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 643 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: <dak> 0.35% turns up in the stats page, as the % of annotated games, of which there are 2009. It isn't the 35th 35-move game from 2009, however. Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: Nor the 35th annotated game, La Bourdonnais vs McDonnell, 1834 Dec-17-10    Annie K.: Ah, congrats. :) Dec-17-10    Annie K.: It ain't any of Pelletier's games either... ;s Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: Missed an hour or so there ... hadda eat, yanno? ... and this time I didn't bring my laptop with me ... havta act human, yanno? Nose and toes the same way goes. Any developments? Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: I suppose ... if CG knew who was going to win the one *after* #34, the answer would be <chancho> ...?? Dec-17-10    Annie K.: Nach, other than reported. ;) <Nose and toes the same way goes.> Darn. We're not allowed to look around? :s Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: <Nose and toes the same way goes.> I *think* it's Clifford D. Simak ... but it might be Sheckley, Silverberg ... some SF guy, anyhoo... "Papasian appeared disguised as a human being. He checked to see that everything was in order. 'Nose and toes the same way goes', he murmured to himself." Or something. ;) Dec-17-10    Annie K.: Yeah, I figured the context would be something like that... a mnemonic, obviously. A rule-of-whatever-passes-for-thumb. So, you mean, blame the writer, not you? ;) Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: Nah. I use it every day. Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: It was Sheckley. And Papazian, not Papasian (phonemic memory voicing failure in s/z module?)... http://nielsenhayden.com/makingligh... Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: "He checked quickly to make sure his head was on right." Doesn't every chessplayer? Dec-17-10    Annie K.: <Nah. I use it every day.> I only saw that quote about four or five times so far... ;) Anyhoo, I think looking around is still allowed... just don't let'em catch you at it? Thanks for the link. :) That's one Sheckley book I don't have. Dec-17-10    Annie K.: Why even check... ;p Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: <MAJ> You know I could strangle you now, don't you? I never owned a copy of Mr Fischer's tome, but I made a list of his game titles anyway, just in case. And it's about 12 hours since I saw the 21/60 connection. I'd gone back to 20/7 on the grounds that there are 20 opening moves, of which one scores 35% ... and ... Why, oh lord, why? Heh. Congrats on the solo lead thing. They'll exclude you for this year soon... Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: It's funny, but under other circumstances that would have been one of the *easy* ones. It was odd seeing Babson cracked in under 5 minutes while Fischer-60 took all day. Not to take anything away from MAJ's achievement. He is our Newton, seeing further because he stands on the shoulders of, um, giants... Dec-17-10    Annie K.: <MAJ> way to go! :) <Dom> heh... On second thought, <Why even check> can be answered by the mountaineers' axiom: 'because it's there'. ;) Dec-17-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <Congrats on the solo lead thing. They'll exclude you for this year soon> Thanks. I just googled "bobby fischer memorable games 21" and 2 clicks later there it was... Alas, I already have that book (with author's dedication, to boot). Hopefully, CG will agree to send me a T-shirt instead. Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: Oy. I'm not unhappy with this result, apart from the fact that there is now no ongoing clue. I had the basic elements of #34 a few minutes after it appeared, but I was busy ... and later when I tried to attack it properly I went off on arcane walks. So it goes. Which pays me back for posting condescending messages in the Kib Caff ... like, look at the ideas you haven't even tried yet, suckers (but I have)... and where somebody is always liable to blurt out a really useful hint. Out of the mouths of babes and Elvises. Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> -- < A rule-of-whatever-passes-for-thumb.> Two passages from Charles Yu, who is described as "sweetly geeky" and may be the future Sheckley. You'd like him. <I don't have many friends. TAMMY, I guess. Her soul is code, is a fixed set of instructions, and although you might think having a relationship with someone like that would get boring after a while, it doesn't. TAMMY's AI is good. Really good. She's smarter than I am by a mile, by an order of magnitude. In all the time I've known her, TAMMY's never said the same thing to me twice, which is more than you can ask from most human friends.> and <Time machine repair guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one-night stand with something cute a couple of years ago. Not human exactly. Humanish. Close enough that she looked awesome with her shirt off. She was a good kisser. I just hope that was her mouth.> Dec-17-10    Annie K.: Heh - very relevant selections. I wasn't really complaining, anyway. :) Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: The all-time four-year klu-hunt standings now look like this: 1. MostlyAverageJoe: 12 2. SwitchingQuylthulg: 11 3= Domdaniel: 9 3= Aphasia: 9 3=BuddyRevell: 9 Apart from MAJ, few of these have moved much this year. Best new mover award goes to acirce, up from 5 to 8. Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: Of course, it's a game of one-and-a-bit halves ... Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: ... and there's crawf's leap from 2 to 5 ... Dec-17-10    Domdaniel: <A> Thought you might like the taster quotes. Did I mention that the book is called 'How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe'? I did. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 643 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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