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 900 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-12-14    Annie K.: I'm sure. Sent you the file by mail... ;p Jun-12-14    Domdaniel: <A> Ah. Thanks. I'm glad you're sure, and I'm sure you're glad, sure. And begorrah. Jun-12-14    Annie K.: I sure am glad you're glad I'm sure, and you're also welcome, Shirley. ;) G'♘! Jun-13-14    Domdaniel: What was it that some Dickens character said? "I am sure and certain, Biddy." Jun-14-14    Annie K.: But he wasn't *positive*, was he? 'Just call me Edna'. ;) Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Heh - there's a tie-in here, though that occurred to me later... <"We can tell if you are lying," Thagobar continued. "It will do you no good to tell us untruths. Now - what is your name?" "Theophilus Q. Hassenpfeffer," Magruder said blandly. Zandoplith looked at a quivering needle and then shook his head slowly as he looked up at Thagobar. "That is a lie," said Thagobar. The specimen nodded. "It sure is. That's quite a machine you've got there." "It is good that you appreciate the superiority of our instruments," Thagobar said grimly. "Now - your name." "Edwin Peter St. John Magruder." Psychologist Zandoplith watched the needle and nodded. "Excellent," said Thagobar. "Now, Edwin-" "Ed is good enough," said Magruder. Thagobar blinked. "Good enough for what?" "For calling me." Thagobar turned to the psychologist and mumbled something. Zandoplith mumbled back. Thagobar spoke to the specimen. "Is your name Ed?" "Strictly speaking, no," said Magruder. "Then why should I call you that?" "Why not? Everyone else does," Magruder informed him. Thagobar consulted further with Zandoplith and finally said: "We will come back to that point later.> -'The Best Policy' by Randall Garrett (in 'Earthmen & Strangers') ;) Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: Randall Garrett, eh? I'm not familiar with that one. I was going to guess Robert Sheckley. Paradoxes, silly alien names, 1950s America spread across the galaxy ... and yet weirdly brilliant. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Neither am I - this is the only Randall Garrett story I ever found. It's hilarious, though. You'll like it. :) Definitely a Campbell era piece - Campbell liked his aliens inferior, and the writers he published had to play by his rules - but even that obvious bias couldn't ruin this little gem. Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: <Annie> -- < the way the book is related to that SF subgenre where the whole story is really leading up to a final pun? I forget the term for those.> Hmm. I meant to comment on this earlier. Is it an SF subgenre? Sounds to me like what is known in the trade as a <shaggy dog story>. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Wow, incredible coincidence there - I was just on my way back here from the http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com (which I've just discovered online now - I have a print copy from about 10 years ago...) to report that I found the term - <Feghoots>. Closely related to the shaggy dog stories, yeah. Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: <A> Coincidence? Nah, just <Synchronicity City> ... Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Sorry, of course. ;) Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: <'Just call me Edna'> Oops. Took me a while to remember that Oedipa Maas was also Edna Mosh ... despite the fact that I once wrote something called 'The Edna Mosh Experiment' ... maybe I'm getting senile... Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Take a number and get in line. Checking back, what she actually said was 'Oh, call me Edna'. ;s Jun-14-14    Annie K.: My copy has just left the building (on loan to my mother), so I hadda find it online, didn'I? Here - a bunch of pages seem to be missing, at least for me, but still Mucho left... :) http://wenku.baidu.com/view/d97bff7... Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: Oy, you neglected to say "you're not senile yet". Maybe I am.... Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: Mucho 'Wendell' Maas turns up again in one of Pynchon's later novels ... 'Vineland', I think, set in the 1980s. We don't find out what became of Oedipa, though we learn that Wendell/Mucho changed career after the divorce. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: That's because I'm senile. You're not, however. ;) Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: Ackshly, neither of us is. Though I'm closer. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: Heh. It's a race... :) Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: <Feghoots> Fascinating. I'd never heard of Benedict Breadfruit, though I'm familiar with Flann O'Brien's 'Keats and Chapman' pieces (as, incidentally, is Jessica, of this parish). I used to write for a magazine which published Keats & Chapman hommages under a similar name. One of my own such stories told of Keats and Chapman operating a ladies' underwear factory in the southwest of Ireland, near the village of Leap (pronounced 'Lepp'). When the conservative local peasants discovered what was being made there, they torched the factory. Keats and Chapman managed to flee the scene in a truck loaded with produce ... but on arriving at the airport in Cork they found that the truck hadn't been properly closed, and their underwear was spread across fifty miles of road. "Corse it!" said Keats. "There's many a slip twixt Cork and Leap" replied Chapman ruefully. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: <I'm familiar with Flann O'Brien's 'Keats and Chapman' pieces (as, incidentally, is Jessica, of this parish)> So, naturally, I am not. :s I've read some Asimov feghoots, and maybe a couple of others. Heh. I may be half senile and half asleep (overlap percentage uncertain), but I still remember that anecdote - Domdaniel chessforum. ;) Jun-14-14    Domdaniel: Oops. I wrote it better the first time. Jun-14-14    Annie K.: But you didn't mention it was a published story. :) Jun-15-14    Domdaniel: DJ Morgan played Alekhine in a blindfold simul, shortly after WW1. Meeting Alekhine afterwards, he asked about the game ... <I happen to ask where I went wrong. “Ah. Board 8, you played 21 B-B4. No! No!! Kt-Kt5 eh?” I had no idea; from memory!> Impressive. I like this story (courtesy of Winter). There's a term in psychology (which, ironically, I can't recall just now) for the well-attested phenomenon whereby we tend to remember details from our teens and twenties, when our memories were sharpest. Most people have favourite films, books etc from this age. I can recall chess games from 30 years ago clearly, better than games from last week. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 900 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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