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 744 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-04-11    dakgootje: Ooooeh 2 new things I have to mention - Thanks for the preciselierst explanation :) - I somehow broke the forum with my jinxapunction post and it now seems like I want to make some clever meta-joke with the sole-y. However, I am not in on the joke. Aug-04-11    Domdaniel: *Would the indubitably cool Dutch gentleman in the wraparound shades please refrain from jinxing the page. Thank you, and dank u wel.* Youthful high jinks, I imagine. "I heard about his winning the award" and "I heard about him winning the award" are both acceptable, to my liberal anything-goes-bar-stupidity attitude. Different nuances, though. 'him' is more natural, more demotic; 'his' is a bit like one of those dubious rules about 'split' infinitives, based on false analogies between Latin and English. It sounds fussy and pedantic, even if correct. I guess the question is 'What did you hear about?' Was it him (winning an award), or was it his winning (of) an award? I find it safer to use 'her', whenever there's a doubt. Aug-04-11    hms123: <dak>. <Dom> I have to weigh in pedantically. I much prefer the admittedly Latin-based "his" because of its roots in the genitive. One does hear both quite often. Aug-04-11    Domdaniel: <hms> That's the thing about genitives - it like they were made with roots in mind. Spooky. Aug-05-11    dakgootje: Think the genitive is disappearing in Dutch actually. I will try to look into it - even though this isn't that easy to find. As opposed to, for instance, the difference between continually and continuously where you can simply google the two words. <I guess the question is 'What did you hear about?' Was it him (winning an award), or was it his winning (of) an award?> That sounds about right and natural - but is it grammatically correct? ;) It's not really that I have a sudden desire to write topnotch grammatically-perfect English -- just curious about the rules :) Aug-05-11    whiteshark: <dakgootje: <Think the genitive is disappearing in Dutch actually.>> De datief is de genitief zijn dood. Same here, unfortunately. Aug-05-11    Domdaniel: Datives? You can't give them away, these days. O for a good vocative. Or is that a subjunctive? Should I say, rather, "O good vocative, assist me!"? Good grief. It's like explorer Henry Rawlinson's blocked nose - "The datives are freddly". Aug-05-11    OhioChessFan: I am suprised to find the Domine forum to be so provocative. Aug-05-11    chancho: User: teacher Aug-05-11    Domdaniel: <provocative> Indeed ... at the *vocational school* they asked if I had a *vocation* ... all because I'd found a way to summon up memories by addressing letters of the alphabet. Evocative, it was. Aug-05-11    Domdaniel: *Anaspinnaque cloaca*. Down & Dirty. Aug-05-11    Domdaniel: <chancho> Does User: teacher own User: pet? Aug-06-11    hms123: <Games played by top US GMs are part of the historical record, regardless of the quality of the opposition.> Well nuanced. Aug-06-11    OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PI... Aug-06-11    Domdaniel: <HMS (15129^0.5)> Thanks. Petty squabbles and bursts of flame aside, I think the point has the advantage of being true. It would be criminal to delete a Nakamura game. I've just been rereading and enjoying the late Bill Hook's autobiography, Hooked on Chess ... there was a guy who played the Winawer against Fischer and Short, who won an olympiad medal and featured on a postage stamp ... and is scrupulous in referring to his 'weak master' status. People respond better to humble than to the other thing -- assuming human interaction is your goal rather than total world domination. Aug-06-11    mworld: malp on a stick really doesn't work as well as it should. Aug-08-11    Domdaniel: And this is 19k. Aug-08-11    dakgootje: Congratulations! Did you know, if I post an additional 85 posts, you will approximately have pi-times more posts - accurate to about the first 10 numbers. Although a major flaw in that plan is that it supposes you will not post; and that it doesn't really matter in any case. Aug-08-11    Domdaniel: <dak> You mean 6048? I can only get it to work as far as 3.1415... then it has a 3 instead of a 9. Innaresting, though. 6048 is also 1/60th of 9! -- but you knew that. Aug-08-11    mworld: wow. Think about how many books worth that number could be. I'd say about every 4 posts of yours could break down into one large page of a book...looking at a 5 book series there - large books too. Aug-09-11    dakgootje: It worked yesterday night.. and I was not drunk :( Aug-09-11    Domdaniel: Innaresting. *Dak Numbers*, or numbers which "worked yesterday" ... is there, I wonder, a fixed number of Dak Numbers under one billion? One trillion? The nth Mersenne prime? Or do all these things change from day to day too? Is this, finally, a completely chaotic number system, where Riemann's hypothesis holds every other Tuesday and you can't trust Godel when there's a 'G' in the month? Giun, Giuly, August ... Aug-09-11    dakgootje: Certainly - there is a fixed number, which happens to change. I suspect the amount and direction of the change are due to the interference of the number with itself. My experiments have shown the number is ever-changing when you ask a fixed question; and fixed when you ask a changing question. So far it has therefore not been established whether it is a real number or an imaginary number. I call this the 'imagined reality'-duality - it will become a very important term in the field of quantum-mathematics. Aug-09-11    OhioChessFan: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OyNYqunw9... Aug-09-11    dakgootje: We are all taking part in the dream of the Red King - he'd better not wake up. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 744 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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