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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 901 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-16-14    Annie K.: Nice. :) I can't remember entire games from any time at all (except for those trappy miniatures such as the Legal's Mate one, of course...), and noting the relevant fact that I did not play chess in my teens and twenties, either - but in general, yeah, earlier memories are sharper. Of course there is probably another factor at work in that, besides memory sharpness per se; we are also still much more impressionable at that age, still in search of role models and examples to shape our own personalities by. Once we have become more our own creatures, perhaps the faculty of memorizing becomes less important. Jun-16-14    Domdaniel: <A> I thought the memory phenom was much as you describe it ... plus the fact that teen experiences are generally sharper and more vivid, and so more likely to leave a memorable impression. But apparently psychologists link it to the sharpness of youthful memory - like the window during which it's much easier to learn a language. Chess, of course, is a language. Jun-16-14    Garech: <Domdaniel> Are you for real, you used to play for Cavan? I play for Cavan now! Sean Galligan is now playing for Longford, I don't know why he switched allegiances. Are you still on the club circuit? Jun-16-14    Annie K.: These factors in the learning/memory/general impressionability continuum are all intertwined, I'd say. <Chess, of course, is a language.> And language is a medium, therefore chess is a medium. True enough. :) Good thing I learned chess when I was 5, even though it was another 30 years until I took it up again. I do think I have an advantage over people who actually learn chess as adults... I don't have to stop and think how the horsie moves, at least. Jun-16-14    Annie K.: ^ <it was another 30 years > Eh, make that 25 - it only *feels like* 30... ;p Jun-16-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> Well, yes. I played exactly one game for Cavan, back in the 1970s. A guy named James Scanlon was playing for them, and was at school with me, and he asked me to fill in for a club game in Dublin. I won. After that I played in a couple of Cavan tournaments. I've played for about six other clubs since then: currently CCYMS in Cork. Jun-16-14    crawfb5: <Dom> The infamous "1860 telephone" game is indeed a telegraph game, one of a two-game match between Boston and New York, 8-16 Mar 1860. Harding's allegedly well-researched correspondence CD had the rosters incorrect as well. Boston: Ware, Richardson, Howard, Stone, and Hammond New York: Lichtenhein, Marache, Perrin, Thompson and Loyd. I submitted a correction slip (to my correction slip). http://www.chessarch.com/excavation... Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <crawf> Thank you for checking that out. I half-suspected that 'Lichtenhein' was a misspelling, but it seems to be correct. "What hath God wrought" -- wasn't that the first telegraph message? A complicated way of saying "1.e4"... Jun-18-14    Garech: <Domdaniel> Ah,very interesting, thanks for the info! Yes I know James Scanlon, he has a jewellery shop in Cavan high street, which he runs with his son. Who are/what is CCYMS in Cork? Do you play in the national leagues? Cavan are currently in the Ennis. Would be great if we had a game some time, we'd have to upload it! -Garech Jun-18-14    Annie K.: <CCYMS> heh - well, you asked for it. ;) Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> Yeah, that's Jim Scanlon. I remember the jewellery shop. We were both at school in Gormanston in the 70s. He was, um, the second-best player in the school, I think... CCYMS is a club. Which doesn't do much, apart from field a team in the Munster League. But it's apparently been doing this since about 1880. http://www.chessleague.net/mcu/inde... Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <Annie> Oh, I/We keep a low profile, and I/we like it that way... Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <A> BTW, as I may have told you, I thought that pretty much my entire chess library was destroyed in the fire in 2012. I had been cataloguing chess stuff - books, zines, scoresheets, etc - right next to the fire's epicentre, where destruction was total. But now, going thru boxes of stuff from storage, I've found a few survivors -- books by Euwe, Emms, Nunn, Barden, a few 1970s BCM zines, a couple of scoresheets ... better than nothing. Jun-18-14    Annie K.: I know, don't worry. :) Oh, that's good news on the survivors! Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> The MCU site doesn't have all of this year's results, but you can find them here: http://ratings.icu.ie/tournaments/446 I'm there, if you know where to look. #14, I think. Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <Annie> Yeah, it's good. Quite a lot of non-chess stuff -- fiction, science, art, science fiction, etc -- has also survived in reasonable condition. I may still have a library when this is sorted out. Jun-18-14    Garech: <Domdaniel> Aha, very nice. I did not realise there was a Munster league! Do you have many Grandmasters? ;0) -Garech Jun-18-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> Ha ha. There are IMs who play from time to time, though I haven't seen any GMs recently. Though Gawain Jones played for Ennis in a match against us a few years ago. In an earlier life, I played Board one for a Rathmines team in the Armstrong cup, though I only scored 1.5/10. Jun-18-14    Garech: Yes, we don't have many in the Leinster League either. Baburin is still knocking around, Kilkenny hires him out as a mercenary from time to time. Sam Collins is doing very well, and Alex Lopez although he was not born and bred in Ireland. David Fitzsimons(FM) is one to watch too, he has serious talent. I guess the fact that drinking is the national pastime does not produce too many sublime chess minds. But we still have our literature! -Garech Jun-19-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> Our literature? Like, uh, Sam Collins on the Advance French? I jest. Actually I've written a lot about Irish literature ... and even contributed to it occasionally, if you count science fiction and other experiments. Jun-19-14    OhioChessFan: For a dissenting view: http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.c... Jun-19-14    Domdaniel: <Ohio> The countable/uncountable distinction chimes with my intuitions, more or less. Though I try not to be too pedantic about such matters ... I just try to go with what sounds right. Jun-20-14    Domdaniel: "Devotees of cult films are like billiard or backgammon fans; they insist that the games are far superior to pool or chess, but they realise that if everyone started playing them, it would ruin everything." -- Joe Queenan. Jun-24-14    Domdaniel: From the Wikipedia article on Elo ratings: <In general, a beginner is around 800, a mid-level player is around 1600, and a professional, around 2400. In 2007, the median rating of all USCF members was 657> Eh? A median rating of 657? As Fischer reputedly said, on hearing that somebody had a rating of 1200, "Do they go that low?" If a typical beginner is about 800, and a typical USCF member is 657, then the beginner should score about 70% in a series of games between the two. Jun-24-14    Domdaniel: When I first saw the name <Hannu Rajaniemi> I thought it sounded Indian (as in 'Hanuman Raj...'). In fact, he is Finnish -- a mathematician and science fiction writer, born in Finland, living in Scotland, writing in English and Finnish. His Jean le Flambert trilogy is superb -- the 3rd book is due this month. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 901 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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