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 762 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <Branko> A charivari of Chameleonic chimpanzees could improve it. Chill, I charge thee. Oct-12-11    dakgootje: <A Domdaniel - it's a noun> It's one of the words I would have least expected of nounery. Frankly, it might be due to the name-part. Oct-12-11    hms123: <jess> It sounds like Poe. "Tell-tale Heart"? Probably not. Oct-12-11    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Domdaniel> Have you been naughty or nice this year? ...actually, let's just decide you've been nice. Quack, quack, quack. I Shvyrjov vs A Kalinichev, 2005 click for larger view <11.Nd4? c5! 12.dxc6 bxc6> click for larger view White has no adequate defence to the threat of 13...c5. Oct-12-11    Hugin: The chance i get presents from Santa this year is slim....Santa have put old Hugin on ignore:(. From my snow castle up in the north it puzzles me a bit, what have i said or not said that deserved that?. Well i guess i've have to live with it whatever the case is. Cheers Oct-12-11    hms123: <jess> Of course, <Tell Tale Heart> is a short story, not a novel. It still sounds like Poe. Oct-12-11    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Hugin> Santa doesn't have you on ignore anymore. As for why he did... let's leave all that stuff in the past, which is where it belongs; this post (Hugin chessforum) is good enough for me. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <Jess> Le Troisieme Policier, by Flaneur O'Burrito. "Is it about a bicycle?" Oct-12-11    Shams: Google is no help on this one: http://bit.ly/odXJPZ No burrito for shammies. (N.B. I wouldn't have cheated for the burrito. To cross that line I'd need the whole enchilada.) Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <Switch Q> Why, bless my sole if you aren't the spratting image of old wotsisname -- Hugh Courteney? -- who did an xmassy Chess quiz for Chess magazine in times of yore. "Sit by the fire with a glass of McSpurg's Old Peculiar, put your socks up on the haddock, get out the old chessboard and bend your head round this. White to take back a move and play *anything* else, and Black to mate in one." I've always thought of Santa's naughty/nice list as Judaeo-Xtianity writ small. But perhaps that's better than a Cosmic Potlatch. Philip K Dick said that first, but he also thought Jesus Christ was orbiting the Roman empire in a satellite from which he fired pink laser-like beams of information into people's heads. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <Jess> I like that Karen Elson. Sort of a female Nick Cave Murder Ballad type? Here's some of Mr. Cale: http://youtu.be/O6Z8-WZWIfI Oct-12-11    jessicafischerqueen: <Howard> your answer was largely correct, except for the part about <Poe>. Oct-12-11    jessicafischerqueen: <dom> congratulations! Yes it is indeed from <Brien O'Nuallain's> unforgettable "The Third Policeman." Unfortunately, since I already posted that line six times before in your forum, you're disqualified from any prizes. If you care to take issue with this, please tender your claim to my lawyer, <hms123>. Oct-12-11    jessicafischerqueen: <dom> so you checked <Karen> out eh? Yes very much like Nick in that respect. She's a largely unknown gem. <Mr. Cale> is not unknown, but he's also a gem. He was kind enough to give Bob Dylan's best friend some work on that song eh? Oct-12-11    hms123: <jess> I am seriously miffed at myself. I read The Third Flic last year. I knew that I had read that line. Pooh! Oct-12-11    jessicafischerqueen: <H> excellent guess, but <Pooh> was not in fact created in England, as many suppose. <Pooh> was created in Canada when <A.A. Milne> saw a bear at the Winnipeg Zoo. Later, drug-soaked ex Rolling Stones member <Brian Jones> drowned in A.A. Milne's swimming pool. He had purchased <Milne's> mansion because he enjoyed the <Pooh> books, and because he was richer than Croesus at the time. I hope that's cleared up your confusion! Poor Brian... Oct-12-11    hms123: Sest la Vie! Oct-12-11    LIFE Master AJ: Hey, how are you? I had not heard anything for a few days, I thought I would drop in and say hello. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <AJ> Oh, I'm fine, thanks. As you can see (probably!) this place is set to run on automatic, and gets on fine without me. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <hms> I think Poe would have written something like "I struck him repeatedly with the poker until weariness overcame me". He might even have snuck a word such as 'frenzy' in somewhere, to show that this wasn't his normal frame of mind. There's an affectless peasant brutality to "I hit him with the shovel until my arms grew tired" -- for the narrator, the hitting and the growing tired are both observations he makes in the course of the day. He doesn't think he's a monster. But *we* do. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <chess break> A variation from Geller-Petrosian, Gagra 1953. If White had played 22.Bxd7 (instead of 22.Bc4) this position would have resulted: click for larger view Black wins with the incredible 22...Rfe8!! eg, 23.Bxe8 Qa1+ 24.Kd2 Rd8+ 25.Bd4 Rxd4+ 26.Qxd4 Nf3+ 27.Kd3 Qa6+ 28.Qc4 Nxe1+ 29.Kc3 Qa5+ 30.Kb3 Qb6+ 31.Kc3 Qxf2 winning. Oct-12-11    Domdaniel: <SwitchingQ> That's a genuine case of *impending unavoidable pawn-fork doom*, all right. With the required en passant preamble, even. Thanks. I knew the situation had to have turned up *somewhere*... Oct-12-11    OhioChessFan: <eg, 23.Bxe8 Qa1+ 24.Kd2 Rd8+ 25.Bd4 Rxd4+ 26.Qxd4 Nf3+ 27.Kd3 Qa6+> <27. Ke3> Your move click for larger view Oct-13-11    Domdaniel: <Ohio> Hmm. After 27.Ke3 then the obvious 27...Qxe1+ 28.Kxf3 Qxe8 29.Qxa7 looks like a drawish Queen ending. What about 27...Nxd4 28.Rxa1 Nxc2+ 29.Kd3 Nxa1 ...? If the Knight can survive, maybe with some help from the Black ab-pawns, then Black should win the ending. Um, maybe it's not so easy to extricate. Oh well, there's always the *other* winning line, with 22...Rac8! instead of 22...Rfe8!!? Oct-13-11    Domdaniel: Or - in the 22...Rfe8 line - deviate earlier with 26...Qxe1+ 27.Kxe1 Nf3+ when Black has an extra pawn in a N-vs-B ending, with the Knight well placed. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 762 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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