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There are so many stories to tell about the FIDE and corruption. If you are interested google for Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.. the president of the FIDE. He does not need to hide behind Blatter..

It's just soccer is covered by television and chess is not. That's why you don't hear about it usually.

The article says his password was 30 characters long. But maybe it still wasn't a strong password. Weak ones can be brute-forced pretty easily.

Perfect questions.. and also Europe consists of many countries.. Are the immigrants evenly distributed between them? I doubt it.

Although calling 1.e4 aggressive is kind of inaccurate there is some truth behind it. You could at least consider it to be active or ambitious :)

1.e4 introduces a quick development of the white kingside and also the center usually is opened very early in the game.

Still the article proves to be somehow unqualified in terms of chess with the following sentence: 'It’s an aggressive tactic, putting the bishop and queen into play.. '.

Usually it is not a good idea to develop the queen early on and certainly not the idea behind 1.e4.

Thanks! I considered accounts in the beginning but didn't go through with it because most users don't want to create yet another account.

Also the favorites should persist via cookies at least for some time.

About 9 months ago i created https://namesmith.io , a business and domain name generator. I practically did nothing to boost the search engine ranking but the volume of visitors is growing (very slowly).

So far the site can barely cover my vserver cost but that's ok since I can use the server for more than just namesmith. Most of the time some few dollar amounts tickle in but I had some sales of premium domains which gave > 50$ each.

I still plan to add some more features, such as URL shortening, but at the time it is not worth it.

Every change that stops people from reading this awful newspaper should be welcomed..

though I somehow have the feeling that few of the people using AdBlock actually read Bild..

Yea it can spit out hilarious stuff..

Just to update you. Some affiliate links (e.g. namecheap) now redirect directly to the corresponding domain.

I've also changed the domain availability check from the api I used before to a homegrown dns ns lookup. This is not 100% accurate too but seems to be better and a lot faster until now!

Hehe thanks! Glad you like it. It's really really good to hear positive feedback after all that time tinkering with it :)

Thanks for your feedback.

I'm not sure yet what is causing the problem. It could be that someone just registered the domain because i cache the results for a few minutes.. or the api I use produces too many bad results.. I will hopefully figure it out.

Your other point is already on my todo list and will be implemented soon. I'm still in the process of unifying different affiliate merchants.. using some of them directly, some via CJ makes things ugly (code wise).

Thanks!

I used UIkit (http://getuikit.com/) as frontend framework. After having used boostrap and others, I really like it most.

Other than that I did everything myself.. layout, colors etc. with one exception: I didn't create the icons on the landing page myself but the attribution is mentioned on the about page.

Hey thanks! It's nice to get some positive feedback on a project :)

I use an api from a domain registrar to check domain availability at the moment. I will investigate this.. should not be happening.

The automatic checking is a bit of a problem with the current design. It would be very many domains to check at once even if most are not inspected by the user.. I'm still thinking about a better system here.

Author here. I worked on that project part time for the last months. The backend is completely written in Go (Revel framework). There are a lot of features on my todo list but I thought it would be a good time for release.

If you have any insights or questions I'm happy to answer!

Out of curiosity I have to ask another question..

When you started the project did you consider using libtcod ( https://bitbucket.org/libtcod/libtcod , http://roguecentral.org/doryen/libtcod/ ) ?

Did you even know it at the time and if so why did you decide not to use it? I always thought libtcod was THE way to go for fancy ascii games. I would be very interested in your opinion on this.

That game looks really great. I've played so many roguelikes and was instantly interested. Reading a good post mortem was another plus to check it out.

Then I remembered the general problem with commercial games.. went straight to the FAQ and searched for "linux".. bummer.. I guess somehow I expected a roguelike to work on Linux :)

I will observe the game and hopefully someday a Linux version will emerge. Good luck to your quest as indie dev!

Wow thanks for sharing.. this is really is beautiful!

While it is true that Morphy's games were beautiful, one should note that his opponents usually were significantly weaker players than him. You could also read this as: Morphy was levels ahead of the other players at the time. He could get away with 'risky' plays.