Maybe he means that he's extremely brightly coloured. Which I could probably agree with.

I'm not sure they are - I'd hazard a guess that the "neutrals" (i.e. not Arsenal/Man City/Tottenham/Man Utd fans) are mostly supporting Arsenal in the title race.

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In today's world, it's pretty easy to rack up enormous counts for a single activity; I've played 2714 chess games on chess.com

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I do, but then I'm a maths graduate.

It's reminiscent of the William Hague campaign in 2001. The focus of his campaign was on Britain's saving the pound (as opposed to joining the Euro), which was probably the optimal position on the issue itself - but it was seen as a niche issue that wasn't a real priority, and his party didn't win.

To be fair, British puddings are usually great. This particular pudding goes particularly well with custard.

(National chess federations are, to their credit, not rolling over with respect to this one. Yosha Iglesias remains eligible to be French women's champion, because eligibility for that is determined by the French chess federation and not FIDE.)

There are already two good adaptations of this book series, both starring Ian Holm. What would be the point of a third?

I wrote a fanfic like that once, alternating between a reliable narrator who didn't know what was going on, and an unreliable narrator who did. Good fun to write, that.

I know it well, mostly from the Choose Your Own Adventure series and other forms of interactive fiction.

I'm reminded of the football club that sacked a manager for poor results after one game. @yossa.bsky.social thought it would have been a better piece of performance art had they sacked him before the side had played under him at all.

That or "there's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's elvish".

Just how bad is Slow Sort? YouTube video by Musicombo

Claude is creating the SlowSort of coding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsnx...

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Oddity of the day: a Barnstaple-Long Buckby train ticket is cheaper with the "any permitted" route option than the "via Birmingham" route option. Why? Who knows.

That sort of thing, yes. GMs tend to be risk-averse, and want to ensure they're not out-of-pocket from going to a tournament.

If you want to attract grandmasters to a chess tournament, putting money into the conditions fund is *much* more cost-efficient than putting it into the prize fund.

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I don't think I currently know any humans with that name, but I'm quite familiar with the county.

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Cheating on a country music girlfriend? That sounds incredibly safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSy...

(In fact, it's almost literally the OG Delphic Oracle meme, isn't it? "If you invade Persia, you will destroy a great kingdom.")

To be fair, Trump appears to be doing a good job of toppling a regime, it's just that the one he's doing that to is his own.

No, the closest would probably be someone like Mitch McConnell losing his seat. The US president doesn't really have a seat in the same way that the UK prime minister does.

Midsomer Murders has been doing that for over 20 years.

Not really. (They're an existing double-act, and already were when the PC - Mac ads came out.)

Yes, but the mayorship of New York City is a purely local role, whereas federal representatives have to straddle the dual roles of local and national politician.

West Indies home matches should be reasonable in terms of time zones.

I'm sure even Lord North would shudder at the mediocrity
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