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| Mar-13-07 | | Knightlord: <mack: Of the millions upon squillions of games of chess this world has seen, it is Nezhmetdinov vs Ujtelky, 1964 that I'd have most like to have played and won.> Yes, after move 18 all black pawns are on the sixth rank. Strange game by Count Ujtelky. |
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Mar-13-07
 | | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Yes, I'm a big Lem fan -- not just Solaris but the more Borgesian texts like Imaginary Magnitudes. He's also written reviews of imaginary books and other trans-generic things. But I only read recently that (a) Phil K Dick wrote to the FBI about Lem, suggesting 'he' was actually a commie plot and probably a committee rather than one person; and (b) there was serious invective in both directions between Lem and the science fiction writers of America... As Tal said in another context: "The State versus Vodka? I'm with Vodka." So I'm with Lem, basically. Even though he disliked *both* film versions of Solaris. Oddly enough, the novel on which Tarkovsky based Stalker -- for me, his best film, though it's close -- was Roadside Picnic by the Russian Strugatsky brothers. It's closer to mainstream/generic, but it's also very good. And it's fascinating to read a cold war Russian novel set in Canada. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Hmm. I'd probably opt for the relative sanity of Nimzo's immortal Zugzwang game, myself, but the Nezh-Ujtelky affair is indeed strange and wonderful. I'd love to know when it first dawned on White that he might actually lose. That psychological angle is usually missing from the bare score, though I've seen games where both players were utterly convinced they were winning/losing. I'm also surprised, reading some of the kibitzing, by the extent to which some people seem affronted by such openings. <Jess> The Greenaway material is in the *still exists someplace but not readily accessible* category. I put it away about ten years ago, having vaguely discussed with him the possibility of writing a book about his work... and then decided not to, or got interested in something else. I'll dig for you, though. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Connections, connections>: it wouldn't seem right to exclude Montreal's finest, Leonard Cohen: <One of the lizards
was blowing bubbles
as it did pushups on the tree trunk
I did pushups this morning
on the carpet
and I blew bubbles of Bazooka
last night in the car
I believe the mystics are right
when they say we are all One> |
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Mar-13-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Yikes!!
Re: <Leonard Cohen>
<when they say we are all One> Perhaps dangerously close to the Chant that <Charlie Manson> led his followers to sing? They would hold hands in a meadow, forming a circle, and revolve, while <Charlie> led them to sing this litany over and over: (suitably cheery/ominous melody):
<One, and One, is One>. Rather than <Two>, of course. Question: Who would you rather have destroy the perniciousness of <positivism>: <Cohen> or <Manson>? And is there a difference?
I need to know... |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Synchronicity City> Thanks to Jess's Hippo, I found the Ujtelky reference. Thanks to <percy> and then <mack> I discover Ujtelky's games. Thanks to <chessgames> I've just downloaded a pile of them -- where he plays *white*, just to be perverse... And I owes it all to <Frogspawn>. Sign me up for a 529-year subscription, or until Ireland explodes, whichever happens first. |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Please let the <power of the Hippo> be known far and anon... The poor <Elixir> was so confused by the <lumbering perissodactyl> that he surrendered in 14 moves!! ALL HAIL THE <HIPPO> |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <FROGSPAWN- New Feature> <Ask Dr. Dom>
Dear <Dr. Dom>: I'm an extremely hairy 51 year old Portuguese man who owns a Vietnamese Pot Pig. I must hand in a <scholarly paper> on <Canadian Public Policy>, but I'd rather work on a proper critique of <Entropanto>... What should I do?
Mr. A. Crabbe
Hiding under the table |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <And is there a difference?
I need to know...>
Well, um, Cohen's <The Future> had that line about <all the lousy little poets coming round tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson/ And the white man dancin'>.There's a difference. <Vive> it. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | Knightlord: So Ujtelky was a Hippocrite? |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: Dear Mr Crabbe
Petition your democratic gummint to have The Ent Thing adopted as Canadian Public Policy and all your troubles will vanish. If all else fails, say 'funk the gummint' repeatedly until deported to Buffalo. Or Springfield.Crabbe, eh? I spotted you for one of them Toons right away, Buster ... you know what they say: <Forget the lobster, honey, I'm coming home with the crabs...> |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Knightlord> -- <So Ujtelky was a Hippocrite?>
Maybe he was, or maybe he just had a way of making his opponents swear Hippocritic Oaths. Either way, I reckon Hippo-critter-ness or Hippo-criticality is a virtue. What's all this about Ujtelky being a Count? As in Dracula? Or Alberic O'Kelly de Galway? |
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| Mar-13-07 | | mack: <So Ujtelky was a Hippocrite?> Aye, a hippocritic oaf. |
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| Mar-13-07 | | Knightlord: <Dom><What's all this about Ujtelky being a Count? As in Dracula?> Yes, Ujtelka sounds a bit Transylvanian doesn't it? And then this obscure way of playing. I don't know, it gives me the creeps. Sorry count if you read this, I'm just being silly. (btw, where's my flaming garlic?) |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Knightlord> So Uitelky's playing career in the database covers the years 1948-78. If he's working to some sort of 30-years-on, 30-years-off routine, then he should return next year, aged about 93. Good to see, btw, that he got the IM title at the age of 46. There *is* hope, there *is*... |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: they just discovered <dracula's castle> a few years ago. First, it's not really HIS castle- he was imprisoned there for two weeks. Second, nobody in <Transylvania> ever heard about Vampires until <Coppola's> film version came out. source: <BBC World News Service> (special light entertainment division) I saw this story on TV a cupla nites ago.. |
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Mar-13-07
| | Domdaniel: <Second, nobody in <Transylvania> ever heard about Vampires until <Coppola's> film version came out.> Well, they wouldn't have, would they? After all, Bram Stoker was Irish. All that Transylvanian tosh was just a blind to stop the local vampires from getting him... Apotropaic Geography, as it's called in the Trade. |
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Mar-13-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> well, as you well know, I've got AT LEAST as much "right" to post in GMNS's forum as anyone else. So acting on your tip today, I investigated the sainted room for only the second time... And I made a post!! (Mack's anagram was of course brilliant) Wheeeeeee |
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Mar-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess>
GMNS ... ?
Great Minds Never Solidify?
Grab My Nose, Sweety?
German Master Necks Schlecter?
Gosh, My Nerve's Shattered?
... Oh. <That> GMNS. Right ho, then. Post away, just don't let him persuade you to wear one of those hejab or bilbo things... |
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Mar-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Ujtelky> Investigations, contd. Our hero's great hippocratic victory over Nezh was in the tournament's first round. Eleven games later, he repeated the opening against Boris Spassky. Spassky was usually merciless in crushing opening experiments -- cf his famous 1970 game with Larsen -- but here he seemed just as flummoxed as Nezh. Ujtelky was doing fine until he blundered a rook on move 25. Ironically, if he'd played 25...Qg8 instead, offering a deliberate exchange sac a la the Nezh game, he'd have got massive counterplay. Moral: hippos are tough, but try to avoid blunders. |
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| Mar-14-07 | | hitman84: <mack: <So Ujtelky was a Hippocrite?>
Aye, a hippocritic oaf.>
A hippocryptic word. |
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Mar-14-07
| | Domdaniel: Frogspawn <Dawn of the Undead> Day -- the vamp grows damp... Photos just in to the Frogspawn picture desk:
(1) Dracula's Castle
click for larger view(2) The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game (1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Qh5 Nd6 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. Nb5 g6 7. Qf3 f5 8. Qd5 Qe7 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 
click for larger viewBelieved to be dynamically equal, but it looks to me like Black is well into the middlegame while White is still fumbling with the opening. |
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Mar-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Dear <Dr. Dom>: (copyright FROGSPAWN) If my opponent says he needs to check to see if he requires a <prophylactic> before <checkmating> me, do I ask for his phone number? Margaret Thatcher (retired)
Dracula's Castle
In the Basement. |
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Mar-14-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Frank Drac Variation> Is that really what it's called?
I'd take Black in that diagram too I think...
(great shot of Drac's castle there...FROGSPAWN is clearly superior to CHESSBASE). Plus it doesn't Shill for 8000 products they want you to buy. Incidentally, Have you tried the new FROGSPAWN breakfast cereal? It's great, but I can't quite bring myself to read the side of the box to see the <ingredients>... |
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Mar-14-07
| | Domdaniel: <Margaret> -- <do I ask for his phone number?>
I should say NOT. Fax by appointment only.
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