2+ hour, 45+ min ago  (173+ words) As an adult-improver chess player, one of the tools I have found useful is playing the Maia bots on Lichess (link), after learning about the project from Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess and Perpetual Chess Improvement. With this stack, you can…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (650+ words) Daemon and Bitcoin go way back. In a response to Satoshi's release of the original Bitcoin software on the Cryptography Mailing List, Dan Geer said: Incidentally, I highly recommend Daniel Suarez's Daemon; trust me as to its relevance. Daemon was…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (309+ words) Now, how do chess players keep their value in this world of infinite strength and infinitely stronger chess players? BY RELEGATING THE MACHINES. You can practice with machines, analyze games after (or for us audience, during) the games, but the…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago  (175+ words) I confess, this was a ridiculous improvement. .. All of four rating points. But it's been forever since I was up here, with two or three deep drops, worst losing to 1300s at some point. I was going to credit my better…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (60+ words) I have already zapped the winners. Here they are: Congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who posted in the territory this week. The regular weekly will return next week. I have already zapped the winners. Here they are: Congratulations…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (58+ words) I just zapped the top five posts of the week. Here they are: Congratulations to the winners. We will be back with a regular newsletter next week. pull down to refresh I just zapped the top five posts of the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (66+ words) I just zapped the top posts of the week. Congratulations to all the winners. The Weeklies will be back by the end of the month. Thanks to everyone who posted in the territory. I just zapped the top posts of…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (69+ words) I love games that are combination of two vastly different disciplines. Haha this is weird and amazing. How I learned about the existence of chess boxing One of my favorite songs ever. Masta Killas part in this song is so…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (72+ words) Only a couple moves and we get this huge cloud of possible variants. Math says: there's 10120 possible games. And as science sats: it's more than atoms in visible universe. p. s. math behind total amount of chess moves Can we restore a…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (213+ words) Comments pull down to refresh Since my livelihood involves teaching English, I feel gravitated to record how Pakistan's youngsters are passionate about playing Scrabble. Apparently, in Pakistan, Scrabble is a tool for aspirational socio-mobility. A professional Scrabble coach featured in…...