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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 10, 2023 14:33:09 GMT
Well, I can't locate you with a high RD. 70 gives you 10K members. 700 gives you a million!
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Post by matejst on Apr 10, 2023 16:03:54 GMT
Well, I can't locate you with a high RD. 70 gives you 10K members. 700 gives you a million! I just registered today. Then I had to go to my village house and I haven't played any game yet. Just solved a few endings and tried the repertoire tree. |
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Post by matejst on Apr 10, 2023 16:43:51 GMT
Then, one cannot search for users. Free accounts cannot, also, solve more than 10 endings per day. Overall, Lichess seems much better. You could try it. Free, lots of stuff.
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Post by matejst on Apr 10, 2023 17:11:14 GMT
Meanwhile, Nepo beat Ding Liren in the second game. It seems that his catastrophic match against Carlsen helped Ian to work on his chess and make a step forward. But the match is not over, and it is too early to make predictions.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 10, 2023 18:25:24 GMT
Then, one cannot search for users. Free accounts cannot, also, solve more than 10 endings per day. Overall, Lichess seems much better. You could try it. Free, lots of stuff. No, you can't search. You can browse the member list, sorting by name, but if the list is too long, it becomes impractical. |
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Post by matejst on Apr 10, 2023 18:51:02 GMT
Then, one cannot search for users. Free accounts cannot, also, solve more than 10 endings per day. Overall, Lichess seems much better. You could try it. Free, lots of stuff. No, you can't search. You can browse the member list, sorting by name, but if the list is too long, it becomes impractical. You can search the Lichess players' database. Then, there are a lot of excellent exercises. Especially the one when you learn how to mate with a bishop and a night. These exercises are especially good for my son. |
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 10, 2023 20:46:45 GMT
Many ways to practice the B+N mate, just playing against Houdini does it.
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Post by matejst on Apr 10, 2023 20:56:16 GMT
Many ways to practice the B+N mate, just playing against Houdini does it. I tried against Hiarcs, with TBs. But here, the explanations/instructions help a lot. All the key positions are well marked. I remember that I had an interface that showed attacked cases, and it helps too. |
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Post by matejst on Apr 13, 2023 21:35:06 GMT
Many of the propaganda videos reveal much more truth than intended. The other day, some Ukr journalists wanted frontline soldiers to encourage civilians to join the army. They would have done better not to say anything. One soldier even said some poetry: today sila, tomorrow mogila.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 13, 2023 22:25:36 GMT
Everyone reveals information with what they say, as well as with that they don't. What's known as "reading Between the lines". I usually pay attention to that, because unlike that which is actually said, the information contained will be the truth.
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Post by matejst on Apr 13, 2023 23:43:48 GMT
Everyone reveals information with what they say, as well as with that they don't. What's known as "reading Between the lines". I usually pay attention to that, because unlike that which is actually said, the information contained will be the truth. As a linguist -- who spent most of his life learning communication as a whole -- I am well aware of this. In general, people are unable to "read between the lines". Men for one set of reasons (inability to be proficient in reading instinctively body language, nor to detect NLP, e.g.) women for others (I find them unable to understand complex notions which implies elementary causality). Usually, it requires wide education and training (as an aside, I am perplexed how a woman who is an expert for saying nothing can pass for a philosopher, here I mean Julia Kristeva). Don't forget that you are both, and that the videos and newspapers are not really intended for us. Stendhal wrote books "for the happy few", but then, Stendhal is long dead.
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Post by matejst on Apr 13, 2023 23:49:51 GMT
BTW, as an other aside, the other day I was driving back from KM with the young Sasha, a colleague of yours. We spoke about Byzantine philosophy, medieval scholastics, Descartes... Such a pleasant travel! Usually I have women passengers, and stories about children, shopping, and similar stuff.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 14, 2023 6:11:24 GMT
To be fair, superficial conversations happen when you meet most people, regardless of sex.
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Post by Ozymandias on Apr 14, 2023 6:22:40 GMT
I am perplexed how a woman who is an expert for saying nothing can pass for a philosopher, here I mean Julia Kristeva). [...] Stendhal wrote books "for the happy few", but then, Stendhal is long dead. You should've heard some of the things Adela Cortina used to say. I mostly avoided her in the post-grade courses, but I still remember the neo-liberal turd she tried to slip us, in the one I did attend.
What Stendhal probably didn't envision, was the high price belonging to that group would eventually have to be paid.
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Post by matejst on Apr 14, 2023 10:21:44 GMT
I am perplexed how a woman who is an expert for saying nothing can pass for a philosopher, here I mean Julia Kristeva). [...] Stendhal wrote books "for the happy few", but then, Stendhal is long dead. You should've heard some of the things Adela Cortina used to say. I mostly avoided her in the post-grade courses, but I still remember the neo-liberal turd she tried to slip us, in the one I did attend.
What Stendhal probably didn't envision, was the high price belonging to that group would eventually have to be paid.
I suspect that he actually wrote "for the unhappy few", but that the proofreader touched up this sentence. |
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