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 665 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-23-10    dakgootje: Aww, this is not our day. Or year - whatever you want :P Heh, the second I saw it I was convinced it was a cryptogram - didn't even consider a literal interpretation. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: Ell's Bells. That woulda been clever. I mean, it *was*. What *guts* me right now, is having checked several lists from the bottom up, I switched to top-down for Amour. There were three. I got thru two with the klu still live. And it doesn't *matter*. My subscription will probably last longer than I will, at this rate. And I could still buy a book, if I wanted such a book, which I don't, and they're gone. I just want to do better than 3. Do you hate me yet? Dec-23-10    dakgootje: oooohhh, note this is page 666 of your forum! Damnation and stuff like that will be yours. Except if you don't believe in it - then you'll be fine. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: Oh, and I wasted time on: all games played in the 1590s; games by McEwan, actor in film ; character names, eg Nathaniel. Versions of Nul, naught, zero, love. Only finally turning to the language of the Frog. Ecrasez l'infame. Dec-23-10    Annie K.: <Dom: <I just want to do better than 3. Do you hate me yet?>> No, but I hate <dakkie> just a little bit, for beating me to this: <oooohhh, note this is page 666 of your forum!> I was keeping an eye on that too! ;p Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> A Ping, you said. I hope you didn't go to any trouble re the walk-through thing ... I don't think I can go on tonight after that last rush of unhealthy chemistry thru my body. Gonna lie down and forget. If a final Nuklu remains come the morrow, I may deign to attempt it. This is a bit like my inevitable last-round OTB losses. Must learn to pace self. G♘ Dec-23-10    Annie K.: No trouble. :) But sheesh, take it easy, sweet! This game should be for fun, not stress. G♘, have a nice cocoa or something. ;) Dec-23-10    dakgootje: Owww I wasn't even checking it - just noticed it all of a sudden! :| Uhm... http://nocreativity.com/blog/wp-con... + http://www.innocentenglish.com/funn... ??? :D Dec-23-10    Annie K.: Heh... awwww... how could I possibly hold a grudge after those?? ;) Dec-23-10    dakgootje: <But sheesh, take it easy, sweet! This game should be for fun, not stress.> Sorry, but you certainly are mistaken there. We only play games to <WIN>! EVERYTHING is allowed in love, war and games! Fun is only those who can not win. Fun is for <losers>! Now excuse me, I have to scream at my computer as if the world is going to end because only because of it I did <NOT> WIN. It doesn't even say SIR YES SIR! It does not understand what WAR is all about! ps: War is obviously about screaming SIR YES SIR and <WINNING> Dec-23-10    dakgootje: Oh, think I may just have spilled my cuteness-points there :( Dec-23-10    Annie K.: I sit corrected... :D Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: <dak> To me, the most innaresting thing about 666 is that it's the product of 37 and 18, and a number of the form n(2n+1). And the sum of the squares of 15 and 21. Though once, when I lived by the sea in Dublin, I woke up on a bright winter morning to see a huge red graffiti painted on the beach wall opposite. It named two politicians who died and said they were "planting xmas trees in hell" and was signed 666. Probably the satanist wing of the young conservatives. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: <dak> -- <ps: War is obviously about screaming SIR YES SIR and <WINNING>> I think you just have cut straight to the heart of why some boys like it so much. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: Farewell, Nuklu We see now that Thee Withheld Thy favor Because Thee is a wimp GID And scared of old phonies Like Beelzebub and Mephistopheles In the words of the latter O Nuklu, "Why, this is Hell. Nor am I out of it." But I'll be out of it soon. O Nuklu. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: And on that cheery note Night, gang. Dec-23-10    Domdaniel: Hey ho. Just popped back for a cheery comforting blast of the Stonehenge Song. Elves! Idle Nomad. Dec-23-10    Annie K.: You like to make us worry about you, dontcha? ;p Nite, sweet. :) PS - you made post #6 on this page. ;) Dec-23-10    OhioChessFan: You're just plain wrong here, <Dom> and I have to say I'm shocked you're siding with the censor. Dec-24-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <Domdaniel: We could both voluntarily opt out of next year's quiz -- if they let us set the puzzles. I think I could be pretty fiendish in ways that no search engine could reach.> I suspect that the chance of this happening is bistable. Either fat, or slim... < Domdaniel: I first saw the cellphone menace in action when some big movie came out...> Proper way to handle improper cell phone calls: http://failblog.org/2010/10/04/epic... Dec-24-10    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Domdaniel: And it doesn't *matter*. My subscription will probably last longer than I will, at this rate. And I could still buy a book, if I wanted such a book, which I don't, and they're gone. I just want to do better than 3. Do you hate me yet?> Pretty much exactly my feelings after clue 18... except that I lost clue 18 in a much more embarrassing way. Dec-24-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <SwitchingQuylthulg: Pretty much exactly my feelings after clue 18... except that I lost clue 18 in a much more embarrassing way.> Let me guess: you decided to first replay the game to see the king go all the way to d8 and back :-) Dec-24-10    SwitchingQuylthulg: <MostlyAverageJoe: Let me guess: you decided to first replay the game to see the king go all the way to d8 and back :-)> :) Nope, I lost it to being <clumsy>... To keep it shortish, I used CQL (http://www.rbnn.com/cql/) to find that game. CQL is quite slow, taking several minutes to find such things in a 600,000 game database; but I apparently spotted the clue several minutes before you, so that was okay. Except that when it finished and I tried to check the output file, I somehow managed to instead start CQL all over again. And since the first thing it does is overwrite the old output file, I had to patiently wait several more minutes until it was finished again. And, thanks to you, I couldn't afford several more minutes. Dec-24-10    MostlyAverageJoe: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Good one, indeed. Reminds me of the one I missed because I run case-sensitive query for "Sagan" -- and another where I opened >50 tabs in the browser and while dismissing the duds quickly, closed the one with the prize by mistake. It was gone while I was re-opening these tabs (the first ~20 tabs still had the prize availability announcement; the one I was looking for was somewhere around 30th place). Dec-24-10    twinlark: Long time no see, old friend. All the best till next time. In the meantime: May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 665 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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