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 871 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: I'm playing in a chess match tomorrow, for the first time in about eight months. As Mr Cohen wrote in another context ('Queen Victoria'), I feel like a cast-iron exhibition. Rusty. Wish me, if not luck, then *non-embarrassment*, eh? Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: <waustad> Eye eye! "Linger on, your pale blue eyes..." It's all in the optics. Oct-11-13    Annie K.: Hey! Make creaking sounds and mow'em down. :) Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: Creaking sounds? You want I should get banned for using an ancient engine? "Is that a Turk in your pocket, or ...?" Oct-11-13    Annie K.: Heh, the good old days, when machines were cheating with human help... Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: <Worst Pynchon puns ...> <Pokémon>: a Rastafarian proctologist. Scooby-Doo's Colombian Adventure: <Those Medellin Kids!> Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> - I actually met a guy named Inverarity last year - a Scottish lawyer rather than a Californian mogul, but otherwise quite Pynchonesque. So, naturally, I informed him that 'Inverarity' was thought, by literary scholars, to be a play on 'inverse rarity', a type of postage stamp prized by collectors. And then I launched into *that* opening sentence ... <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 he gave me a strange look. Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: I suppose I should be brushing up my French ... Ohh, merde, bon soir, mesdames et messieurs ... Oct-11-13    Shams: <Domdaniel> <So, naturally, I informed him that 'Inverarity' was thought, by literary scholars, to be a play on 'inverse rarity', a type of postage stamp prized by collectors.> The most famous, I believe, is the Inverted Jenny, a biplane stamp printed upside down. I stopped myself from making a terrible pun on this the other day. Votava vs F Jenni, 2001 Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: <Shams> -- < I stopped myself from making a terrible pun on this the other day.> And a good thing too, I suspect. I wouldn't have got it -- though perhaps that notorious philatelist, A.Karpov, would have. Oct-11-13    OhioChessFan: Now is as good a time as any to mention your anagram friend, <Monied Lad>. Oct-11-13    Domdaniel: <Ohio> Amazingly, I think that's a new one. Either that, or my memory is failing ... Oct-12-13    Annie K.: Heheh... Hey, wasn't that about the time when you were speculating about Sportello being an Irish, rather than Italian, name? Maybe Pynchon does have Irish, erm, origins... ;) How many games is that match? Oct-12-13    Domdaniel: A game ... hey, I sacked a Knight ... White: LH (Cork) (1700) Black: Dom aka GM (1836) Munster Lge tt. 1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 e5 3.Bg2 c6 (I don't think I've used this defence against the English before, but I've been meaning to do so ... ever since, um, the 1970s, when Kennefick played it against me - the notorious 4 Queens game.) 4.d4 e4 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.e3 (?) (too passive - White needs to fight for initiative with moves like 7.Bg5 or 7.f3) 7...Nc6 8.Nge2 Bd6 9.a3 0-0 10.0-0 Bg4 (Black is better) 11.Bd2 Qd7 12.b4 Ne7 13.Qb3 Bf3 14.Nf4 Bxf4 15.exf4 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Nf5 17.Be3 Nh4+ click for larger view 18.gxh4 Qg4+ 19.Kh1 Qf3+ 20.Kg1 Ng4!? (engines reckon Black should take the draw) 21.Rfe1 (?) (better 21.f5, so that if 21...Qh3 22.Bf4) 21...Qh3 22.Qd1 Nxh2 (now Black wins) 23.f3 Nxf3+ 24.Kf2 Nxe1 25.Qxe1 Rac8 26.Bd2 Qf3+ 27.Kg1 Rc6 28.Qf2 Rxc3 (...Rg6+ also wins) 29.Bxc3 Qxc3 30.Re1 Qxa3 31.f5 f6 32.h5 Qh3 33.Re3 Qxh5 34.Rg3 Rc8 35.Qf4 Qd1+ 36.Kh2 Rc2+ 37.Kh3 Qh1+ 0-1 (38.Kg4 h5#) Oct-12-13    Annie K.: Neat job, congrats! =) Oct-12-13    Domdaniel: <A> Thanks. I was quite pleased with my play in this game, especially as it was my first in 8 or 9 months. But then I played a 2nd game, and lost horribly in 20 moves. I totally misplayed a Tarrasch French (ouch) and was lost in the opening. So it goes. Oct-12-13    Annie K.: Ah well... OTB chess is largely a function of stamina, and one game can be exhausting when you're out of practice. Play more? :) Oct-13-13    Domdaniel: <A> Yeah, I guess I will, at that. Next match(es) coming up in about a month. And then I may try a weekend swiss event in December. I seem to confound my own expectations. Going into the first game I felt rusty, not very well, not too confident. I might even have been content to draw, never mind that my opponent is rated about 40 points lower, and I beat him in 15 moves the last time we played. But then I saw that he was playing much too passively, with moves like e3 and a3. Not *bad* moves exactly, but slow and uninspired - the kind of stuff that strong players tend to crush. I've been on the receiving end myself, and have tried to sharpen up my game as a result of seeing how such routine play is punished. This is actually a hobby-horse of mine - something that's very clear in games between Masters and, say, players in the 1700-2200 range. The weaker players don't usually blunder badly, they understand the basics of positional chess, and so on. But the GMs and IMs are *much* more alert to opportunities, even in the opening, and will punish any weak move. Playing among themselves, those 1700-2200 types make a lot of routine moves: develop, castle, maneuver, attack or defend. But they're less likely to *pounce* -- the way GMs, and cats, do. I'm trying to improve my pouncing skills. As for confounding my own expectations: feeling rusty, I won a fairly nice game with a piece sac. My confidence thus boosted, I went on to play disastrously in the 2nd game. Think I'd better go back to being rusty. Oct-13-13    Annie K.: <I'm trying to improve my pouncing skills.> http://chess.emrald.net ;) Oct-13-13    Domdaniel: "I'll never be your beast of Burden..." ... < Burden taught de Vere chess. De Vere was sometime chess editor of the “Field” but consumption and an ill-considered life ended a brilliant chess career at the age of 30. Burden was a man of many parts. He was a strong whist player with eccentric notions as to original leads. At billiards he was, for an amateur, fairly expert. Besides these recreations he was a chemist, a mathematician, and a scholar of no mean repute. His great handicap was his lack of health.> Plus ca change. Oct-13-13    Domdaniel: <A> I could forgive a site for using the spelling 'emrald' -- but not for having, just three lines in, the words "wich have"... Not that I'm a pedant or anything. Oct-13-13    Domdaniel: <A> Maybe I don't fully understand what <emrald> is about, but I had the impression it was devoted to puzzles and combinations ... which isn't really the kind of opportunity I'm talking about. The opportunities that I mean don't necessarily result in a forced win - and certainly not a mate in x moves or a win of the enemy queen. They are more subtle, often occurring in the opening, and giving the alert player a chance of seizing an advantage - but the game isn't over. Oct-13-13    Annie K.: A pendant, then? ;) Heh. It's just a typo... forgive them, for they are but a German site? And a bloody useful service, too. Rather nice of them, ackshly. :) Emrald is exactly the site to practice just what you have in mind. Most of their puzzles are just about looking at a position that has a tactical opportunity for gaining an advantage, and spotting it. It's usually not a mate-in-x kind of exercise, except maybe for the examples given at the lower rating ranges, which I haven't seen in years... but even if you are given a few of those, if you solve them, you'll get a higher rating, and will be given more subtle and complex problems to solve. Just try it and see what it's actually like? Oct-13-13    Domdaniel: <Just try it and see what it's actually like?> Heh. Story of my life. Oct-15-13    MarkFinan: Dom, do you think that I'm this Overgod bloke? 👎 He's not me, mate 😵 ✌ Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 871 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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