Picture of two elbow braces, two knee braces, and a wrist brace.

"What's it like doing grappling in your 40s?"

#grappling #jiujitsu #bjj #wrestling #judo

Chess 960 position where just the an and b rook and knight are swapped.

What kind of silly #chess960 starting position is this? It's like writing a book report using Wikipedia and just changing a few words and claiming it's totally not regular #chess.

"Swap the rook and knight, good enough!"

14' サカナクション - Ame (B) SAKANATRIBE MIX・ミュージック YouTube video by 空棘魚

Music is such a pure form of art and by far the media most likely to play on my emotions. While I have zero desire to contribute on my own, there's very little that affects me as much.

Somehow, Music by Sakanaction - Music, speaks directly into my soul (~10:53): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5O...

So happy for @expedition33.bsky.social! It truly was a work of art and a breath of fresh air into the gaming world.

That medley was also 🔥

🎶 mc chris: Fett's Vette 20th Anniversary Music Video YouTube video by The vmcampos Comic Book Club

My Titan leaving the @destinythegame.bungie.net Eververse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6R...

I could have replaced Ghost with Copilot or something 🤷

It's bamboozling time!

Black to play and win.

#chesspunks #chess #chesspuzzle #chesspunk

My advice is to always play to your strengths against higher rated players. At least then you're still in your wheel house, even if they are too. There's most likely a much higher skill gap in your weaker areas.

Lastly: every improver should know Lucena and Philidor rook endgames!

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Once you're getting into KvP scenarios it really comes down to tempos, opposition, who can touch a pawn first, etc. There's no room for error at that point. Inaccuracies (and even mistakes) in the middlegame might be salvageable.

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If you get good with queenless positions, then you'd definitely have something there against higher rated opponents - as they might fear drawish positions and play a little too loose.

However, as a general rule: with less pieces on the board, the required accuracy greatly increases.

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There's nothing wrong with playing openings that lead to early endgames. However, if people play them, they have to get solid concept on those types of endgames. Far too often people playing quickly into a rook or minor piece ending then go on to show a lack of understanding.

#chesspunks #chess

Love to see you doing some larger sizes. Your aesthetics are top notch!

Happy Halloween!

#destiny2 #destinythegame @bungie.net

Fun tidbit: in Perl you can use pretty much any self closing characters when applying regex.

Defacto was always:

my $match =~ m/[a-z]+/;

Yet you can also do:

my $match =~ m{[a-z]+};
my $match =~ m'[a-z]+';
my $match =~ m<[a-z]+>;

Living up to that Tim Toady lifestyle.

Meme: "I don't even see the regex anymore. Flags, modifiers, lookaheads"

Perl was my first true language and with that came regular expressions. For the longest of time, I just thought all programmers used regex. That ended up not being the case, so for awhile those were often sent my way.

Now there's helpful sites and probably even AI to help coworkers out.

The world was a better place with Danya in it.

I never directly interacted with him, but his commentary alongside Hess was the best thing out of @chess.com .

He covered a few @passers.gg matches and the hype, along with the ability to quickly find tough moves and explain them, was top tier.

RIP

PSA: Art doesn't have to be good, it just has to be about getting your thoughts out there!

I'd much rather see someone's crude ink drawing in a notebook than I'd ever care to see their AI prompt.

"all rook endings are drawn"

Oh yeah? Well:

"all pawn endings are lost"

That's my personal philosophy at least. I'll do whatever I can to avoid one unless it's the last resort path for a desired result.

#chess #chesspunks

That kicks it off! Now threatening Rh3, but the keep point is now after exf5 we have Nf6. We now have the g4 escape square covered again for Rh3#. White can only delay with Rh1 at that point.

I was quite pleased finding that in a 3 0 game recently.

FEN: 7r/3n2k1/2N2p2/4p1p1/p2pPn2/3P1PK1/BPP2P2/R7 b - - 0 1

Recently I shared a puzzle and mentioned it was one of my favorite tactics. This mate is one of the others I mentioned.

Before this, position was fairly equal but white pushed their luck with Nxc6?? giving me a very sneaky forced mate!

#chess #chesspuzzle #chesspunks

Full line: 1. exf6!! {only winning line} Rxe3 2. Rxe3 {must} Rxe3 3. fxg7 and now black cannot stop white from queening.

Big fan of hitting the knight on the back rank with a pawn as there's no way for the knight to defend queening. That's the tactic GM Howell covered :)

FEN: 1k2rn2/1pp1r1pp/1p3p2/1Pn1P3/8/P1B1R1P1/2P3BP/2K1R3 w - - 1 28

Hit one of my absolute favorite tactics at the end of this sequence. I don't know if it has a name or not, but it's up there with hook mate & Boden's mate for me.

Actually learned it watching GM Howell covering a tournament several years back.

#chesspunks #chess #chesspuzzle

I enjoyed the node chain building, the death wave in-between encounters was so-so

.Loved the first encounter; second was good but the physics were comical at first - blasting us into the ether; planets feels out of place yet the best encounter.

Overall: better than older raids and beautiful areas.

My only true complaints about RoN are more so on teammates and getting robbed during contest mode. Death animation started and then we wiped 😐

As for teammates: master planets with a sub optimal "ad clear" guardian was rough. Replaced and we were done in one.

future me hates current me, because current me just assumes future me is going to be rich with infinite time - allowing future me to afford things like personal trainers, dieticians, etc.

When all future me wants to do is the same thing current me wants to do: play video games and too much chess.

Okay, but why did @microsoft.com go with Copilot for the name of its AI offering instead of just bringing back Clippy?

On a similar note: if I were coming out with an AI offering, it'd 100% be BonziBuddy 2.0, just without all the spyware. Which it looks like BonziBuddy is just NFTs nowadays 🤷

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Stay safe out there Elements.

What a novel idea, I'm also a fan of that painting. It would fit well in any shore town house.

I'm a little biased as Mishra was a big part of the Garden State Passers, and a NJ native, but man am I really impressed with his play this tournament. He was on the receiving end of the 2-results endgame with Hans and Giri while being able to showcase correct play!

No matter how confident I am that I'm simplifying into a won KvK endgame, I'll still avoid it as much as possible; only if it's the only chance left.