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| Mar-30-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I will intervene in your decaphilia: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/vir... This video (after waiting for the ad to end) captures the spirit of the current debate involving some of the funniest posts in years. You really need to check out the Naka-AJ game page if you haven't already. |
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Mar-30-11
 | | Domdaniel: <hms> That's indeed what I was alluding to, ever so gently. I have thus far resisted the urge to *say* anything that might put me back in the firing line. After all, I spent five minutes simulating Magna Minity in order to get out of it. The lesson being that trolls *should* be fed after all, but on trifles so sugary they'll get bored and look elsewhere to sate their vitriolic urges. Hilarious, of course, too. |
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Mar-30-11
| | Domdaniel: Scary vid, btw. Is that proto-Sumerian?
I dread to think what kind of 'adult' behavior they're imitating. |
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| Mar-30-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I am glad you were following the discussion. It has brought out the best in some of our colleagues. As for the video, it appeared when needed. Very Tao-istic. |
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Mar-31-11
| | Domdaniel: Among the Frozen Chosen - the Jewish inhabitants of Canada and other cold places - were some, like Leonard Cohen, who turned to Buddhism. The Pro-Zen Frozen Chosen are wise. |
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Mar-31-11
 | | OhioChessFan: <But Nigel Short told me that in one recent simultaneous exhibition he caught one of his opponents with a chess engine on his lap.> I know I should cry, but I did in fact LOL at that. |
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Mar-31-11
| | OhioChessFan: <This video (after waiting for the ad to end) captures the spirit of the current debate involving some of the funniest posts in years. > Sociologists 10,000 years hence will have a field day with The Page. Currently, <AJ> is the voice of restraint and reason. |
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Mar-31-11
| | Domdaniel: Never mind sociologists 10,000 years hence ("Lennon was the first ruler of a state known as USSR, and a fan was a kind of stalker ...") ... what about *ten* years hence, when everyone takes portable processing and communications as a given, and you can't ask people to switch off their cellphones before the performance? <Anyone caught breathing oxygen, either from a tank or the atmosphere, will be disqualified.> That's what efforts to ban chess engines will seem like, in 2021. |
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Apr-01-11
| | Domdaniel: Tournament time again this weekend. Last year I started with 2.5/3, so this time ... um ... we shall see. |
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| Apr-01-11 | | Octavia: I came to you via Short. <I am not the only one who writes in order to have no face. - Michel Foucault> I like it - what does it mean? He was a great writer on political psychology. |
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Apr-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <Octavia> Yes - nice line, isn't it? I think it's from a strange and cryptic paragraph at the end of the introduction to <Archaeology of Knowledge>. The context is something like "Leave it to the police to ensure that our papers are in order, and spare us your vigilance when we write ... I am not the only one who writes in order to have no face ..." That's the English version, of course. I've read *some* Foucault in French, but not a lot. The quote seems to have great prescience now in the internet age. Perhaps Foucault was more concerned about privacy - and the gap between his public persona and his private life. I'm interested in anti-celebrity: the metaphysical opposite of fame. People like Thomas Pynchon and Scott Walker who avoid publicity and become known as recluses. Not that I want to reveal them or find them ... I'm just impressed by their foresight and understanding that celebrity is toxic. I spent a few years interviewing celebs, so I've seen the effects in person. The chess version - which I think I mentioned chez Nigel - is the odd fawning obseqiousness that comes over many chessplayers in the presence of a GM. |
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Apr-01-11
| | Domdaniel: I got beat up badly in, um, a Reversed Alekhine (1.Nf3 Nc6 2.a3 e5 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Nb3 Bb6, aka the Munster Attack) ... why do I do these things? Perhaps because previous opponents had played 3...e4, when White gets a favorable line of Alekhine's where a3 is useful. Not so much here. Back to the drawing board. Scarily strong tournament, lots of GMs and IMs. I think my opponent was the highest-rated player without a title, something like 2200. And there are more where he came from. Who was that Dickens character - Mrs Leo Something? - who wrote <Ode to an Expiring Frog>? |
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Apr-02-11
| | Domdaniel: On 50% after 4 rounds, all 4 games won by Black. I scored with a Winawer and a Dutch; after the 1st round massacre, opponents have been in the 1900 zone. And I went gonzo in a King's Indian, sacking one piece brilliantly and a 2nd one idiotically, turning a possible win into a loss. This is a bit worse than last year, when I started with 2.5/3, and better than 2009, when I started with 0/3 in a weaker event. I'm near the bottom of the pecking order here, so every point is an achievement. Both wins were against players who'd previously beaten me in last-round games. That may mean something. |
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| Apr-03-11 | | achieve: <Both wins were against players who'd previously beaten me in last-round games. That may mean something.> It can't *but* mean something. Just gotta try and lay your finger on what that "something" is ... Nice reporting, <Dom>, so how did you fare in the Sunday games? Did you cream 'em? I hope you did, nice 4/6 and a +2, though an even score I suppose will also account for a successful campaign. Most important of course is that you enjoyed the weekend and relished the competition and atmosphere "there". |
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Apr-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Went for a win in the last round, with a prize at stake. Wound up sacking a piece, playing about 30 moves of blitz (with 10 sec increment) ... and lost. Sigh. 2.5/3 with Black against higher-rated opponents. As for White ... hmmm, I need to do something different. And eat bananas. |
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| Apr-04-11 | | achieve: Bananas or orange juice, or a combination - for sure ;) Does "as for White hmmm" mean that you lost all three whites? Or did you get to 50%? But promising results with Black, no? I doubt the colours matter much really in terms of what you'll be able to score in the next tournament. Anyways, nicely done and a good work-out for the weekend, I reckon. Plop, out of the Chess bubble and back with your feet firmly on your apartment floor, racing to check what was left in the fridge? heh |
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Apr-04-11
 | | Open Defence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NE... |
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| Apr-04-11 | | hms123: <dom> Have you noticed that <TD> went in the wrong direction temporarily. My method of delete without comment is much more effective. You are well out of this mess. |
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| Apr-04-11 | | technical draw: <hms123> Thanks. You can call me joe naive from now on. I always thought that all people have some sort of redeeming quality. Our friend has proven this to be wrong. Some people are unsavable. |
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Apr-04-11
| | Domdaniel: <TD and hms> It's giving me deja vu all over again. Who was it said "Always turn the other cheek - nothing annoys 'em so much" ...? |
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| Apr-04-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I believe that I said that first and then copyrighted the phrase. You owe me $20 (<TD> just kidding--I'll never do it again--promise--sort of--maybe). |
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Apr-05-11
| | Domdaniel: All people do *not* have some sort of redeeming quality. QED. There we go ... it's slow and incremental, but the sum of human knowledge is increasing. |
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Apr-05-11
 | | Annie K.: Naw... I've known that for years. ;)
<Dom: <Who was it said "Always turn the other cheek - nothing annoys 'em so much" ...?>> It's one of cg.com's recurring Quotes of the Day, ackshly: <Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
--- Ken Whyld>
(yes, I have a collection of my favorites saved on my own computer...) I indulge in said practice occasionally myself, but always reserve the right not to do so. :p Case in point, the creep in question never left my iggy list since the first time I put it in there. Thus, it has been entirely possible for me to continue to enjoy the site all this time. ;) |
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Apr-05-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> A wise course. I think he listed you a few times -- with me, Jess, TD, and many others -- as members of a sinister cabal of intellectual snobs who were stalking him. I'd rather stalk a fly, personally. They're less predictable. That said, the probationer did exhibit some innaresting character traits. A bottomless pit of self-righteous anger (there's an entity named BAAM - the British Association of Anger Management - who seem to be aptly named) ... and in a way that's not typically trollish. I think that threw a few people, possibly including admins. Trolls, nordamericano style, behave in comprehensible ways. The probationer didn't conform: he insisted that he was the wronged party. And was so demented that I've been wary about discussing him since the incident, but hopefully the CG version of an ASBO will have some effect. |
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Apr-05-11
| | Domdaniel: I scored 0/3 with White at the weekend, though I was nominally winning at some point in the middle of two King's Indians. But I'm looking at new ideas for White. The Polar Bear, maybe. Is there a Bipolar Bear? |
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