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 869 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-21-13    Domdaniel: <IRL> One of the most irreal-feeling places on the planet ... yet it can be confused with <in real life>. Strange, that. There's nothing *real* about this neck of the woods... Sep-21-13    Annie K.: Hon, it's not the woods. Wherever you go, there you are... and would feel about the same. ;s Sep-21-13    OhioChessFan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zww7... Sep-22-13    Domdaniel: "And my head is my only house, unless it rains". Sep-22-13    Domdaniel: "The game of chess, like love, religion, and British politics, should never be taken too seriously." -- Harry Golombek. Sep-22-13    Annie K.: #1 Xactly. :) #2 That Golombek fellow seems to have had a flair for p**ing off *everybody* all at once, didn't he? ;p Sep-22-13    Domdaniel: <A> Only people who believe in love or religion or British politics ... and they can't be serious, can they? Sep-22-13    Annie K.: ...or chess, eh? And they all are. :) Sep-22-13    Domdaniel: But only a particular type of humourless person, Shirley, would be p***ed off by the suggestion that an activity (or whatever) should not be taken seriously... Sometimes I think that the word 'serious' is a linguistic misunderstanding ... as when Russians say "he is not a serious person". *Of course* I am not a serious person -- seriosity is to be avoided. But maybe 'serious' means something else in Slavic cultures? I wouldn't know: I'm not serious. Sep-22-13    Annie K.: It kinda means reliable, dependable, mature, or somesuch. Heh. Sep-22-13    Domdaniel: No it doesn't: it means po-faced. Not that I'm reliable, dependable, mature, or somesuch... Sep-22-13    Annie K.: It's amazing how many adjectives 'somesuch' can cover! =) Sep-23-13    Domdaniel: Adjectives such as: jejune, grue, heterosemantic, poluphloisboiotatotic, crotchety, poptastic, sublingual, corrugated, and tertius. No pattern here, incidentally. Just the old stream of semi-consciousness doing its thing. Sep-23-13    Domdaniel: The word 'poluphloisboiotatotic' was invented by an English poet - Thackeray, maybe - in a misguided attempt to create an English adjective from Homer's Greek superlative 'polyphloisboio thalasses' -- 'of the much-roaring sea'. Sep-23-13    Domdaniel: An (old?) quote from <OhioChessFan>, courtesy of <Karpova>: < I am a small boy in ummmmm, Ethiopia. I have pretended to be from this place called "Ohio", because I hear that the people in America have food to eat and also many pictures of Jessica Simpson to look at for free on magazine covers. Please make a starving boy happy and send him a free America Chessgames Premium Membership. And also some free Jessica Simpson pictures.> Heh. I like it. And it reminds me of a cartoon I saw many years ago. Boris and Natasha are sitting in their Siberian hovel, about to tuck into a meal of black bread. And Boris, a good Soviet citizen, says: "Natasha, before we enjoy this bounty, provided to us by the Soviet state, let us spare a thought for the American peasant, who has to *pay* for his bread". Ouch. Capitalism is cruel. Sep-25-13    Domdaniel: <many pictures of Jessica Simpson to look at> No relation whatsoever. Not to Lisa or Bart or Marge or Homer or anyone else you might have in mind. Sep-25-13    Annie K.: Heh - here's yer context, quite a ways back indeed: Kibitzer's Café Sep-25-13    Domdaniel: <A> Lordy, '05? Was that "1905"? Have you got a time machine? Speakina which, it's amazing the things one finds on the interweb. I was invited to an exhibition of images from the films of Chris Marker -- and I remembered dimly having written about him in the 1990s ... in fact, I remembered somebody telling me that they'd shown my article to Marker, and he had approved, which was nice. But then I found this: Filmwest, No 37, July 1999, pp20-22. Chris Marker, Marking Time, by Gerry McCarthy. This article looks at the life and work of Marker and the influences that have marked (!) his career. McCarthy pays particular attention to Marker's interest in science fiction, for example the use of time travel in La Jetee (1962) and computer technology, communications and video games in the film Level Five (1997). Incredible. This McCarthy person must have had half a brain once... Sep-25-13    Annie K.: Not even a space machine. ;s And the difference in you, if any, has more to do with energy levels than intelligence, of which you still possess plenty. :) Sep-25-13    Domdaniel: <A> That's sweet. It's... a ... theory... (energy levels dropping even further....) Sep-26-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> As I *may* have mentioned before, you're rather perceptive. Sep-26-13    Domdaniel: OK then, it might as well be here: my (23 x 10^3)th post. I've become a kilo-icosatriphiliac. Sep-26-13    Annie K.: Oh dear. Is it contagious? PS - erm... 'yeah, I noticed'? ;) Sep-26-13    Domdaniel: Of course you did. ;) Sep-28-13    Domdaniel: I just watched Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version of 'The 39 Steps' -- brilliant. Madeleine Carroll looked strangely like Blondie's Debbie Harry, c. 1979. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 869 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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