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 894 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-16-14    Annie K.: Quoit! Write you are. :) Feb-28-14    Domdaniel: Er, yes. Mar-01-14    OhioChessFan: <And since I paid a short visit to Limerick (the place giving the name to the AABBA rhymes), I soon started to think in sketches of... limericks: chess/excess/Guinness... I don’t have poetic talent, but maybe the reader will be able to fill in the missing words?> A lovely lady with a pint of Guiness Invited me to play with her, chess I first thought to skewer Or run a pin straight through 'er Mating her met with success Mar-02-14    Domdaniel: If it doesn't sound like doggerel, it isn't a real limerick: prosody and stress are important. So that one might be modified thusly: There was a young gal with a Guinness Who asked me to play her at chess I may live in Cork But I know how to fork And a mate is a sign of success. OK, not really much better... Mar-02-14    Annie K.: Heh... maybe you should go back to chasing hice...? ;p Mar-03-14    Domdaniel: Oh, I say, that's not very nice Your review: an emphatic 'no dice' I'd live in some domes With Sherlock, or Holmes And only chase hice once or twice. Mar-03-14    Annie K.: Aww, hon, I was not criticizing your poetry, just your timing? ;) Mar-09-14    Shams: <Domdaniel> What do you play against the Tarrasch French? Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> Most recently, 3...c5 with ...Qxd5 (Chistiakov, I think?). But in the past I've played, after 3.Nd2, let me see, hmmm ... 3...b6 (draw with Tony Miles in Dark Ages), 3...a6, 3...Nf6, 3...Nc6, 3...dxe4 ... I don't recall ever playing 3...f5 or 3...h6 in a serious game, but give me time. Mar-10-14    Shams: <Domdaniel> Everything but Moro's <3...Be7>! Do you like your games after 3...c5<?> Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> Yeah, 3...Be7 was quite popular for a while -- I think Romanishin popularized it in the 1980s. As for 3...c5, I like playing the Chistiakov 'main line' after 4.exd5 Qxd5 ... but many players seem to prefer 4.Ngf3, which doesn't necessarily transpose. I've lost a couple of those recently -- in one of them I completely lost the thread, mixed up variations, and lost a brutal miniature ... which is a very rare event in the French for me. I'm thinking of switching lines again ... 3...a6, maybe. Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: Questions, questions... "So, then, eh. Did you return the money? And, um, where did you do the, uh, other business?" "Repaid? Not I. Did it on diaper." Mar-10-14    Annie K.: Some people will do anything for a good pal in Drome... :) Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: <A> A *plainer Dom* might consider that it *ran a mag* ... if upset, as it were. Mar-10-14    Annie K.: :D Heh, ok, you get the full point for that one. Your reward will be an -- (I know how you love those...) -- <Advice> If you don't care for lice Or chasing after mice Then never get your hice From a guy named Ed Trice. ;) Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: Good old Topsy, eh? Whatever became of him and his bunny rabbit chums, Flopsy, Mopsy and Triceratops? I guess he wasn't so memorable after all... Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: "Rejoice! A choice slice of hice ... a crisis, nice for the vice of Zeiss and Fleiss, no dice, brown rice, call the, eh, police..." Mar-10-14    Domdaniel: NB. Strictly no hidden message. Just words, is all. Mar-10-14    Annie K.: ...and words are your business... :) Mar-16-14    OhioChessFan: <So, then, eh. Did you return the money? And, um, where did you do the, uh, other business?"> I gave it to the Monied Lad. The other business was Demon Laid. Mar-22-14    jessicafischerqueen: <There is no Lundin-Smyslov 1956 in the results because that game was played in 1954> Sophistry! What's up <Dom>? Thanks for your humor on the front page, though I noticed some maths there earlier that was apparently self-deleted. I think <John Barleycorn> maybe wanted to keep his complaint about "correction slips" front and center. QUESTION: On average, how many just words come from the mouths of Irish judges? I only know about Korean judges. They are free to give the harshest penalties against white collar criminals, which are never actually enacted because the President can "pardon" at will. And he does. Of course now he is a she, so maybe the jury's still out. Mar-22-14    Domdaniel: <Jess> -- < how many just words come from the mouths of Irish judges? > Too many, I think. This used to bug me -- that the more eccentric but highly quotable judges tended to get reported in the media -- which was sometimes far more trouble for the guilty party than the actual fine or sanction imposed by the court. An example. Many years ago, two friends of mine were 'up' for a minor dope offense. They were fined about £10, which should have been the end of the matter. But no - the judge had to go into a riff along the lines of "Heh, it's no worse than the drink, really, but if you keep it up you'll be dead by the age of 30", which was reported in the media under the headline "Drugs Men get Death warning". Which was then picked up by local papers in their hometowns. And both guys ended up leaving the country due to family pressure etc. It always struck me as deeply unfair. Of course the state is entitled to fine them, or whatever the sanction may be. But the fact that a 'quotable' judge should lead to a media soundbite and a whole extra layer of punishment just seems wrong. This happened to *real* friends, btw, not me in disguise. I'm too smart to get caught. Also (hello there, monitor software!) I don't ever break the law these days. Mar-24-14    jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> What a horrifying story. A lenient, yet fatuous judge, and a populace behaving as if they've never understood a <Sinead O'Connor> record. I suppose it's as if she never existed now. This wasn't written by Sinead, but I think it's on topic viz your story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEV... Mar-28-14    Domdaniel: Until late in 2012, I had copies of about 75% of my games, dating back to 1974. Then I lost most of them in a fire, which destroyed two computers along with many original scoresheets. Last week, moving house again, I somehow managed to 'lose' most of the surviving scores. As of now, I have maybe 5 scoresheets (!) plus another 20 games in this or other online databases. So it goes. Mar-31-14    waustad: <dom>I may still own many scores, but I'm such a slob that I couldn't find them without kicking us so much dust that I'd be in the hospital (asthma). I may regret this and I often nuke posts like this but, I really need to move into: 1.) a better climate - the last winter in North America, at least Ohio, was brutal 2.) a place where somebody else has to deal with repairs and such - my house is well over 100 years old and repairs don't last long and it always needs work 3.) I need somebody to come in and clean, I'm a hopeless slob on my own and if I know somebody's coming I'll try to keep it together a bit more 4.) a working dishwasher - I love to cook but just do enough to keep me fed because I hate to clean. The joys of being a 60 something lifer bachelor. I used to even cook professionally so I do make good food when my life is together. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 894 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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