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 703 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-07-11    Domdaniel: Since an endomorph is an, um, generously proportioned person, and an ectomorph is more, well, skeletal ... then shouldn't *endogamy* refer to the custom of marrying fat people? Instead it means something like 'inbreeding', or a tendency to marry within one's tribe. As an ectomorph, I can't say that I'm surprised to find no word for *ectogamy*, ie the practice of mating with the emaciated. The opposite of endogamy is exogamy, the tendency to marry outside the tribe. I use the word 'marry' figuratively. Historically, exogamy was usually achieved by capture, not rapture. While I'm on the subject of ectomorphs, why do people in less word-conscious corners of the nutterweb - ie, almost everywhere - end their little discourses with the letters 'ect' ...? Do they suddenly become shy and bashful at the thought of a thin person? Or is it a muffled acronymic plea for electro-convulsive therapy? As if that would help, ect. Mar-07-11    Annie K.: Booping... <I use the word 'marry' figuratively.> Yamean euphemistically? ;) Mar-07-11    Domdaniel: Arguably. A detractor might add 'euphuistically' on accounta the verbose meanders. But old Euphues - no relation to Euphausia, a kind of malacostracan crustacean, the mafia of the shrimp world - has a dodgy rep. His barque was worse than his boat. Though I admit that the m-word seems well suited for the official definition of 'euphemism' -- 'a rhetorical figure by which an unpleasant or offensive thing is referred to by a milder term'. Not very WC of me, I know. Euphemes, humemes. Mar-08-11    Annie K.: <Not very WC of me, I know.> Heh... Mar-14-11    Penguincw: I have just achieved that.Here's the post celebrating about the achievement:Penguincw chessforum. Let me know when you reach 20,000 posts.I have to admit,you're a pretty active "poster".You're average amount of kibitzes per day is 10.15503875968992248062015503876 (don't ask me how to pronounce that). Mar-14-11    Penguincw: < Domdaniel > Thanks. Next time,I should use those 8 digit calculators. Mar-14-11    Domdaniel: <Penguincw> Thanks. My average may not mean very much, as I post in a manic-depressive pattern ... a huge pile of stuff, then a silence, then another burst of activity. Come to think of it, I'm in silent mode at the moment. Mostly. Mar-17-11    cormier: <happy st-patrick day <<<<<tks G>>>>>> Mar-17-11    OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYdq... Mar-17-11    achieve: <Dom> I watched Black Swan the other day and immediately thought of the truth in what the commentator said you cited a few months back. Wonder why Portman won the oscar, as there is hardly any real substance in that film available to engage with any character for that matter. Few exceptions. We all long to be silent. We just can't help ourselves but to ... Mar-17-11    Open Defence: Happy St Patrick's Day!!! Mar-18-11    Domdaniel: <cormier, Deffi> Merci beaucoup, thank you, cheers. I ventured out into the world at about 6pm on the 17th, and saw drunk teenagers everywhere, staggering back from some parade or simply celebrating their national holiday by getting blotto. And it wasn't even dark yet. So I went back home and hid. Today I visited some remote bits of seaside, surf pounding on rocks, wooded inlets, all very quiet and beautiful. Very different experience. Mar-18-11    Annie K.: That's great. :) Mar-18-11    tedious person: Hello. I am a member of the British Conservative Party, which means I just go on and on until I froth at the mouth and fall over backwards. In addition, I find it offensive that serious people think only "idiots" believe the year 2012 will be the Apocalypse. I am in fact a blithering idiot and I don't believe the world will end in 2012. Mar-18-11    Domdaniel: 2012 is the year of Zion -- righteous dub and rasta ganja, mon. <tedious> - may I call you <tedi>? - you can be my bodyguard. Mar-18-11    Domdaniel: <Annie> Heh ... you think I never go outdoors, don't you? But in fact I make an annual inspection in early spring. Mar-18-11    achieve: what is 2012? a banner year? end of an epoc? Naahh.. transition? Or just popu redux time. It's gonna be a hell of a year I tells ya, but nothing remotely like my year of birth. Mar-18-11    OhioChessFan: http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2011/0... Mar-19-11    Annie K.: Yes dear. Why, you practically live off the land. ;) Mar-19-11    Domdaniel: <Annie> - < you practically live off the land.> Indeed. I also introduced my two-year-old nephew to grass yesterday. Not that kind, the other kind. Urban sprog that he is, he was fascinated by this green growing stuff. Tugged out a few fistfuls and let them blow away in the breeze, while laughing at them. Later, he met the sea, and waves. Only natural, innit? Mar-19-11    Annie K.: Well! I am quite impressed with your foray into the dual realms of pastoralism and child-rearing. Charmingly <human>. ;) Which nephew would that be? :) Mar-19-11    Domdaniel: Charles I. The only nephew I share a surname with. Showing definite promise, though the chess test is still ahead. Mar-19-11    Domdaniel: "child-rearing" ... ? Steady on. I'm good for half an avuncular hour, then I have to lie down. Ongoing responsibility for a sprog seems like rampant insanity. I'd crack rather quickly. Mar-19-11    Annie K.: Heh! Yeah, half an hour is about my limit too. And that's <if> they are one of the rather few actually cute ones to start with. ;) Mar-19-11    Domdaniel: Course they're cute. Share some of my genes, don't they? Though nature only goes so far. One awaits whatever traumas nurture has in store for the creatures. By and large, my nieces and nephews have relatives who are bright but not necessarily sane. 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