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by zbik 9y ago
My favorite theme was Japanese terms from the game Go (wei-qi). Joseki, fuseki, sente. It was educational as well as distinctive. The spellings are also easier than my other theme of Polish delicacies.
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Caruana likely to advance to World Chess Champion title match(en.chessbase.com)
3 points by zbik 9y ago|0 comments
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Unboxing Our New Desktop Pick and Place Machine(sparkfun.com)
262 points by zbik 9y ago|78 comments
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Baseball Hack Day(baseballhackday.com)
3 points by zbik 10y ago|0 comments
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by zbik 10y ago
Thanks for the heads up - I contacted Avast and asked to be removed from their blacklist. I'm not a customer of Avast, but it may help if you submit a false positive report to them (based on what I read in some forum posts): https:&#x
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by zbik 10y ago
Thank you! I was inspired by something I read about the early history of chess: "In order to save time, and to prevent useless exchanges, it was agreed that the first player should make his (let us say) fifteen moves all at once, witho
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by zbik 10y ago
I whipped up a little demo illustrating Carlsen's decisive rapid game 3. It transposes the move sequence to show white's 13-move opening (Karjakin) followed by Carlsen's 13-move response as black, and so on through the game -
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U.S. judge rejects World Chess bid to block websites from airing moves(reuters.com)
194 points by zbik 10y ago|124 comments
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by zbik 10y ago
Fixed link: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist I like the no-frills approach and the embrace of functional reactive.
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by zbik 10y ago
tl;dr Individual Computers launches a new plastic case to house either an original C64 mainboard, or the "C64 Reloaded" board released by hardware designer Jens Schönfeld last year. http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/C
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by zbik 10y ago
If you like the idea of working on this kind of research project, you might check out a local Baseball Hack Day (held annually at the beginning of the season in March or April). http://www.baseballhackday.com/ I keep thinki