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Have to include ChessNetwork
https://www.youtube.com/ChessNetworkTV/videosIf people like Gotham/Nakamura/ChessBrahs aren't your style, ChessNetwork is calm and straight forward without all of the youtube/twitch "entertainer" personality I find grating.
Very nice! Have to point out the spelling error, losing* not loosing.
I have the exact same problem. When I know what needs to get done, even if it's tedious, it's not so bad to put my nose to the grindstone and work through it. But when I'm not sure how to approach a task, suddenly every distraction in the world is more appealing.
You often see the suggestion to break up big tasks into smaller, baby step chunks to avoid this analysis paralysis. Doesn't help when I'm not even sure what to do yet.
Same with "a napron" -> "an apron"
Weird UI effect (I'm using Chrome 59): When the blue loading bar at the top of the page completes, I get popped back to the top of the page, regardless of where I've scrolled to. Bar finishes loading after ~3-5 seconds.
The study was done with rapid games, against computers, where they discarded human losses on time. Not very confident in those results. But hopefully the researcher gets the chance to try and reproduce and use classical time controls, and human vs. human opponents.
Slightly off topic, but the beauty of Switzerland was such a stark contrast to where I grew up in New Jersey that it almost made me angry. All these people, going about their daily lives in Switzerland seemingly oblivious to the fairy-tale landscape around them!
Pretty cool! Some unexpected results, or at least not what I guessed. "summary" as the top for C#, "SELECT" all the way down at #43 for SQL, "err" as the top for Go (I'm sure that will spawn some pleasant discussion).
How has that worked out for you? I hadn't considered profitable side-project from the buyers side until right now, curious to hear your experience.
HTC Vive owner. Mine is mostly on the shelf. I bring it out when new people visit and want to give it a try, but I haven't played otherwise.
It's still a good time and the novelty isn't completely worn off...games like Chamber 19 (Xortex from The Lab) or Fantastic Contraption are a lot fun once I get myself to turn it on. But I haven't played a really compelling game--I'm hoping Budget Cuts is as good as it looks.
The wow factor is huge the first few times. The VR immersion really works. I just haven't found a game yet that combines that Wow with game mechanics I want to keep playing for more than the novelty of it.
I discovered a few years back that chess instructional videos knock me out immediately. I used to play competitively and am genuinely interested, but have never, not even once, survived an entire 20-30min video--usually Alex Yermolinsky and his fantastic accent in the "Every Russian Schoolboy Knows" series on the internet chess club.
Interested in how this differs from kdb+, I see it isn't part of the performance comparison chart but seems to have some feature overlap.
Likely it was one of the racks used by AlphaGo
It's more likely than you think.
Very interesting! It played very natural, "human" positional moves and defended against most obvious threats. There was one exception, where it played a move that looked normal for the position--developing a piece in the opening--but it also hung the piece. That was the only serious blunder, every other mistake was in tactical lines more than one or two moves deep.
That seems to make sense for being trained by a NN, still impressive how well it was able to spot concrete threats! Thank you for sharing.
(My elo is 2150ish)
Stuck in the mid 2100s. The main difference I see when I play 1800s, and most levels beneath that, is still tactics. A 1200 lets you fork their king and queen. An 1800 goes into a variation that lets you fork their king and queen 3 moves in.
I make the same kinds of mistakes, allow positional concessions or just straight-up blunder because I overlook tricks in the lines I thought were safe.
Building up that mental repertoire of tactical and positional patterns by solving puzzles and reviewing well played games is essential, no matter what level. It's like building a huge in-memory cache of correct answers so you quickly solve problems at the board.
Thats interesting, there's been many times I've stumbled on a page "organically" and wished there were reddit or HN comments I could read about it. I would use an extension that found them for me.
Will this affect those of us who already have it installed?
Misunderstood the rules initially...at first I thought you lost if you ran out of pieces on your half, but that just ends the game. The value of the pieces you capture is all that matters.
Sat there for a while trying to figure out how you could force one side to remove their final piece.
He got it from George Carlin.
Similar quote always stuck with me: "You judge others by their actions and yourself by your intentions"