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 669 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-24-10    Annie K.: <201> OMG OMG we had the wrong move all along - it's not ♘e6, it's ♘g4!! That explains everything! I mean, that's like saying "Gesundheit" instead of "Amen", see?! Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Do the *same thing* as a hundred other people? I think not, sweet. Though there *are* exceptions. Dec-24-10    Annie K.: Yeah, quite a few...! OK, how about, we do, but pretend we didn't? ;) Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: In *zis* country, 'Gesundheit' is a *funny foreign word*, used only - here we go again - by ironists such as moi. The older generation react to a sneeze with 'gob less' or 'god bless you'. I've tried to explain that it all goes back to The Plague Years, when anyone who fneezed would be in the afterlife, fnappish. The younger generation just look at sneezers coldly, as if to say 'who let this filthy germ-laden person in?' And they say human charity is on the wane... Amen. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: <OK, how about, we do, but pretend we didn't?> Rather than the other way round, you mean? ;) Dec-24-10    crawfb5: I keep thinking they will post the last clue any minute now (it is 21:10 on 24 Dec in the eastern US, same time zone as CG's home base), somebody else can solve it quickly and then I can go to bed with some sense of closure... ...but no, they have to drag it out... Dec-24-10    Annie K.: <'gob less'> thanks, I'll try. :p Trivia - both the Hungarian and the Hebrew responses to sneezing are "to (your) health". <Rather than the other way round, you mean? ;)> :p Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Numbers online are dropping like a mercury thermometer. Mebbe we can *outlast* 'em ... It's only 02:15 here ... Dec-24-10    Annie K.: <craw> Hmm, I think they should post that darn klu very soon. BTW, it occurs to me that I reckoned the publishing times by EST, whereas I probably should have gone by CST, or maybe even PST. Anyhoo, I'm going to claim that because of this, my estimates were an hour off, and therefore the first one was right on cue, and the second one should be ... any ... minute... now... ;) Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: When you refresh the klu page, Ray Keene's pic turns into a penguin's bum with a chess tattoo. Least, that's what I *think* it is ... Dec-24-10    crawfb5: <Annie> I think EST would be correct. CG is on EST and I vaguely remember last year's contest not running that late, but I could be mistaken. Dec-24-10    Annie K.: <Dom>... or something like that. ;) Odd. <craw> hmm, ok. Well, it's half past nine EST already anyway, so it can't take much longer, unless they think the last klu is very easy - but they've been known to get their difficulty estimations wrong, so they should be playing it safe... :s Dec-24-10    twinlark: That's right. No one was going to reign on Vicky's parade. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Great governess of those huge pink maps though she was. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Anyway ... good luck to those assembled, and those merely passing through/ May it not go to some lurker, with no wit, no soul, no clue ... Hey, it rhymes. Dec-24-10    Annie K.: Yea that! :) And the numbers do keep dropping. But hey, lookie at what I just found: User: SillvioDanaillov! Hmm. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: You *do* look in strange places, my dear, and find the oddest things. (Me, Miss, Me! Me!) Eh, back of the Veselin drawer, wozzit? Dec-24-10    Annie K.: Heh... just so. ;) KLU!!!! Dec-24-10    Annie K.: Ah, well. I've been searching for "Rudy" ackshly, after reading the movie synopsis. OK, folks, time to turn the game viewers back to Deluxe, go back to Opera (in my case), and try to remember how that "sleep" thing is done. Merry Christmas! ;) Dec-24-10    crawfb5: I was searching reindeer names and skipped <Donner> because I knew there would be a boatload of games (960). I'm very happy to have gotten three. I think I was searching better than last year. I think I could have gotten 2 or 3 had I a few more minutes working time, and I let one I probably had slip due to fatigue. Still, I think I was lucky in both seeing clues early enough as well as probably just beating some others to the ones I got. That's it for me. Time for bed and dreams of some <other> bone to worry. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Cy. I had some nice anagrams: Semeria, Greene, Mednis, I even had one that *fit*. Before everyone goes, my *totally useless* secret weapon xmas klu: If a klu came up as "God Bless us every one!" -- bit too godly, maybe, for the santa-fest, but conceivable, reference Tiny Tim. So I had ready, just in case, a 6-move game by Tim Krabbe. And a 5-mover only reachable via 'Timothy'. See you, uh, next year? *Weight lifting* No, I don't have a new pastime. I just felt a metaphorical weight, yanno, lifting. As one does. Even my last-minute wish to keep the victor in the family didn't work. Cy. Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: <Annie> ♘e99!! Elves! A demain. Dec-24-10    Annie K.: <Cy> ?? <So I had ready, just in case, a 6-move game by Tim Krabbe. And a 5-mover only reachable via 'Timothy'.> Impressive homework! <See you, uh, next year?> See you tomorrow. Unless you hide. ;p <*Weight lifting*> Indeed. :) ♘g4 all, oops, I mean ♘e5 all. ;) And them elves... :p Dec-24-10    Domdaniel: Cy is the short form of the Old English <Sssssiiiighhhhh>. Nothing to do with Cy Beria. Dec-25-10    OhioChessFan: <How do I go about getting one of these IQ rating things anyhow? Do I have to beat up stupider people, if I can find any?> I think you could draw someone with a higher IQ to gain some points. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 669 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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