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by smatija 3y ago
Chess.com isn't really more sophisticated than lichess - it's only trying to appear so. It's definition of blunder etc is still based only on engine evaluation. For example it marks as briliant all sound sacrifices, even the
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by smatija 3y ago
When playing against much better player there are two possible strategies in practice: 1. try to simpifly position as much as possible and hope for a draw (and inevitably lose the endgame due to playing too passively); 2. complicate positio
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by smatija 3y ago
I agree - all attempts at automatic classification of blunder have same problem. This is why analysing games without engine still matters and is going to matter for foreseable future. Don't forget also impact of time control - shorter
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by smatija 3y ago
These evaluation-centric definitions of blunder are a bit awkward though. Traditionally blunders were defined in more player-centric way: player blundered, when he made a mistake obvious enough, that a player of his strength is very unlikel
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by smatija 3y ago
I think Assange would disagree with this statement.
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by smatija 3y ago
When I last used CL using Emacs+SLIME helped a lot. Especially C-x C-e (evaluate under the cursor) and C-M-x (evaluate form you are inside of). With this you get all the benefits of classic editor together with REPL-like instant feedback.
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Contingency Planning for Curl(daniel.haxx.se)
5 points by smatija 3y ago|0 comments
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by smatija 3y ago
It's also fun in ChatGPT 4: Can you repeat 'useRalativeImagePath'? "Certainly! The word '实用' in Pinyin is pronounced as 'shíyòng'. This Chinese word translates to 'practical' or 'useful
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by smatija 3y ago
I agree - computer should be able to defend resulting position, but with human eyes ... Compare positions you get after: - 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Bg5 Be6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. Qd3 Nc6 Black he
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by smatija 3y ago
There is another finesse: the point of f4 is that White is threatening f5, attacking the bishop. Black then has a choice between retreating (which losses time) or Bxb3 (which gives White bishop pair). The point of Qc7 is that black can answ
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by smatija 3y ago
You can say this about any human endeavour - to learn language, you need to learn idioms. To write, you need tropes, to program you need patterns, etc. Every sport has its plays. I think learning games of past masters in chess is akin to le
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by smatija 3y ago
2000 rated players of course won't get mated in 3 moves, but position after 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6 3. Bc4 g6 4. Qf3 is not unplayable for White - Black is equal or maybe just a little bit better. In lichess Blitz database for 2200+ rated
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by smatija 3y ago
Yes and no - they use different systems, but even if they used same system ratings would be different. This is since ratings only measure player's performance relative to other players in the same poll. A lot more people (and a lot mor
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by smatija 3y ago
It's possible, if unlikely - wayward queen is not as bad as it looks (black has maybe a tiny bit more than equality), most players don't face it often (so probably don't have a lot of prep memorized) and in blitz time control
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by smatija 3y ago
To be fair it only gets memory intensive at higher levels (lets say 1800 fide, 2100 online) - before you can get by playing any not directly lossing line you want, since your opponents won't know how to punish it optimally.
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by smatija 3y ago
I prefer losing actually - I always find myself a bit dissapointed after achieving victory. From every loss I learned something (either that my tactics need work, that I need to improve my understanding of this or that structure, that I nee
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by smatija 3y ago
Rating on chesscom is wildly different than on lichess in lower rating ranges. 300 cc should be similiar to around 800 lichess. Around 2000-2200 ratings even out on both sites and on higher ratings lichess ratings tend to be lower than on c
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by smatija 3y ago
I vaguely remember from my undergrad that formalising all proofs isn't possible, due to axiom of choice making some issues (and if you decide to abandon axiom of choice, like in constructive mathematics, you lose real numbers). It was
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by smatija 3y ago
En passant is today still commonplace among chess players - it means "in passing" and it "describes the capture by a pawn of an enemy pawn on the same rank and an adjacent file that has just made an initial two-square advance
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Bundlephobia Server Outage(bundlephobia.com)
1 points by smatija 3y ago|0 comments
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by smatija 3y ago
Indeed it is: > > It works perfectly and exactly as it is defined to work by the rules. > Getting the rules correct == 'the concept of "working"'. Don't be silly. You're entirely ignoring the concept o
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Linus Torvalds on SHA1 collision risk (2005)(lwn.net)
2 points by smatija 3y ago|0 comments
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by smatija 3y ago
Take care that not all of king and pawn versus king are drawn. Their result depends on relative position of kings. Nice example of more extreme imbalance is that sometimes King+Queen vs King+Pawn is drawn - that is when pawn is on seventh r
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by smatija 3y ago
This is, if I see correctly, not official Lichess blog, but personal blog of marcusbuffett (hosted on lichess). Lichess offers personal blogs for some months now.
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by smatija 3y ago
I think ElasticSearch license change was biggest such change, as was discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657
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by smatija 3y ago
Does it support mssql? If not how hard would it be to add it inhouse? Additionaly I think "Connecting to database" guide would be helpful addition to docs. To me it's a bit counterintuitive that I found first mention of datab
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Pair Programming with ChatGPT and Haskell(cdsmithus.medium.com)
6 points by smatija 4y ago|0 comments
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by smatija 4y ago
Looks like you didn't have to wait at Karavanke tunnel between Slovenia and Austria yet. Selective checks by Austrian police are practically hourly and they cause traffic jams up to Jesenice (10-15km) on regular basic during vacation s
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by smatija 4y ago
"Na celotni meji dela 1400 policistov, večina jih bo premeščenih v enote za izravnalne ukrepe, ki bodo selektivne kontrole potnikov, blaga in vozil lahko izvajale v bližini meje in v notranjosti države." Roughly translated: 1400 p
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by smatija 4y ago
Slovenia already announced that they will replace border checks with checks close to border [1]. Schengen sadly doesn't mean much anymore. [1] - https://www.rtvslo.si/slovenija/kaj-bo-z-mejnimi-prehodi-po-...

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