Automated Archives for December, 20th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-4
Net Elo Change: -17
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 20, 2023 (8 posts)
- December 20, 2022 (8 posts)
December 19th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 19th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-2
Net Elo Change: +6
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 19, 2023 (1 post)
- December 19, 2022 (3 posts)
December 18th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 18th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-1
Net Elo Change: -1
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 18, 2023 (1 post)
- December 18, 2022 (4 posts)
December 17th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 17th 2024
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 8-0-4
Net Elo Change: +21
Games Played
- Woofyyyy - WIN
- molivares2 - WIN
- marcure - WIN
- Guendu - LOSS
- Dr1234 - LOSS
- DVStranger - WIN
- LOLEmpoLOL - WIN
- sahulescu - LOSS
- Hpg84 - WIN
- Praneet442 - WIN
- bryangsc - WIN
- BobbyTupperbum - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 17, 2023 (1 post)
- December 17, 2022 (4 posts)
December 16th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 16th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-3
Net Elo Change: -1
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 16, 2023 (2 posts)
- December 16, 2022 (4 posts)
December 15th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 15th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-4
Net Elo Change: -17
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 15, 2023 (8 posts)
- December 15, 2022 (4 posts)
December 14th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 14th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-2
Net Elo Change: -5
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 14, 2023 (4 posts)
- December 14, 2022 (5 posts)
December 13th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 13th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 5-0-4
Net Elo Change: +8
Games Played
- parachords - WIN
- celoat - LOSS
- Japoda - LOSS
- Edmond333 - WIN
- talo135 - WIN
- mk35 - LOSS
- tekac - WIN
- Rudolf_Pfuelb - LOSS
- Sachinmewarguru - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 13, 2023 (4 posts)
- December 13, 2022 (3 posts)
December 12th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 12th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 0-1-1
Net Elo Change: -5
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 12, 2023 (3 posts)
- December 12, 2022 (7 posts)
December 11th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 11th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 8-0-3
Net Elo Change: +28
Games Played
- benghis - WIN
- rasturicic - WIN
- ALexanderxD - WIN
- stj007 - WIN
- me202308 - LOSS
- Guarani - WIN
- zebaztinereal - LOSS
- Jokopapa - WIN
- aytac23 - WIN
- singhak07 - LOSS
- ashish4302 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 11, 2023 (5 posts)
- December 11, 2022 (4 posts)
December 10th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 10th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 3-0-6
Net Elo Change: -9
Games Played
- gambit8211 - WIN
- Jbarone - LOSS
- MondongoFrito - LOSS
- trushant - LOSS
- Seykoner24 - LOSS
- prabhakarpedda - WIN
- melikelmerda9a - LOSS
- gozejoel12 - WIN
- SkipperB - LOSS
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 10, 2022 (2 posts)
December 9th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 9th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 0-0-3
Net Elo Change: -17
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 9, 2023 (4 posts)
- December 9, 2022 (10 posts)
Redditor reverse engineers the Slay the Spire mapmaking algorithm
For a side project I'm toying with I went looking for this exact thing and am glad to find it. Very fun and interesting stuff.
"How God plays chess"
An interesting article which delves into the history of endgame tables (where computers have calculated every possible position for a defined number of pieces.) The article shares some interesting anecdotes from the origins of ending tables, as well as a parable (I've copied the start of it below.)
Featuring prominently, and the storyteller of the below parable is Ken Thompson. He isn't a name many will be familiar with, but he was working in Bell labs on things like the C programming language and UNIX.
He created the first endgame table for King-Queen vs King-Rook, which was a monumental thing, something which had never been done before. And the insights gained, and the understanding of what it would take to solve chess, are a fascinating read.
One day World Champion Garry Kasparov, who towers above all his rivals, reached an Elo of 3000. When the rating list was released the heavens over Baku opened and an Angel of the Lord descended. He approached Garry and said: “For what you have achieved you are invited to play a game of chess against God.”
Garry was overwhelmed. He dressed into his finest and got onto the golden escalator that transported him to heaven. There the Angel led him into a small room where God was sitting, drinking coffee and looking at a computer screen. Garry was somewhat surprised that He was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and had a fairly unkempt white beard. He bowed deeply and said:
“Oh Almighty Lord, Creator of the Universe…”
“Just call me God,” God interrupted. “Or G, which is what most of my friends call me.”
“Okay, God, it is a great privilege for me to stand in your presence and to actually play a game of chess against you. Of course I have absolutely no expectation of winning. I assume you play a perfect game!?”
“Yes,” replied God, “I have done the 32-piece endgame.”
“Ahh,” said Garry, “Of course that is trivially easy for you.”
“No, no,” said God, “it was really tough. More than 10^35 legal positions — it took the matter from a good-sized planet to store. But let us play. You can have white.”
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A "no phone" roadtrip
This is a real heartwarming video about a roadtrip between a father and a daughter, who vow not to use their phones during the trip. It's cute seeing the re-adjustment to the old days way of roadtripping, but the dynamic between them is something truly special.
December 8th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 8th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 4-0-1
Net Elo Change: +18
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 8, 2023 (4 posts)
- December 8, 2022 (6 posts)
- December 8, 2004 (1 post)
December 7th, 2024
Automated Archives for December, 7th 2024
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Chess For the Day
Record: 1-0-0
Net Elo Change: +5
Games Played
Blog Posts On This Day
- December 7, 2023 (7 posts)
- December 7, 2022 (4 posts)
- December 7, 2021 (1 post)
Fly Me To The Moon (2024) - 3 of 5 Atlas Rockets
I heard the hook of this movie and put off watching it, but I'm glad I did. It was cute and well done. Reminded me of a mixture of The Right Stuff and Wag The Dog.
