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 641 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: I mean, couldn't the LORD have sent them a text of the Geneva Convention? Urged them to take prisoners and stop the slaying? Asked them to let Red Cross/Crescent parcels through? I suppose civil behaviour has to evolve slowly, including the rules of war conduct. And winners always go on a spree of nastiness. Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: <And thirdly because of all the slaying. Why a deity should want his followers to be quite so bloodthirsty is beyond me.> The Ephramites should have been careful about their words, besides the pronunciation: Judges 12:1 The men of Ephraim called out their forces, crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head." I don't know where you stand on self defense, but at least some people believe it's reasonable to defend oneself with mortal force when threatened mortally. And "house" in that statement is not only talking about "Jephthah's own household". Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: <I mean, couldn't the LORD have sent them a text of the Geneva Convention? Urged them to take prisoners and stop the slaying? Asked them to let Red Cross/Crescent parcels through?> The Old Testament bloodshed has always been a problem for me. I admit it's not easy to look at God and think there was too much killing going on those days. However, when you read the OT, you see what happens when His people don't follow His commands to kill, and it's not pretty. Then again, the killing isn't pretty. I have to content myself that God doesn't answer to me, nor my ideas of what is just. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: Indeed. And maybe those guys *wanted* to be slain, because they just knew they'd awaken in the pleasure gardens of Baal. Tough old times. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <Klu Hunt Ruminations> Funny how CG's better ideas - ie, most of them - tend to go exponential, zooming into spaces never imagined by the admins. Nobody thought that analysis forums would sprout around team challenge games, for example. When the Klu Hunt started, I have the impression they thought many clues would sit there for days. They talked about hints in later clues, and about stumbling accidentally on the answer by checking random games. Don't think they anticipated Maj's hunt-themed arsenal, or Annie's knowledge of search methods, or even the fact that the games of Oliver Sick can be checked in 30 seconds ... And as for people posting queries elsewhere. Well, the responses were amusing. I've said this before. Chess players aren't necessarily very intelligent, and certainly not over-educated in general terms. But a subset of the folk on this site are among the smartest people anywhere. Dec-16-10    Annie K.: Hear, hear. ;) On a different note, I just hope none of the klus will feature a chicken. :s Dec-16-10    dakgootje: The downside of which is that at other, less intelligent, sites I would've actually solved some clues.. ;) *moon cray & wine* :D Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <dak> But here you earn the respect of your peers. I'm not sure why anyone would want to be respected by a bunch of ermine-clad urinators, but there you go. ;) *gin plums and chips* Dec-16-10    dakgootje: You hit the head on the nail deardom, I do like to have the respect of my pears. Besides, here I learn new words! uhm *nuts caribou and coins* There has to be a game in this - if only I knew the rules. Maybe it can be Word-Calvinball. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: 1. & we no acrimony? 2. spinach dumplings Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: A cab duct ruins onions. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> Why did the chicken cross the Moebius strip? To get to the other, um ... Dec-16-10    dakgootje: 3. red mackerels Duct tape a running cat with mushrooms and a nice chianti. Dec-16-10    Annie K.: OK, you two have managed to completely lose me. :p Except for the Moebius strip. :) What I meant was just that if there's a chicken in a klu, then the klu klux... and, um, well, that gets political. :s Now I'm out to get a pizza and head home, but I still have the IPhone, so behave yourselves. ;) Dec-16-10    dakgootje: That's alright. I am lost as well, so you are still really here hear! Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> Good clue. Now 'klu klux' is thought to be derived from Greek kyklos, or circle. So that brings us to pi, and it's post-decimal digits provide a gid: 1415927, rounded up. Or maybe Korchnoi vs E Chick, 1974 ... ? Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: Oy, I never even *saw* Polly until it was gone. And only 2 games to try ... That'll learn me to stop toying with Fritz and keep the top of a CG window open ... Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <shibboleth> I wonder what the phrase-du-jour is now in that part of the world. - Right, say "She brews Hebrew brown beer in Hebron and Beersheba" Dec-16-10    Annie K.: <dakkie> heh - glad to here that! ;) <Dom> sweet, um, we're not being, just a little, I mean, just the tiniest wee bit... like, um, obsessive about decryptions, or anything? Shirley not. ;) Hmmm, E Chick and then some Polly? Thinkin' ta pick up chicks, are yeh? Well, that'll wright learn ya... :p Btw, dunno about brown beer, but the local coffee, not-quite-incidentally called 'Elite', is certainly brown, and is one of the best brands to be found anywhere! :) Dec-16-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: Oy, I never even *saw* Polly until it was gone.> Here's a goodie for Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fi... Adds an ability to auto-reload a page at specified intervals, so you just need to keep the relevant part of the window visible somewhere. Or use Opera, which has the auto-reload. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: <MAJ> Thanks. Firefoxers have been telling me glowingly about such tricks for ages, but I only recently began to use it. And I think my limbic brain never really made it past Mac OS 5.1, or thereabouts. I've learned, gradually, to do stuff with various PC/Windows versions, and I'm a total novice where the Fox is concerned ... I'll try to master the goodie. By next year, maybe. Dec-16-10    Domdaniel: Anyway, others had the same complaint last night when I got to Oliver Sick rather quickly. And anyone checking Sick's games from the top would have beaten me, as I worked up from the bottom. But - yesterday's numeric exception aside - there's something wrong when every clue vanishes inside a minute. They're too easy. I'm allowed say that now that I got one (and reached joint 3rd on the all-time list -- 2 of you on 11 wins, 3 more of us on 9...) Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: Polly is my chamber maid. Dec-16-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: Anyway, others had the same complaint last night when I got to Oliver Sick rather quickly.> CG really should've used Rolf Sicker there. No way Oliver was the **most** debilitated, no ?-) Dec-16-10    OhioChessFan: Isn't it about time to round up some votes for Aneta? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 641 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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