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alip, 6 months ago to chess

you must be extremely polite to your opponent when talking but you must be a complete sadist when making moves, you must take pleasure in seeing their pieces suffer for squares, for air, #zugzwang must make you cum a little... #chess

alip, 8 months ago to chess

In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are caused by either impatience, complacency, exhaustion, or all of the above. -- Pal Benko #chess #chesspunks #quotes

lichess, 9 months ago to chess

Fun fact: around 30% of games played on Lichess are casual instead of rated! Which do you prefer to play? #lichess #chess

alip, 10 months ago to chess

So often, as any player will agree, it is hopes and fears which seem to influence the choice of a move. Notoriously, the weaker player will tend to exaggerate both his advantages and his disadvantages, thinking that he has a win in a good position, and a loss with a bad one. This emotional liability seems less obvious at higher levels... -- Jonathan Rowson - The Seven Deadly Chess Sins #chess #chesspunks #quotes

alip, 10 months ago to random

perl-5.38 has classes. is it a beautiful time to be alive? "New class feature - new experimental syntax is now available for defining object classes, where per-instance data is stored in "field" variables that behave like lexicals." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/perl5.38#Release_Notes #perl #oop

lichess, 10 months ago to chess German

Share your best https://lichess.org game of June (only from June - only standard and not variant games and only one game per player - additional games will be ignored!) until June 5th by a comment of this post! The winner will be mentioned in a Lichess blog post with a commentary by a titled player of the game. Good luck! #chess #contest