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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 870 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-29-13    OhioChessFan: Ahh, the begging Ethiopian. Nice to read the rants of <JoeWms> and <Chopin> and <RolandTesh> and <WMD> The Marker summary sounds like a serious Venter of Gravitas. Sep-29-13    Thanh Phan: via 9GAG Here's my number. http://9gag.com/gag/a2N4QPO?ref=fbp Sep-30-13    Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> Heh. Who do you think I am, Ramanujan? Once upon a time I *could* have solved those equations, but I don't think I have the energy anymore... Nice, though. Sep-30-13    Thanh Phan: I held something along the same thoughts, it's possible with a careful step by step process, just the energy needed to gather, collect, maintain and continue the exact line in the equation seems a bit much Oct-01-13    Domdaniel: 'October the First is Too Late' - Fred Hoyle Oct-01-13    Domdaniel: The Wisdom of ... Jennifer Saunders: "You just think, well if I put this or that in, I'm only going to get a punch back. And then you've got to keep fighting, and what's the point? You might as well just walk away and never see them again, that's what my thing is. And anyway, who they are is their business, it doesn't have to affect you. They're not going to change who they are. They're only going to get angry with you, and give you more of their sheet. So I just always think, can't be bothered. Can't be bothered to have an argument." Very pertinent, very wise... Oct-02-13    OhioChessFan: At the end of the day, if you beat up an idiot, they're still an idiot. Oct-02-13    Domdaniel: < if you beat up an idiot, they're still an idiot.> And you're still a violent thug. *All persons named in this post are fictional. No attempt has been made to identify the innocent, as god almighty rewards the innocent as a matter of heavenly routine.* Oct-03-13    WCC Editing Project: <Dom> your last post on the new "public fight forum" caught my eye and started me thinking of University days for some reason. Did you ever read that paeon to the soap opera- by <Todorov> if I'm not mistaken? He really seemed to dig them, and not just as an excuse to write an essay on narratology either. The part about them never, ever ending is indeed fascinating. I watched Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" three times, and on one of those occasions I was sober. It always seemed "soap operaish" to me for some reason, although it certainly has an ending. A truly horrific ending I might add. I was forced to watch all of Fassbinder's films because I was seeing an affable, albeit sociopathic lad who had convinced the Montreal Goethe Society to "lend" him the films, which he proceeded to copy before returning them. Those were the days. Or so it seems now anyway. Probably they weren't. Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: <Jess> I admit to having gone through a Fassbinder phase myself. Not sure why ... he was a bisexual melodramatic coke fiend, and I wasn't. But even when he was dead, his regular company made quite a good film about his life and times, with Fassbinder naturally played by a woman, Eva Mattes. I also admit to having read Tzvetan Todorov, but luckily I don't remember any of it. My knowledge of soap opera comes from accidental viewings of scenes from Eastenders - which mostly involve people yelling at one another while carrying out murders and abortions and, eh, laundry, all in rhyming slang. Incidentally, I have never seen a chess reference in a soap. 'Quality' TV, from The Prisoner to The Wire, often features chess -- but not soaps. Oct-03-13    Karpova: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: <Karpova> Thanks for that -- I was quite a big Prisoner fan once, though I was too young for the original broadcast. Luckily, the BBC showed it again in the late 80s, and I was hooked. For a moment there I thought you might be presenting me with a Winteresque list of chess references in soaps, so I'm glad to see that my thesis still holds: The Prisoner & The Wire, yes; Soaps, no. Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: <Alchemy Notes> Pamper your Goldfish, and it becomes a Uranium Fish. Oct-03-13    Thanh Phan: <Domdaniel: 'October the First is Too Late' - Fred Hoyle> Became curious from seeing that, after a search on the goodreads site I found the book, looks like a good read, thankyou :) Oct-03-13    hms123: <Dom> I think the current soap opera refers to the need for copious amounts of soap with which to wash up after viewing the nonsense for too long. Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> As I remember (it's a long time since I read it, though the title continues to resonate) 'October the First...' *is* a good read ... and Hoyle, of course, was a member of the select band of leading scientists who also wrote science fiction. I have an extra reason for remembering it: I had a Penguin paperback edition with a cover design by David Pelham -- a brilliant designer who also created covers for JG Ballard, Alfred Bester, Anthony Burgess, and others. Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: <hms> Interestingly, my off-the-cuff 'soap' comment has attracted comment from Annie, Jess, and you ... perhaps the three most enlightened persons round here. I'm flattered, natch. But yes, the nonsense *has* gone on too long. CG wipe out a bunch of nasty vitriolic posts, then it starts all over again. One of my minor hobbies is cut-ups: deranging text in the manner of William Burroughs or Tristan Tzara. Or audio, in the style of John Cage, who said "Every sound we make is music, and everyone is in the best seat". He also wrote musical pieces for randomly dialled radio... So, in this fashion, I turn on a radio, listen for a few seconds, then turn it off. Recently I heard "I have noticed an unpleasant focus..." Rings a bell. Oct-03-13    Domdaniel: Apropos recent name-dropping: I was pleased to see John Cage and Anthony Burgess feature in the list of David Bowie's top 100 books, as seen at a Canadian exhibition. A well-read chap, Dave. Oct-03-13    Annie K.: For anyone who happens to be interested, what I said was: needs more soap and less opera. ;p Oct-04-13    Domdaniel: <SF News> I just started reading Kurt Vonnegut's 'Galapagos'. Though I've been a Vonnegut admirer for a very long time, I somehow missed this one. Oct-05-13    Annie K.: And I ordered Pynchon's Lot 49, but it's not here yet. ;) Oct-05-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> OK, I'll recite it from memory. It starts something like ... <One afternoon Oedipa Maas returned from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue, to find that she had been named executor, or, she supposed, executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a real estate mogul who had once lost a million dollars in his spare time but still possessed assets tangled enough to ...> ... and so on. Oct-05-13    Annie K.: Heh - thanks! I think I can wait for the book to arrive, to find out the continuation. ;D Oct-05-13    Domdaniel: Incidentally, a non-SF novel by M. John Harrison, <Climbers>, has just been reissued in the same series/design as the Kefahuchi trilogy. I haven't read it, though his other non-SF novels such as 'Course of the Heart' are very good. Harrison has a masterly feel for linguistic textures. Oct-11-13    waustad: Perhaps you'd like the new profile photo of Ticia Gara on google+: https://plus.google.com/10506265647... 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