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Jul-22-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Heh <Drag Racing> requires immense skill and the movie is brilliant. BTW, I am super busy filling out an application form for a job etc. etc. and won't be able to play "Game Two" for a bit, I just sent you a Beemail. Formula One is cool, but nobody can ever pass anyone else unless the leading car catches on fire. |
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| Jul-22-07 | | Eyal: Hey Jess, I got your mail - if you're on line now (20:45 JDT), could you sign in the box for a minute? |
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Jul-22-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hey <Eyal> sure I'm signing in now. |
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| Jul-22-07 | | Ragh: Formula One is very appealing though mostly due to the varied circuit tracks the races are conducted on throughout the world in a season. Of course, lead changes require a lot of effort on the drivers' part. I replied back to your email about the game, no hurry in playing it with work due. |
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Jul-23-07
 | | Domdaniel: Skookum's out? Stands to reason that an imaginary anthropoid with a small population would not be typically heterosexual. Unless you believe the reverends who say that everything in 'nature' is straight. Otherwise, Noah may have accidentally encouraged spider monkey fag-haggery and other abominations. Where does the Snowman fit? Somewhere cold, with chums and carrots, I guess. |
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Jul-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> what are you doing up at <eleventy O' clock in the morning>? |
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Jul-23-07
| | Domdaniel: Don't like sport, don't like cars. So formula one is the pits. Heh. Jem Parley Zotto |
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Jul-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <Drag Racing> Don't the high heels get in the way? |
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Jul-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh I was wondering how long that might take... |
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| Jul-23-07 | | notyetagm: <jessicafischerqueen: ... <Benko> is an endgame expert, and <Kasparov> in particular recommends a study of <Benko's> endgames to improve.> I do not doubt you but when and where did Kasparov say this? |
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Jul-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <: <Dom> what are you doing up at <eleventy O' clock in the morning>?> Going to bed. Right now before more deranged pseudo-witticisms escape the butterfly nets and have to be reeled in manually by the boys and girls in the mixed metaphor office. G'night, ma reine (and Ma Rainey and Beethoven too) |
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Jul-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: He said it to <Fred Waitzkin> in <New York City> in <1990>, during the first part of his match with <Karpov>. The source is <Waitzkin's> very fine book <Mortal Games>. <Benko> had self-published a limited run of endgame studies, and <Waitzkin> had bought one. He presented the copy to <Kasparov> on the night in question, and <Kasparov> quickly became engrossed in it, flipping pages and murmuring repeatedly "this is important.. this is very important." |
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| Jul-23-07 | | notyetagm: <jessicafischerqueen: He said it to <Fred Waitzkin> in <New York City> in <1990>, during the first part of his match with <Karpov>.> Thanks.
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| Jul-23-07 | | achieve: Nothing *is* what it seems to be pretending, anymore. Domistic sophistry might be the "only way out".
(By golly, it workes for me..) |
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Jul-23-07
 | | chancho: <Jess> Maybe you missed this link, courtesy of <acirce> on the Topalov page. http://www.danailov-before-and-afte... |
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Jul-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Thank you, Niels. Really. One 'trivial' little vowel change later, and I'm now 'working' on something called "Domistic Data, Dictionary Dreams". It's about the tortuous 'relationship' between a competitive chess player and a competitive scrabble player. And it's only a bit autobiographical. Some of it is made up. The first word of the title was originally 'Domestic', but I like 'Domistic' better. I very much doubt whether agents and publishers will agree, however, so I may have to put my foot down. I'll tell them I suffer from Irritable Vowel Syndrome and they're discriminating against me. Bloody vowelists. |
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| Jul-23-07 | | achieve: <Dom> Give 'em hell! You know what you're aiming for.. I was just reacting to what I read.. I hope (and demand) that you'll put your foot down, if needed.. In all honesty, if you can get it published it is of course a matter of priorities.. I am on your side.. I am a FAN. Not a so called "expert". |
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Jul-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> Ta. I have to write the dam' thing first, of course. Not an area where my past form is particularly promising. Oh, I can write, no question. I even have ideas sometimes. And little pieces of stuff are often published. But when it comes to the time, dedication, application and work-rate required to actually produce a whole book, I'm far too lazy. Or too easily distracted, or something. But I ain't complaining. I like it this way, and there are maybe too many books in the world already. |
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| Jul-23-07 | | mack: <Thank you, Niels. Really. One 'trivial' little vowel change later, and I'm now 'working' on something called "Domistic Data, Dictionary Dreams".> I'll take two of those! |
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| Jul-23-07 | | BishopofBlunder: <Domdaniel:
I'll tell them I suffer from Irritable Vowel Syndrome...>Just be sure to avoid one 'trivial' little consonant change when telling them about your "syndrome". Else, they could get the wrong idea completely. |
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Jul-23-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hi <Bishop>!
How the hell are you? |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <BishopofPlunder> & <gack>. Yes, exactly so. |
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| Jul-24-07 | | JoeWms: Jess, yesterday at Dom's place you posted a message that had a string of maybe two hundred zeros. A string, of course, has no spaces and is read as one word. Consequently, the reader who uses a text size greater than Smallest has to scroll horizontally back and forth on <every> line of the displayed text. (I use Larger text size, three sizes up from your Smallest.) So if you don't need a typological gimmick to get your message across ... A programmer could set this out in technical terms a lot clearer than my post has done. Joe |
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| Jul-24-07 | | JoeWms: Every line of the displayed page of text, no matter who the author. |
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Jul-24-07
| | Domdaniel: Hi, Joe. Glad to know you're still overseeing our little games. Believe it or not, the moment I saw the post in question I thought "Oh dear, a Joe-unfriendly format, we can't have that..." -- but I didn't get around to actually saying so. And now you've relieved me and my conscience -- a timid yet depraved beast -- of that burden. For which I thank you. I must drop by soon. I'm being more sporadic now that it's obvious I have no chance at all against the young folk in the Great Posting Race. And I'm glad you dropped by, even if it was here rather than there. Something wrong with my place? |
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