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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 639 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-15-10    Annie K.: <hms> yep, I saw that too. Heh. Hooray to quick Google indexing (of that forum). ;) I suppose Google Masters would be the Klu Hunt equivalent of Spacebar Masters...? Dec-15-10    Annie K.: <Nako> Congrats, btw! ;) Dec-15-10    NakoSonorense: <hms> No problem. <Annie> Thanks! =) Dec-15-10    OhioChessFan: <dak: you mean that someone asked for help at some other forum? Yeah well, it is within the rules of the game obviously but its a bit.. It's just like doing crosswords and if you don't instantly know a word you grab the dictionary.> Yeah, there's some issues involved. I'm sure I'm not the only thinking about that lately. But such is life. Dec-15-10    Annie K.: Well, think I'll be turning in... <Dom> happy hunting! ;) Dec-15-10    OhioChessFan: Wow. That was quick. I tried "Limper" and by the time the page came back with no players, you'd solved it. Dec-15-10    Domdaniel: Phew. Got one. I had Mr Sick in mind before when we talked about players with the mostest. Meanwhile, those numbers ... I'll just say that the 12th root of 2 is mysteriously missing from the database ... Dec-15-10    SamAtoms1980: I had time to put in "Cripple" in the minute or two that one stayed up. Dec-15-10    OhioChessFan: I have a list of 4 mostest players. Dec-15-10    Domdaniel: And it's musical. I bet Niels knows it. Chromatic scales and well-tempered claviers. Like me, now. Dec-15-10    Domdaniel: According to my computer, there is no gid. It's an itheist. Dec-15-10    MostlyAverageJoe: Hey, congrats on #27. Could you please solve #23? I'll be home from work in an hour and if that thing is still out there, I'll probably get sucked into trying to get it ... It is pretty much guaranteed to be a premium prize... Dec-16-10    dakgootje: Congrats on getting your pride restored by solving at least 1 clue this year dom ;) Dec-16-10    hms123: <Dom> I am glad you got a win. I thought a <microhertz> was a small car that one rented (hired?) at the airport. Dec-16-10    crawfb5: <H> No, a microhertz is a minor injury. I have decided to write a pun-filled rap song and sing it for Doreen on Christmas. I'm going to call it Rap Puns Hell. <Dom> I actually wrote a post last night when I saw you'd finally nailed one, but I guess I was so tired I forgot to actually complete the process. I had some crazy ideas that of course all turned out wrong. Looks like CG had us all working for scale. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: I see my musical tip held up. Oh well. Tone deaf me, but I know a 12th root when I see one. Congrats to <druid> who cracked the thing. I *like* having an unsolved clue around. It's how things were meant to be, not this flash bang wallop stuff. Not that I'm complaining. Dec-16-10    hms123: <crawfb5> I would love to hair it myself. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <back on czar/tsar ...> <Annie> I don't think this is quite the same as s/z pronunciation. 'cz' is very odd in English - but common in Polish, and a few other Slavic languages that use Roman alphabets. I suppose 'czar' came from Polish, and 'tsar' was a transliteration of Cyrillic. Anyway, 'z' is the voiced version of 's', as you know. Normal linguistic laziness - universal in all known languages - would tend to use 'z' after 'd' (as in dzechiel) and 's' after 't' (as in tsaritsyn). If English was writ phonetically, we'd write 'dogz' and 'cats'. <hms> On further vague reflection, I think the media use 'czar' when talking about a 'drug czar' or a 'weather czar', and 'tsar' when a figure in Russian history is mentioned. Or Putin. Dec-16-10    hms123: <Dom> I think your instincts about the usage of <czar> and <tsar> are correct. That makes me historically accurate, but chessically less so. (I just noticed that the spell-checker doesn't like <tsar> above, or now either for that matter.) Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: CG's hint on #23 was pleasantly misleading. I wasn't the only one puzzled by this strange non-integer sequence with a geometric factor of the 12th root of 2 (and checking out Euler, Gauss, Galois, Hamilton and many other mathematicians). Most number sequences are integers only, and most of the rest aren't rounded off to four decimal places. Mathematically odd, until I hit on the music connection. Not Bach again, surely? I was just too tired to take the final step of translating sequence into piano keys/notes into chess moves. Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: Honey, you are my tshining tsar, don't you go away. Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: I think everyone's life will be enriched if they check the song out. Magnificient. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Vp... Dec-16-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: I suppose 'czar' came from Polish, and 'tsar' was a transliteration of Cyrillic.> Close, but not quite. In Polish, 'czar' means a spell or a charm. English 'tzar' in Polish is just 'car'. In Russian, there is a single letter for the same sound that is represented as 'c' in Polish and 'ts/tz/cz' in English. See here: http://translate.google.com/?file=#... for correct spelling and reasonably correct pronunciation of both Polish and Russian designations of Nick the IInd's job. Personally, I disagree with Google's phonetic spelling (tsar') - the first sound should be more like hard 'tz', not soft 'ts'. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <MAJ> OK ... but 'ts' is the standard transliteration of the Cyrillic letter. And 'cz' is odd in English. But then that sound is odd in English, as a way of starting a word (tsetste, tsunami, tsigane ... from three different parts of the world). There's also czapka and czardas, but even those are nonstandard spellings. Russians *do* prefers voiced consonants, on the whole, even though 'ts' is more 'natural' (unvoiced) than 'tz'. Hmm. Trying to think of a Russian word - apart from Dom - that I could write in English, I came up with 'KOMETA'. Which would be 'gomedya' if my voiced theory was true. BTW, I note you've joined Quythulg on 11, but he's jumped to the top of the Chessbookie game. Dom krasiva. Dec-16-10    Annie K.: <Dom> congrats!! Both on getting #27 and going most of the way on #23. :) <craw> & <hms> your puns have been acknowledged with the appropriate groans. ;p <Dom> MAJ is right. The tz/ts/cz duos are <not> actually consonant duos; they are an attempt to represent <a single sound> for which many other languages have a single letter (as I said, it's 'c' in Hungarian). 'Dz' is, similarly, a single sound, a different one (which doesn't exist in Hungarian at all). Conversely, Hungarian uses 3(!) letters to represent a sound which doesn't really exist in the language: 'dzs' (a combination of 'd' and 'zs' which is the representation of the single sound French j) - which sound is simply represented by 'j' in English, as in 'jewel' or one of the pronunciations of 'g' - as in 'giraffe'. I think my point is ;) that just because a given language doesn't have a single letter dedicated to representing a certain sound, and therefore uses some combination to approximate it, doesn't mean that sound is <actually> a conflation of two consonants. There are many "valid" sounds lacking single-consonant representation in most languages. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 639 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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