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by V-2 3y ago
It would need 8 arms, not 4. (A well-placed Knight meaningfully controlling all of its 8 target squares is actually referred to as an "octopus Knight" sometimes). It is also opinionated, in the sense that the vectors for Knight mo
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by V-2 3y ago
No-castling variant is a thing. It generally makes taking the King to safety more difficult, encouraging a more aggressive style (in the spirit of "I'll get to yours before you get to mine"). Kramnik revived the idea during h
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by V-2 3y ago
Knights tend to be overrated at lower levels of playing strength, where their irregular moving pattern is indeed challenging for the players, and as a result, Knight moves often get overlooked. However, once a player becomes more proficient
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by V-2 3y ago
It also enables some powerful, well-known attacking patterns, like a smothered checkmate with Queen sacrifice (or Philidor's mate).
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by V-2 3y ago
> * they can move by 2 squares from their initial file, and only from the initial file Obviously I meant a rank (horizontal), not a file (vertical), sorry. Cannot edit the comment anymore
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by V-2 3y ago
"This is why rooks are worth 5 and bishops are worth 3" Such evaluations are only a rule of thumb intended for beginners. It's all context dependent. There are positions where a Bishop is more powerful than a Rook. Other thin
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by V-2 3y ago
Fun as it may be as a thought/UX experiment, I don't think it's a good design, because half-truth is usually the worst compromise. This design doesn't account for many special qualities and behaviors pieces exhibit. It d
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by V-2 3y ago
But we absolutely do differentiate them in Polish. Accuracy means dokładność whereas precision translates to precyzja.
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by V-2 3y ago
Good idea, apparently this is - or at least was - already being done on lichess, albeit not without some controversies (of the sort that's fairly typical whenever shadow banning enters the picture).
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by V-2 3y ago
Really? Precision translates to (unsurprisingly) "precyzja", and in the specific context of calculations and measurements, the distinction is well established, see eg.: * https://centrumdruku3d.pl/jak-zrozumiec-roz
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by V-2 3y ago
Cheating detection can only be achieved statistically (it's kind of like proving a random number generator isn't random). It makes it easy to achieve great accuracy in the long run, but hard to be accurate in the short run, becaus
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by V-2 3y ago
> So what I really need to study are the famous openings and the responses to various openings. Seems like a memory game. That's a bit like saying that mathematics or physics are "memory games", because if you take them se
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by V-2 3y ago
> 1400 on lichess is more like 1200 on chess.com, but 1900 is probably 1900. Not in my experience. I'm rated 1900+ on lichess and 1600+ on chess.com. That's after playing a significant number of games (nearly 500 on chess.com,
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by V-2 4y ago
What about my biological intelligence? Let's say I'm just training myself (learning) by browsing and reading a lot of open source projects, not even bothering to check what the licenses say. Am I possibly violating any license? An
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by V-2 4y ago
Yeah well, of course it's a bit like the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, because if strong men fail to create easy times, you can always say that apparently they weren't truly strong, and so on, circular logic ;)
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by V-2 4y ago
As I'm not a basketball fan, I can't really comment on how Michael Jordan compares against other greats of the sport in terms of level of dominance, longevity, sportsmanship etc. This being said, I don't think anyone NEGATES
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by V-2 4y ago
You missed a guy named Bobby Fischer, for one - a rather big name in chess history I would say. He was arguably a major driving force in turning chess into a professional discipline outside of the USSR. As for computers, they've certai
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by V-2 4y ago
> We are now entering terrify, with Magnus at least, where the best players don't want to compete in traditional matches [Citation needed] :) Says who? What exactly indicates the best players "don't want to compete in t
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by V-2 4y ago
> Time to change the format The format has been changing way too often, if anything. > 12 matches is long (edit, 14 now), but no one dares to take any risks. Not really: 12 or even 14 games is short, which is exactly why players
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by V-2 4y ago
> I feel like Fide should focus more on rapid, and get more involved in the online scene. Maybe this is the opportunity. This cheapens the tradition and the prestige of the discipline. Chess has attained a revered status over the years.
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by V-2 4y ago
While Karpov's opinion is debatable of course (although the man knows a thing or two about the subject), I frankly can't see how this analogy is applicable here? If anything, Carlsen's WC matches fell definitely on the short
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by V-2 4y ago
12 games - or even 14, since the last WC (games, not "matches", excuse the nitpick) isn't long, it's short. There's never been a shorter format for chess WC. And this is precisely WHY players don't take any ris
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by V-2 4y ago
While he's (this goes without saying) perfectly within his rights to do so. I feel this decision will undermine his status as one of the GOATs of the game in the long run. "However, one cannot say that he has beaten Caruana or Kar
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by V-2 4y ago
If you won, say, 5 wars (which - yes - will put you in a small minority, because some countries had to be losing these wars, and obviously the losers outnumber you), then you can afford losing another 2. But if you only ever lost 1 or 2 w
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by V-2 4y ago
> Warmongering leaders (whether we are discussing economic or open war), especially ones leading currently weak countries, tend to create even worse times for their people. Just look at Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, or, perhaps more
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by V-2 4y ago
Certainly way more people know about the bombing campaigns of 1940-41, whereas at the end of the day, Stalin never dropped bombs on the UK
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by V-2 4y ago
It's a huge oversimplification, and as such it's borderline useless of course; not much more than a meme of sorts. Still, "strong men", the way I read it, means "adamantly striving for the increase of power" (n
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by V-2 4y ago
Sounds somewhat related to the "tough times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men, weak men create tough times" adage. (Men and women, of course!)
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by V-2 4y ago
That's probably true (I doubt the premise to begin with, I'm not sure if Stalin is universally perceived as more repellent than Hitler by the general public in the UK, the poll results notwithstanding - although I'm not a Bri
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by V-2 4y ago
There's a whole website seemingly built around this concept - WikiHow : ) It bursts at seams with brilliant "do not say!" type of tutorials - one my favorites is "How to Survive a Coup". Here's some of the advi

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