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 902 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-24-14    technical draw: <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.> There's something strange about those statistics. Does your rating identify you as a beginner? If your rating is 800 and you have played 1,000 games are you still a beginner? I think a change from "beginner" to "bad player" is in order. Jun-24-14    Domdaniel: <tech> Well, yes. I was reluctant to use the word 'patzer' - I don't much like it, and anyhow it's relative. But 'bad player' makes sense. I still have trouble accepting a median of 657. My first rating was 1000 points higher. It amuses me, though, that a nominal 'beginner' (rating 800, according to Wikipedia) should be significantly stronger than a typical USCF player. Jun-24-14    Domdaniel: <Garech> I've played Alex Lopez four or five times - he won them all, though I had chances on a couple of occasions, and came very close once. I've also managed to lose tournament games to Baburin, Mark Orr and Gavin Wall... these masters are tough. Jun-24-14    Annie K.: Hon, are you sure that wasn't supposed to be 1657? :) Jun-25-14    Domdaniel: <Annie> Wot, you mean there's an *error* in Wikipedia? Heaven forfend. Jun-27-14    Shams: This week I re-watched, for the first time in decades, the cult classic Repo Man (1984). Written and directed by British guy Alex Cox and based, one assumes very loosely, upon his own experiences as a repossession artist. I really enjoyed it. Great performances and a fantastic soundtrack. Are you a fan? Jun-28-14    Annie K.: <Dom> what, you haven't signed up for the World vs Naiditsch game? :) Jun-28-14    Domdaniel: <Annie> Nope, and I have no plans to do so... Colombia 1-0, if you're innarested... Jun-28-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> Very much so. I conducted a very strange interview with Alex Cox in the late 80s. He was in a café with a friend whom he introduced as 'Joe', and whom I realized was Joe Strummer of the Clash. Alex had just made the spoof spaghetti western 'Straight to Hell', with Strummer, Elvis Costello, and others. I remember him telling me to 'leave my brain at home' when I watched it ... but I didn't, and it squirmed with embarrassment on the seat beside me. He also told me about an amazing 17-year-old named Courtney Love ... I wonder what became of her ...? Jun-28-14    Annie K.: <Colombia 1-0, if you're innarested...> Only if you can provide the movelist in algebraic notation. ;p Jun-28-14    Domdaniel: <Algebraic>? I can do algebra ... it means bone-setting, doesn't it? Oh, right, you mean the *other* beautiful game... Well, it's now 2-0 to Colombia: c2-c4 is an English opening, obviously, and 1.c2-c3 is a Saragossa ... but nobody wants to be reminded of Spain or England just now, for calcio-related reasons. Calcio, not calico. Jun-28-14    Domdaniel: There's a traditional Irish song (in Gaelic) called "Oro, se do bheatha abhaile", which means "Oro, this is your way home" ... and every time I see "URU" -- the abbreviation of Uruguay, but with much the same pronunciation as 'Oro' -- I think it means <Uruguay, you're going home...> Jun-28-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> Actually, I got my first job as a film critic by saying that I followed the code of the Repo Men ... I reckon the magazine editor who hired me was also a fan. Jun-29-14    Shams: <Domdaniel> I should have guessed you'd met Alex Cox. You've met everyone it seems. No chance you ever met/played chess with Kubrick? Jun-29-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> I'd have very much liked to have met Kubrick - I was a big fan of his work. But no, sadly. I did meet Donald Woods, the South African newspaper editor who was played by Kevin Kline in the film Cry Freedom. Woods was a good chess player, apparently -- but I didn't know that when I interviewed him, so the subject never came up. The only time, as far as I remember, that chess featured in an interview was when I met the French actor Christopher Lambert, who played a GM in a very silly movie about murder and chess masters. He went out of his way to tell me he had no interest in chess. I wasn't impressed. Jun-29-14    Shams: Per an anecdote in Chess Life twenty years ago, Humphrey Bogart once insisted on a game of chess as a condition to granting an interview. The journalist reluctantly agreed, then proceeded to wipe the board with Bogart, who later said it was the worst interview he'd ever given. I suppose the moral of the story is this: if you're in that situation, let the movie star win and you'll get better copy. Jun-29-14    Domdaniel: <Shams> I'd like to have met Bogart, too ... the only problem being that he died before I was born, never mind before I interviewed anyone. Bogart and Kubrick aside, I don't think many filmmakers or actors were keen on chess. Jun-29-14    Shams: Keanu Reeves technically qualifies. He was on his high school chess team. "Sir, I take the skin off chicken." -- Johnny Utah Jun-29-14    Domdaniel: Keanu? As in Johnny What's-my-Mnemonic? Wonders will never cease ... I thought he was just a dumb cyber-surfer dude... Fox and James, in 'The Complete Chess Addict' (?) list chess players in various categories ... politics, sports, acting, literature, etc. But I don't have a copy to hand. Jun-29-14    Shams: <Dom> I think it's just that Keanu is a bad actor, so people think he's dumb. By the same token there are likely some dumb bunnies who are really talented actors, so people think they're smart. Perhaps Gary Oldman qualifies, though maybe I'm holding his bad week against him unfairly. Jun-30-14    MarkFinan: Just thought of you when playing this and as I'm about to switch off before I draw the game (I won't lose it & I'm also tired) I wondered if you'd play b4 here? WTP. If I start the analysing now at this move then I won't get as much enjoyment if I win, so I've no idea what the engine is currently saying but I think b4 looks drawish. Blacks bishop isn't going anywhere or doing anything and moving the b pawn would result in it being lost for black. I'm just wanting to get that Knight over to the e3 square to aid in the f5 "onslaught!" lol. If you do ever go through this game I think I've played a really smart move by "saccing" the doubled up b pawn early on, swapping the major pieces off, and into the endgame with a shout of a victory. Btw I thought of you because it's a FD, I don't usually have ran-dom thoughts, lol. [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.06.30"] [Round "?"] [White "Player AM "] [Black "Stockfish 5 (70.2%)"] [Result "*"] [TimeControl "40/600+5"] 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 Nge7 8. Nc3 Nf5 9. Na4 Qa5+ 10. Bd2 Bb4 11. Bc3 b5 12. a3 Bxc3+ 13. Nxc3 b4 14. axb4 Qb6 15. Bb5 O-O 16. Bxc6 Qxc6 17. b5 Qb6 18. O-O a6 19. Qd3 Bb7 20. Na4 Qxb5 21. Qxb5 axb5 22. Nc5 Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Ra8 24. Rxa8+ Bxa8 25. g4 Nh6 26. h3 Bc6 27. Nh4 g6 28. f4 Kf8 29. Kf2 Be8 30. Kg3 Bc6 31. b4 Be8 * click for larger view Jul-01-14    Domdaniel: <Mark> Yeah, b4 seems to lock everything down and leave white with a clear advantage. My only doubt about playing it is that the b4 square might be a useful place to put a knight ... in which case the pawn should hold back. I once lost a B-v-N ending to a 2300 guy under similar circs. He had a pawn push, d4, that seemed obvious to me -- but he didn't play it, and instead used the d4 square to reroute his knight, eventually winning. I'm not sure if that applies here, but the bishop is definitely bad, and DOMinated by knights. Jul-09-14    jessicafischerqueen: Howay <Dom> I was reminded of you whilst posting this bit of feyness over at my two up, three down bungalow in Swansea. I believe it remains the only Prog Rock track that counsels us not to use the <Ignore Function>: "There's no one... to avoid..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUN... Jul-12-14    Shams: Hi <Dom>, I'm curious how you handle KIA vs French. I wasn't liking the positions I was getting with ...g6/Bg7, allowing e4-e5 and playing for queenside expansion so I looked for something else and found a video on the system Black plays here: B Vujic vs Zsuzsa Polgar, 1981 I've only had one chance to play it yet-- just a silly blitz miniature but an illustration of why White shouldn't allow ...a5-a4: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game... Are you familiar with this variation? I've also heard the long castling lines are good for Black. Jul-12-14    Domdaniel: <Jess> Feyness? Feynessence? Why on Earth (or elsewhere) should feyness remind you of me? Are you suggesting, implying, or intimating that I'm not a straight arrow? That, like Larsen, I may be Bent...? OK, that's cool. You're pretty butch yourself, yanno... especially when beating up on chessplayers. Prog roolz, dunnit? Fick as a bleedin' brick... that's moi. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 963) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 902 OF 963 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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