well, someday I'm going to have to watch an episode. I did happen to see the newest movie last summer, which was the first time I'd seen either a TV or movie episode. Dec-07-10    OhioChessFan: <But what I wanna know is, why *wash-pot*? Is a wash pot an object of physical disgust, like a toilet, or an object of envy, like a gold-plated bathroom?> Sort of made me wonder if it was something like a thunder jar. After looking at it, it appears to me that it's simply a wash bowl as Annie said. God isn't beyond using some pretty frosty language to describe His objects of derision. One that many people miss is this: Isa. 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. And most people think of the rags they have out in the garage covered with oil. But 3000 years ago, oil extraction wasn't too advanced, so the rags aren't filthy in that regard. They are in fact menstrual cloths. My minister once discussed that and suggested if people knew what the verse was really saying, they might not cite it so often. Dec-07-10    OhioChessFan: I love them all <Odie> Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 629 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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