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I guess it's conceivable you can go an entire game without putting someone in check until checkmate.
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HootTheOwl posted:Don't you say check before checkmate? Like players are regularly put in check? I think in tournament play it's considered impolite to say "check" because it implies the other player isn't paying attention.
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Apr 14, 2021 05:58
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V-Men posted:I guess it's conceivable you can go an entire game without putting someone in check until checkmate. Technically, but it basically requires your opponent to put themselves into a spot where you checkmate them instead of you forcing them to move into that spot.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:29
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You can win without putting and opponent into check. You can argue it's almost better because your opponent might not perceive the threat. Pros don't really say checkmate either. It's basically moot because you have to defend your king when in check, so of you're not paying attention enough you'd make an illegal move anyway. 5D Chess with multiverse time travel is a real game if you really want to get mind hosed by chess.
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Apr 14, 2021 06:30
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Do all pro games even go to the checkmate move?
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Apr 14, 2021 07:01
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I liked chess more as a kid when we didn't say "check" because then you just took the opponents king and won because they didn't pay attention and so were fairly beaten.
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Apr 14, 2021 07:01
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Scholtz posted:Do all pro games even go to the checkmate move? If good players realize they're trapped they'll forfeit. It's considered poor sport to draw out a game to the last move when it's obviously lost.
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Apr 14, 2021 10:59
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I'm pretty sure most chess players would recognize most endgame patterns, so it'd just be like "well, you're 20 moves from checkmate and there's no counterplay, so good game."
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Apr 14, 2021 12:40
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My boss just told me China has Captain America style supersoldiers and that he can't wait for them to start a war so all the "stupid people can be cleansed" before going on about macheteing Pelosi to death. He legit scares me.
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Apr 14, 2021 12:43
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Clarste posted:I'm pretty sure most chess players would recognize most endgame patterns, so it'd just be like "well, you're 20 moves from checkmate and there's no counterplay, so good game." I'm so bad at chess it's impossible to recognize my patterns because they don't exist!
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Apr 14, 2021 12:49
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Devorum posted:My boss just told me China has Captain America style supersoldiers and that he can't wait for them to start a war so all the "stupid people can be cleansed" before going on about macheteing Pelosi to death. "Won't be me though." 
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Apr 14, 2021 13:20
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Forceholy posted:"Won't be me though." He's 60, overweight, has diabetes, and literally believes the government has a weather changing deathray but Obama stole control of it but thinks he'll survive any war or plague.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:26
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Devorum posted:He's 60, overweight, has diabetes, and literally believes the government has a weather changing deathray but Obama stole control of it but thinks he'll survive any war or plague. I bet he believes climate change is a hoax, too.
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Apr 14, 2021 13:41
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"Climate change cannot be anthropogenic because Obama controls the climate, and he's a lizard." is probably a statement that like 90% of Republicans would agree with in a YouGov survey. Not joking.
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Apr 14, 2021 14:24
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VitalSigns posted:I think in tournament play it's considered impolite to say "check" because it implies the other player isn't paying attention. DarkHorse posted:If good players realize they're trapped they'll forfeit. It's considered poor sport to draw out a game to the last move when it's obviously lost. These are both true, except the word is “resign.” “Forfeit” is something like not showing up for a game that’s scheduled (that’s how Bobby Fischer lost the championship).
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Apr 14, 2021 16:56
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Clarste posted:I'm pretty sure most chess players would recognize most endgame patterns, so it'd just be like "well, you're 20 moves from checkmate and there's no counterplay, so good game." This makes Chess sound like it's just fancy Tic-Tac-Toe.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:27
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Doctor Nutt posted:This makes Chess sound like it's just fancy Tic-Tac-Toe. endgames are because there's fewer options for example a king versus two rooks, even a schoolchild can figure out the sequence for checkmate. or a king versus king, it's pretty easy to figure out this is a draw actually playing to get to that point on purpose though, that's not solved yet in theory it could be since like Tic-Tac-Toe there are a finite number of squares and a finite number of pieces, so there's a finite number of gamestates and if you knew them all you could predict whether either player can force a win or a draw with perfect play. Chess has not been solved yet so no one knows whether perfect play ends in a win or a draw, although statistically white tends to win more games... E: fun fact, checkers has been solved and like Tic-Tac-Toe both sides can force a draw so you can only win if the other person fucks up Good luck memorizing how to do it though VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Apr 14, 2021 18:33
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VitalSigns posted:endgames are because there's fewer options  I guess if someone felt the need to explain my joke it's not very funny.
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Apr 14, 2021 18:39
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nah it's probably just me, I'm  personified
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Apr 14, 2021 18:44
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quote:A friend just sent this to me. If the real issue is “race” I wo Systemic Racism in Chicago?
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Apr 14, 2021 23:15
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Medullah posted:I'm so bad at chess it's impossible to recognize my patterns because they don't exist! Same. I've got some old habits and openings that I still use and I'm OK at it for someone who doesn't play a lot. I've given problems to a friend I have that plays in tournaments simply because I'm doing everything "wrong" and I guess making him think in patterns he's not used to.
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Apr 14, 2021 23:35
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Oh no, Biden is now facing the Twilight Werewolves. Hell of a way to find out my aunt is a fan of both Trump and Twilight.
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Apr 15, 2021 02:30
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Katt posted:The founders were pretty lovely people so probably yes but also gently caress using them to gauge modern laws. "The founders also owned other humans so we probably shouldn't give a poo poo what they thought."
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Apr 15, 2021 02:48
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I saw a “you care about Matt gaetz sex trafficking children? Why not Eric swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy? Which is a threat to National security?!” Which is certainly a take.
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Apr 15, 2021 12:23
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Grammarchist posted:Oh no, Biden is now facing the Twilight Werewolves. Hell of a way to find out my aunt is a fan of both Trump and Twilight. Funny considering how all of them (except maybe the cartels?) were reacting during the Trump administration
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Apr 15, 2021 12:33
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Grammarchist posted:Oh no, Biden is now facing the Twilight Werewolves. Hell of a way to find out my aunt is a fan of both Trump and Twilight. [TrumpSalutesDPRKGeneral.jpg]
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Apr 15, 2021 12:39
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DarkHorse posted:Funny considering how all of them (except maybe the cartels?) were reacting during the Trump administration That's only because you're remembering how it actually happened and not how it happened through the lens of ChudVision.
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Apr 15, 2021 16:37
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Grammarchist posted:Oh no, Biden is now facing the Twilight Werewolves. Hell of a way to find out my aunt is a fan of both Trump and Twilight. Man these loving idiots sure forgot about Oliver North.
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Apr 15, 2021 17:52
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 I feel like comparing the current economy to the New Deal would not go as well as they think it would...
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Apr 15, 2021 17:56
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Seems like a bad idea to point out people were making essentially the same prediction/argument decades ago and weren't correct then, but what do I know.
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A lot of morons legitimately believe the New Deal slowed down the recovery from the Great Depression, and probably that it was a communist plot or something
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Cognac McCarthy posted:A lot of morons legitimately believe the New Deal slowed down the recovery from the Great Depression, and probably that it was a communist plot or something Growing up in a conservative area it was common knowledge that the new deal failed and really it was WW2 that saved the economy from the depression. After all the new deal just had people digging holes in the ground then filling them back it. It was completely useless and obviously just wasted money that could have gone towards useful activity. Meanwhile in world war two we built a bunch of stuff and sank it in the pacific which is completely different let me tell you. e: Massive government deficit spending to help people: bad. Massive government deficit spending to kill people: good
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Apr 15, 2021 18:32
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Digging and filling up ditches: Fake Economy Blowing up foreigners with bombs: Real Economy.
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Dig through the ditches and burn through the witches I slam in the back of my Economy
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Soylent Pudding posted:Growing up in a conservative area it was common knowledge that the new deal failed and really it was WW2 that saved the economy from the depression. After all the new deal just had people digging holes in the ground then filling them back it. It was completely useless and obviously just wasted money that could have gone towards useful activity. Meanwhile in world war two we built a bunch of stuff and sank it in the pacific which is completely different let me tell you. IDK if it's where I grew up but that talking point never took hold despite occasionally hearing it, primarily because we still had a ton of sidewalks with little bronze emblems proudly proclaiming they were made by the WPA.
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Apr 15, 2021 19:57
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Noted useless government project with no economic benefit "The TVA".
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Taerkar posted:Digging and filling up ditches: Fake Economy Digging ditches and filling them with the corpses of foreigners: Compromise?
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Handsome Ralph posted:IDK if it's where I grew up but that talking point never took hold despite occasionally hearing it, primarily because we still had a ton of sidewalks with little bronze emblems proudly proclaiming they were made by the WPA. They loving knew back then you had to advertise what the government was doing for you, hopefully they've learned that lesson again
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Taerkar posted:Noted useless government project with no economic benefit "The TVA". Over Easter break, my family went down to rent a cabin in the Smoky Mountains. Right behind us were huge electrical poles put in place by the TVA. I decided to use that moment to tell my daughters about the awesomeness of massive government spending. Also, I am glad to see that the Chicago tribune has always been filled with lovely people. Edit: I have actually had a person say that massive government spending of the new deal did nothing but the even larger massive government spending of WW2 did everything. It is crazy out there sometimes.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Growing up in a conservative area it was common knowledge that the new deal failed and really it was WW2 that saved the economy from the depression. After all the new deal just had people digging holes in the ground then filling them back it. It was completely useless and obviously just wasted money that could have gone towards useful activity. Meanwhile in world war two we built a bunch of stuff and sank it in the pacific which is completely different let me tell you. A friend "gifted" me an entire drat book about it: "New Deal or Raw Deal".
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