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 652 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: <Quylthulg> You're quite right. I *am* completely scatter-brained. Didn't <tpstar> also *solve* that first one? Hmmm ... Congrats on your Chessbookie success, btw. Dec-20-10    SwitchingQuylthulg: Thanks. Congrats on your Klu Hunt success - two wins is a heap this year for someone in our timezone... Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: So I'm not the only one a teeny bit paranoid about our timezone this year? That's a relief. The routine of -- wake up, see 3 more gone, wait 5 hours until America wakes up, see a couple more flash by, usually around chow time ... and sleep -- was starting to get to me. Mustn't grumble. After all, there are clueless children in the USA to think of. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: "We have heard the chimes at midnight..." Dec-20-10    hms123: <Dom> I sent an email to your old address (hotmail) just now. I wouldn't mind if you did <the e-dom-bot-dawg thing> from your new address when you get the time. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: <hms> Will do. I've been feeling mildly guilty for about two years, ever since Jess gave me your email address ... and I lost it. Dec-20-10    hms123: <Dom> I lose things all the time--especially when changing computers or email accounts. I have been thinking about writing you for a while now so there's plenty of guilt to go around. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: <hms> Never mind. I think I've sent it now. Four outgoing mails in a day: that must be a record ... Click. Buzz. OK, we can talk now ... Dec-20-10    hms123: <Dom> That was quick! It's here and briefly on its way back. More to come after I regain my compose-ure. Dec-20-10    Annie K.: <Dom> hey, sweet, you quite startled me with that mail (me <too>, apparently)! ;) I have a theory about the topic thereof (as I usually have one, or three...), so I'll prolly write it up when I get home. :) <Dom: <<Annie> G'day. Ra knows what kinds of hours you keep, but ain't ya supposed to be a couple of hours *ahead* of me? Yes, dear, I know it's not really measurable in hours.>> I haven't even <thought> that, rilly. :D <Is this the part of the day when you earn your shekels by turning cherubim into kerubok?> You posted that sometime before noon or so, right? :) I saw it earlier on a quick IPhone check-in, but I only start having the time to post about now. Nope, at that time I was asleep. I start work at 16:00 (or so ;p), so I usually get up around 15:00, except when I have to stock up on groceries or run some other errand, in which case I get up a bit earlier. Then, at work, things are fairly busy (or, at least, there are too many people about to surf much) ;) until about 19:00-20:00, after which I can usually catch up on the reading, and even do some posting. I head home either at 23:00 or 23:30 these days - I could leave much earlier if I wanted to, but then they wouldn't pay me... ;) I'm usually home and online after midnight, and may stay up until early or even late morning, depends on how tired I am. <As for Koshy, aargh. RL picked a bad time to distract me. Sometimes I ... hate is too strong a word ... sometimes I am *not fond of* RL.> Heh. :) As for that klu, I saw it last night, and - being blissfully unaware of all significances of names and dates - immediately recognized it as a cryptogram, but I was too tired by then to work on it. ;p Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> Ah. That sort of explains why you systematically keep going for a few hours longer than me at 'night' - small hours, morning - despite being apparently closer to sunrise. Wait, you saw that klu *last Night*...? I saw it about three hours after I got up, which was a tad late anyway. In theory, I'm a morning person. I regularly hit 06:00 from both directions -- but, given a choice, I'd prefer it as the start of a day rather than the end of one. The old brain cells, y'know. They decline, hour by spluttering hour. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: BTW, not your fault, not mine -- but that shoppycrap virus is *bloody* insidious. And persistent. I haven't been caught by such an email spam routine in over ten years. It sounds like retro ironic: part of its success, I guess. That, and triangulation. Vermin. Dec-20-10    Annie K.: <Is this the part of the day when you earn your shekels by turning cherubim into kerubok?> Take two on that ;) - 1. I don't really do much translating anymore (as I've explained to you and several other friends here...) :) 2. Your English-Hungarian translation skills are excellent; ;) 3. I see an update is needed on the Israeli currency, though, as it hasn't been called (or referred to here as) "shekel" for many years now - it's NIS - New Israeli Shekel - in English, and officially "New Shekel" - Shekel Chadash - in Hebrew, but referred to in common parlance strictly by the acronym form: Sha"ch - which, incidentally, is pronounced the same, and is written with exactly the same letters, as schach, the word for chess. And now you know... ;) Dec-20-10    Annie K.: <Wait, you saw that klu *last Night*...?> Ah, I call any time of day prior to going to sleep "last night"... it's a private terminology thing. Heh, sorry. It was morningish - sometime between 5-7 or so, my time, I think. <but that shoppycrap virus is *bloody* insidious. And persistent.> Yes, although that's about the extent of its "malwareness" - it doesn't really do anything to harm your computer, it's just bloody aggressive - and deceitful - about spreading itself. But that's quite bad enough. Grrr. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: Ha! Tried Kepler first, moved onto hex, then the obvious numeric codes ... Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: Via 20 different spellings of Snow and Krystelle ... Dec-20-10    crawfb5: Good job. I kept trying various ways of tying Wilson Bentley to a game... Dec-20-10    Annie K.: Congrats!!! =) I figured it would be a numeric code, since TinEye returned only the same pic without the colors - but I'll leave that sort of thing to you, particularly while at work... ;) Dec-20-10    dakgootje: I tried practically the same idea, but including the greenish and going counter-clockwise.. Close, but no sour grapes. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: Poetic justic, I call it, given the weather here. Though I understand other places have weather too, possibly with snow crystals. Thank you, o my droogs and zapkinder... Dec-20-10    Annie K.: So, shared #2nd now? ;) Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: Verily. Ackshully, I almost missed this one too -- I was shovelling in pasta when it appeared. Only this time I *had* taken the laptop to the West Wing. Dec-20-10    Annie K.: And that made all the difference... as some guy named <Frost> sez. ;) Dec-20-10    hms123: <Dom> Congrats again! You are one cool customer. Dec-20-10    Domdaniel: Hmm. "I took the laptop to the west wing And that made all the difference." ...? Echoes of Shade/Nabokov there: "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain ..." Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 652 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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