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 875 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-25-13    Thanh Phan: He Wants people to die, He Prays for people to get run over or 'Meet him' with various notes saying he has enough weapons to influence the Outcome, Welcome to the family friendly site! Oct-25-13    Annie K.: <Dom> I'll just spam your forum with this crucially relevant link right now: http://dorinta19.bizland.ro/FLOWERS... - 'Flowers for Algernon' by Daniel Keyes, the short story version. More later. :) <Jess> you're worth feeding, did you know that? ;) That story should be of interest to you too, if you don't know it - you'll understand why. Oct-25-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> Thanks, I'm familiar with 'Flowers for Algernon', a great story. A loosely related work of fiction is 'Camp Concentration' by Thomas Disch ... a brilliant short novel which, in my opinion, gets inside genius in a way that nobody else has... ... not that I would know anything about genius, of course. Oct-25-13    Annie K.: You've mentioned that before. :) But, for me, Flowers for Algernon was never about genius. It's the other end of the spectrum that had always fascinated me in that story. Oct-25-13    Domdaniel: <Jess> -- < We've discussed him before, years ago now, with reference to John Hurt's fine performance in the biopic.> I also met the brilliant Mr Hurt a couple of times. Once, by chance, on a plane where I was sitting near him, and some troll-like passengers chose to mock the fact that he'd had a drink or two. And then an arranged interview, a couple of years later, where he was marvellously scathing about the bad art decorating the hotel room where we met. Oct-25-13    Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <Some of us were there with you eh?> Very true. And some of those who were there with me were explicitly not mentioned in my recent posts. Because I had the impression that such mentions were a bad idea... Oct-25-13    Domdaniel: < But I don't think it's fair to hit him over the head for being a hypocritical "Christian."> Yes it is. Xtianity screwed him up. Oct-27-13    Domdaniel: "God - my favourite fictional character." - Homer Simpson Oct-27-13    Annie K.: <Oops, sorry, I hadn't noticed that you'd moved in.> Oh, sorry, I should probably have mentioned it... I'll just redecorate a couple of rooms over here, you don't mind, right? ;) Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: No tomcats, pls. Female felines only admitted. ;) Male cats are like (some) chessplayers -- self-centred aggressive brutes. With an odd smell. Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: Things we learn from 'Itchy & Scratchy': 1. Don't trust mice. 2. Cats are made of glass. Oct-29-13    Annie K.: Neutering helps... probably in both cases. ;) Oct-29-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: Nah, they tried that once and it didn't help, unless Scratchy being sliced to bits counts a success :) Oct-29-13    Annie K.: Heh. 'Fraid I don't rilly have a klu as to who Itchy and Scratchy are supposed to be. However, neutering does help wrt the smell and agressivity issues of male cats - and I reckon it might help those chessplayers too, at least according to Robert Sawyer. ;s Oct-29-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <agressivity> Is that a legitimate word or a misspelling? Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: "A (Florida) Police Officer Never Forgets". You have been warned. Officer Blayne Doyle shot an elephant and shed a tear. Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: <Annie> Oh, dear. First the Velvet Underground, now The Simpsons. These things are pivotal to modern culture, yanno. Wilfully avoiding them is not just an idiosyncrasy, and certainly not a principled disengagement from pop-cultural trivia -- it's a crime against humanity. Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: "A (Florida) Police Officer Never Forgets"... Ahem. The link: http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/... Oct-29-13    Annie K.: <Switch> uh, typo. I'm still at work and typing in a hurry on an iPhone, yanno. :p <Dom> once again, omit 'wilfully'... other than that, I may plead guilty, but I'm sure humanity deserved it. ;) Oct-29-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: <Annie K.: <Switch> uh, typo. I'm still at work and typing in a hurry on an iPhone, yanno. :p> You know, enough comments like that and one day I'll think you missed the joke :-) Oct-29-13    Annie K.: Inconceivable! *...hope I didn't mistype that one...* ;) Oct-29-13    SwitchingQuylthulg: Strange expression, that. Is an inconceivable thing conceivable? Oct-29-13    Domdaniel: <Is an inconceivable thing conceivable?> Only before breakfast. Oct-29-13    Annie K.: Well no... but the abstract idea of the general existence of inconceivable things is, and then the theoretical extrapolation that this might be one of them. :) Oct-29-13    Annie K.: <Dom> heh. :) <Switch> just in case you're thinking to argue that the fact that you described something proves that it's not inconceivable... ;) A description doesn't have to be conceivable. For instance, I could talk about 'parched wetness'. The words exist, and nobody can prevent me putting them together. The concepts exist, separately. But put them together, and unless I'm mistaken, the described thing is inconceivable. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 875 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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