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
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
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
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