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| May-30-11 | | hms123: <Dom> I drew against Curt Jones who played Alex Yermolinsky who played Vasily Smyslov who played Andre Lilienthal. After that it goes like this:
<Lilienthal played R.P. Michell at Hastings 1934-35; Michell played the Rev. John Owen at Hastings 1895 (Amateur Section); and Owen played Morphy a number of games in 1858. Pomar played a match against Jacques Mieses in 1946; Mieses played Louis Paulsen at Nuremberg 1888 and Henry Bird at Hastings 1895; and both Paulsen and Bird played a number of games against Morphy. > <Lilienthal> also played <Mieses>. I think I need to count on my toes to figure out my Morphy number. |
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| May-30-11 | | crawfb5: My Morphy number is not bad. I played Douglas Root. Root played Samuel Reshevsky. Reshevsky played Jacques Mieses. Mieses played Louis Paulsen. Paulsen played Morphy, so my "Morphy number" is 5. |
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May-30-11
 | | Domdaniel: Does that give me a hms-number of 5, via Keogh, Stahlberg, Smyslov, Yermolinsky, and Jones? I wonder how long a chain of draws to Capablanca would be? Maybe not so long if I can include the simul draw with Miles. Or a sequence of wins ending with any world champion? I can do it in three, but can't find a plausible two. |
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May-30-11
 | | moronovich: I have 3-0 against a former national champ who has(had?) 2 win and one draw against Capa,Alekhine and Lasker ..in simul.I dont know who got away with the draw.But 2½ vs these giants could/ should be worldrecord. His name is Gemzøe and, Dom , you have perhaps heard about him in connection with reading Bjørn Nelsen. |
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May-30-11
 | | Annie K.: <Dom: <I sound good? You got cyber-synaesthesia, lady. Which reminds me. If 'in loco parentis' means 'crazy like a parent', and 'moi aussi' means 'I'm Australian', then *kinaesthesia* is the irrational belief that one's relatives are good-looking.> >In that case, just what's wrong with synaesthesia, anyway? :p <Ohio>, plz don't link to the Pet Shop Boys, k? ;) <dakkie> yeah, quite possibly, I gave up on trying to keep up with his videos long ago, when he started turning out over an hour's worth of'em per day. I'd rather play my own blitz in that time. ;s <Dom: <Rooting, Tooting.>> Heh. So what ya lookin for this time? :) |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: <moronovich> I remember Gemzøe -- you actually played him?! I also dimly recall a minor CG debate a few years ago - about whether he existed, how to spell his name, whether (or when) he had played Nimzo... the usual stuff. Speaking of mysterious Danish players ... about 5 years ago I played in a simul/exhibition in Copenhagen without getting the name of my opponent. He was aged about 60, and the event was run by the K-41 club, during a festival on the waterfront. Somebody told me he'd done well in Danish championships in the 1970s, but I was too polite to say 'who are you, sir?'. He played very strongly and made mincemeat of my Stonewall Dutch. Any ideas? |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> -- < <Rooting, Tooting.>>
Heh. So what ya lookin for this time? :)>
Eh? Moi? Oh, the search? Just books'n'stuff. Documentations. Proof I exist. The usual. Also, I *lived* - well, I suppose you could call it living - in Tooting in South London, for a short period long ago. If I had to 'root' for a burb of Londonistan, I'd root for Tooting. Some fine Indian restaurants, then, and not too many guns. Maybe it has changed. |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: Of course - al-jabber time - Change, C, is a constant, K, and x changes in a time t. So always sac the exchange at teatime, chess algebraists. Some class of bone-setter, I think. Which is not a breed of dog. |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: <A> - < just what's wrong with synaesthesia, anyway?>
The smell of fear gets too loud and green, is what. And don't get me started on those proprioceptive tickles. ;) It may appal poor old Chomsky, but I tend to regard "Colourless green ideas sleep furiously" as a simple statement of fact. |
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May-30-11
| | Annie K.: Heh. Yeah, I knew someone else like that - ackshly, t'was that American journalist acquaintance who also introduced me to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. ;) |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: < pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis>
You know you can make it even longer -- hmm, I haven't had an anonymous email on that topic for a while, filters must be improving - er, sorry, where was I? - oh yes ... extend it by adding a vowel after 'scopic', thus: <pneumonoultramicroscopicasilicavolcanoconiosis>. A word I've used down t'chess club, on hearing some kids talking 'bout antidisestablishmentarianism. A minnow. Note I also prefer -silica- ('sand') to -silico- (a minor mafia clan in Minnesota). Manny Di Presso |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: "A language is a dialect with an army, and the dictionary is its constitution..." Anon. |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: On behalf of short words, *I* would like to register *a* complaint about all the attention paid to long ones. O tempora, o mores, u get what u pay for. |
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May-30-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <hmm, I haven't had an anonymous email on that topic for a while, filters must be improving - er, sorry, where was I?>> AhhahahaLOLheh
<Manny Di Presso>
A typo, Shirley? It should be Di Gresso, my dear detourist extraordinaire de force. A most noble family, the Di Gressos. :) |
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May-31-11
| | moronovich: < Domdaniel: <moronovich> I remember Gemzøe -- you actually played him?! I also dimly recall a minor CG debate a few years ago - about whether he existed, how to spell his name, whether (or when) he had played Nimzo... the usual stuff.
Speaking of mysterious Danish players ... about 5 years ago I played in a simul/exhibition in Copenhagen without getting the name of my opponent. He was aged about 60, and the event was run by the K-41 club, during a festival on the waterfront. Somebody told me he'd done well in Danish championships in the 1970s, but I was too polite to say 'who are you, sir?'. He played very strongly and made mincemeat of my Stonewall Dutch. Any ideas?> Good morning in Ireland!
Hope your day will be sunny and all jazz will enter the best part of your cells...;) Brinck-Clausen could perhaps be the simul guy.Otherwise I´m blank,for the moment. And yes,Gemzøe played Nimzo on several occasions (more than twice I believe).He told me it was not that difficult to draw him. |
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| May-31-11 | | dakgootje: <I gave up on trying to keep up with his videos long ago, when he started turning out over an hour's worth of'em per day.> Haha, yeah me too :P
When he began doing those games versus a group of chesscubers I did compete in some of them [and generally beat him ;] - but otherwise I haven't really seen any vid's lately. |
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Jun-01-11
| | Domdaniel: K-see? Ah, Crusher of Kings, yeah, aka Gav Try or Try Gav? I've always thought of him as 'Scrusher'. 'Scrush' being one of those special English verbs, like 'craunch', only found in language textbooks. "I have to England come to scrush the royal family and to craunch your delicious marmosets." |
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| Jun-01-11 | | dakgootje: Certainly, also known as Casey.
Following the previous succes at the Oscars, there will be a new British royal-family based film actually 'The Kings Crush'. Supposedly, despite her wanting to stay a common girl, in the end they get each other. It just takes an hour and half. |
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Jun-01-11
| | Domdaniel: < It just takes an hour and half.>
Lucky gel. I can see the ad slogans already ... "He entered a commoner and a Queen came..." Or something like that.
They say a footman holds the royal member. Hope they never get foot-in-mouth disease. |
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Jun-01-11
| | Domdaniel: Here is a slice of the sublime, dedicated to Nigel Short (with Wisden) and Peter Svidler (lbw) - Roy Harper's <When an old cricketer leaves the crease>: http://youtu.be/Y18BCrf9fo8 Footnotes. Harper was something of a hero of mine in the 1970s, with songs like 'I Hate the White Man' and the 20-minute 'McGoohan's Blues'. This song appeared on an album circa '78 which was quickly withdrawn for legal reasons: another song had a line "Watford gap, Watford gap, greasy chips and a plate of crap", and Watford Gap Motorway Services Inc threatened to sue. With hindsight, it's the first of the great 'old man perspective' songs - cf Cohen's 'Alexandra Leaving' and Dylan's 'Mississippi'. The difference is that Harper was less than 40 when he wrote it, and it's also one of the great sporting elegies. Even if he overdoes it slightly on 'silly mid on' in this version. Sublime. |
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Jun-02-11
| | Annie K.: Yanno something, I just realized that heaven would be such a scre... I mean, no-win situation, for AJ. :s If it doesn't exist, he embarrassed himself his whole life by strongly claiming it does... and if it does exist, and he actually goes there? Even worse. There's some <other> guy getting all the attention and being worshiped there, see? :p |
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Jun-02-11
| | Annie K.: *Llano Estacado* |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Jinx. I just finished reading 'Necroville' by Ian McDonald -- 1990s cyber/nano SF in which smart nanoplastics resurrect the dead, confer immortality, build heaven. Old religions have collapsed, new ones sprouted from the ruins. One of the older characters - beautiful and immortal - says she "remembers Reagan" so maybe there's, ahem, hope for us all. I'd avoided this book before, cos I'm not much into the horror aesthetic or necro stuff. Cold bodies leave me dead. But I'd read recent books by McDonald, set in future versions of Brazil, Turkey, India - he's a real writerly writer, smart and curious. And Necroville turned out well. It's about the politics of immortality, in the end. Point is it contains a fascinating argument on the "heaven must get boring" thesis. |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <More Raw Bleeding Culture>
Roy Harper will be 70 next week, wonder if he’ll get anything like the attention that Zimmerman bloke got. With the possible exception of Elvis Costello, nobody else from this side of the Atlantic has combined words and music so well to express both a powerful emotion and a political stance. He lives near me now and sometimes plays a bar not far away … in the land of look and see … Here are some crucial bits.
An interview – DeBarra’s, Cork, 2004.
http://youtu.be/qpBlRcDWOxI
I Hate the White Man
http://youtu.be/VsRs9HXsbOU
McGoohan’s Blues pt 1
http://youtu.be/i_nKzFPpidI
McGoohan’s Blues pt2
http://youtu.be/bF8sOEU1Kzk |
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| Jun-03-11 | | dakgootje: <heaven must get boring> Suppose you must first lose all conception of time -and possibly part of your episodic memory. Otherwise eternity will be perceived as 'very long'. |
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