| Mar-29-06 | | Whitehat1963: Wonder if he ever played against Tolstoy. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Jim Bartle: Not sure, but he probably played against a few "Dubliners." |
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Mar-29-06
 | | WannaBe: Oh geeze, I sense a stream of consciousness coming....
Oh, nevermind, the stream just dried up. |
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| Mar-29-06 | | suenteus po 147: James Joyce was brilliant at a lot of things, but nothing I've read about him (and I've read plenty) suggests that he ever played much chess. It's just as well, I suppose, since his writing is much better than any games he could have played :) |
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Mar-29-06
 | | tamar: riverrun, past deschappelles and philidor, down the big muddy to orleans, washing past Breslau, Lodz, Havana,
Brooklyn, bringing us to rest outside a computer factory? |
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| Mar-29-06 | | Jim Bartle: Maybe it's just that stream of consciousness didn't turn out to be a very effective method of calculation in chess. The "Finnegan's Wake" of chess: "Secrets of Chess Training" by Dvoretsky. Can't make heads nor tails of either. |
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| Mar-16-07 | | Whitehat1963: Another Player of the Day candidate. |
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May-18-07
 | | Domdaniel: <stream of consciousness didn't turn out to be a very effective method of calculation in chess>
Maybe not, but it gives the imagination some exercise. You can always calculate afterwards. |
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| May-19-07 | | mack: <stream of consciousness didn't turn out to be a very effective method of calculation in chess> Watch it, you're talking about my favourite pastime there. |
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May-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <m> Of course, of course ... I've just read a story about Timman apparently finding (too late, natch) a forced draw in a dream. I suppose, when one's opponent starts on the rapid eye movements, it's time to resign. The great submerged ocean of unplayed combinations is being accessed, and the unconcho will find a way through... You do seem to have several favorite pastimes, however. Just saying. |
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| May-19-07 | | mack: <You do seem to have several favorite pastimes, however. Just saying.> Watch it. If I *really* tried, I suspect I could somehow claim that all the things I purport to be favourite pastimes could actually be put under the same umbrella - lectual masturbation, or somesuch. |
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| Aug-19-08 | | mack: Blimey, who'd have thought I'd end up back here. Does anybody know anything about old Joycey? I was at a debauched house party in Stoke Newington on Saturday, and before long somebody inevitably pointed me out as 'the chess playing one', just for something to say. A few hours and several things of which I'm not particularly proud later I got speaking to some French bloke. He was only there because one of the other partygoers had spent the day dabbling with LSD and had been getting strangers to take their photos at various stages of the day. I would like to say, a la Viv Stanshall, 'we spoke French fluently', but that would be a lie. My French had become fractured and matey had decided to speak in English, which was even worse than my French. After a long and confusing discussion about Duchamp the artist, we came to Duchamp the chess player. And then, somehow, me the chess player, which I insisted was not a subject worth pursuing. Frenchie didn't think so, though: 'Oh man, I got this friend, Johnny Joyce, he's *crazy*, real crazy, plays chess and @#$% all day, he used to be the second best player in Ireland... really bonkers... I'll give him your number man, he'll take you down, seriously, he's mad...' I fear that by this point that my dear French chum definitely *did* have my number. So any day now I'm terrified of some crazy Irish chess player phoning me up and 'taking me down'. Please, can any of you Irish lads tell me more? 'I say you might be, the second best player in Ireland, the second best, second best...'
(with apologies to Mrs Doyle)
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Mar-31-10
| | Domdaniel: Funny, I completely forgot I'd ever posted here. I beat old Joycey (the chessplaying one) last weekend. In, I think, 24 moves. I suppose I should upload it. |
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Feb-21-12
 | | theagenbiteofinwit: A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. |
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Feb-21-12
| | theagenbiteofinwit: <Al Wizir> was clever enough to know my name. |
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| Jul-17-13 | | MarkThornton: John Joyce is a member of a distinguished cricketing family. He has 5 sibllings (3 brothers and 2 sisters) who have played cricket for Ireland. His most famous brother is Ed Joyce: John gets a mention in the Family section of Ed's Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Joy... |
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Jul-17-13
 | | offramp: Cricket and chess - the Joyces sound like my kind of family. |
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