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 630 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-08-10    Domdaniel: <Ohio> I accept your (and your minister's) interpretation. But doesn't that mean that "one who is unclean" is, well, a *woman*...? Oops. Dec-08-10    OhioChessFan: A woman during her menstrual period <is> unclean. Dec-08-10    Domdaniel: So that's why they used to throw their underwear at Elvis. Dec-08-10    Annie K.: <only 31.6 hours before the contest begins!> ;) This is a good time to go to your Menu Configuration Page and add a special shortcut to the clues page in the extras box (if you're using the menu...), like: Clues http: //www.chessgames.com/perl/clues (without the space after http:) Regards, Justin Case Dec-08-10    dakgootje: Will you believe I only found out about the menu configuration page today? Will you? WILL YOU?! HA! You naive fool! but you are right. Dec-08-10    Domdaniel: <Justin> Whatcha think I been doin' ...? Some other shortcuts are also prepped. I don't do it *all* in my head, yanno. 2007: no wins, and not for want of trying. 2008: 5 wins, on a roll, barred from winning any more. 2009: not so hot, 3 wins, one of them a fluke, and another involving a few minutes of panic when I found a prize page and discovered I was still barred from the year before. Luckily those nice admins got my message before any one else realized it was a Borges quote. Results to date: one Staunton chess set, one t-shirt, and about 2 years worth of free membership. Which I'll need to extend soon. Dec-08-10    Annie K.: <dakkie> shocking! ;p <Dom> heh. I trust you'll win some more membership months or years now. ;) The only reason I don't wanna buy myself a lifetime membership is that it would take some of the fun out of the Clue Hunt, the ChessBookie, and any other game that might come up (like the one-time Pun Contest). I akshly got one klu in 2007. Ah, the good old days, before the programmers took over... ;p Dec-08-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> The single easiest klu *ever* was a pic of Marcel Duchamp (demonstrating his roto-reliefs, which I'd have recognized even without his face attached). Did I get it? Nope. I was still happily celebrating my solution to the previous klu, which had stood for about two days ... alertitude is the key. And 06:00 refreshes. Dec-08-10    Annie K.: Oh well. Can't get'em all anyway. Just enjoy, and avail yourself of a lot of refreshments. ;) You're lucky, anyhoo - I actually have to work for some hours every weekday too... or at least pretend to... criminal, that. :s Dec-08-10    OhioChessFan: <Will you believe I only found out about the menu configuration page today? Will you? WILL YOU?! HA! You naive fool! > Embarrassing. Err, what's a menu configuration page? Dec-09-10    dakgootje: The one miss Annie linked: Menu Configuration Page <dom> If, by clue #5, you are barred from solving any further ones, then you are allowed to secretly hint me to the correct pages. It is a very special little-known rule that you are allowed to nudge me into the right directions. <annie> I got one in 2008! We shall cherish our sole victories for ever :D Dec-09-10    dakgootje: Actually, ever since I changed them, I click on Chessbookie when I want to go to Chessforums. Perhaps it is where Chessforums used to be. Or perhaps I am going blind. Dec-09-10    OhioChessFan: <<annie> I got one in 2008! We shall cherish our sole victories for ever > I came close a few times. I will eternally regret HYFIN last year, which I thought was a list of chemical abbreviations. I had made a mental note to have a little chart handy, and forgot. Not 5 minutes after the prize was claimed, I noticed a real life dictionary right next to my computer. And I discovered that each letter did have the associated chemical weight in the definition. Spent 2 hours with the answer within 2 feet of me. Alas. Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMUk... Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: <Ohio> HYFIN should never have lasted so long. I had the right idea after about 20 mins, but made some trivial calculation error and went off down other avenues. Next day (!) I tried the periodic table again, and it worked. I was still dancing jigs and stuff when the easiest-ever Duchamp pic flashed up, and I missed it. Good old Yttrium. Or is it Ytterbium? Memo: add Periodic Table to my stand-by resources ... Meta-hint: look out for anything indicating a string of numbers with initial '1' -- Hydrogen (1), Neon (10), Sodium (11) ... Roman numerals X, C, M ... e/2 ... etc. Dec-09-10    dakgootje: Alternatively, you could try and think what kind of clues you would make as admin - based on knowledge of the previous years - find corresponding games and keep them around Justin Case. Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: <dak> Funnily enough, I *have* been making up my own clues ... Justin Case. I keep forgetting the answers, though. Dec-09-10    Annie K.: <Dom> note: Periodic Tables may be, uh, unclean or something. ;p I missed one klu by mere seconds in 2008, but it would have been a total fluke: it was a fantasy-genre looking pic, that reminded me of fantasy artist Boris Vallejo's style, so I was looking at Francisco Vallejo-Pons games. As it turned out, the klu was actually intended to reference something entirely different, but the game <was> in fact a Vallejo game, and I got to it just a few seconds too late... :s <dakkie: <<annie> I got one in 2008! We shall cherish our sole victories for ever :D>> Well, another year, another chance (or 64) - Hope is always jumpy. No, wait, I think I meant 'hope springs eternal'. ;) Dec-09-10    hms123: <Dom> Has it struck you that the whole Wikileaks cyber-war that is currently being waged around the world was "predicted" by SF writers years ago? The whole Iranian centrifuge virus is another example. We live in a very strange world that is about to get much stranger. Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: <hms> I made the same point in a RL conversation 20 minutes ago. "I was writing about this stuff in the 1980s", I said. "And I wasn't even the first." Sigh. It's all fruit loops, lately. Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> -- < Periodic Tables may be, uh, unclean or something> Heh. Only if you eat a mammal braised in milk off one, no? Dec-09-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> That was the Led Zep Swansong incident, wasn't it? I 'got' one last year by starting with '24' and looking for Bauer games (a TV series, m'lud, where Mr Bauer has 24 hours to save the world). The solution was Bauer vs Finegold, and the 24 referred to 24 karat gold ... Serendip roolz. Dec-09-10    hms123: <Dom> In that case, <cyber-jinx, you owe me a virtual soda>. Real-ly. Dec-09-10    Annie K.: Yeah, the present was sooo the future in the past. ;p <That was the Led Zep Swansong incident, wasn't it?> Yeppers. Wild coincidence. Yours too. :) <Heh. Only if you eat a mammal braised in milk off one, no?> Sounds worth a try - I recommend pork, to be sure. With bread, if it's Passover. ;) Justin Case Dec-09-10    OhioChessFan: <Annie> -- < Periodic Tables may be, uh, unclean or something> <dom: Heh. Only if you eat a mammal braised in milk off one, no? > Look how close you were! Ex. 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. 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