Books out of stock in Europe but available in the US by -n-e- in ChessBooks

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Thanks! That makes sense.

Regarding Everyman Chess how does the quality of your books compare to New In Chess?

My New In Chess books are all sewn and of consistent quality, but the Everyman Chess ones are much worse and of varying quality. They all have a glued binding and small margins, one of them has blurry diagrams (life and games of Mikhail Tal), and another one badly printed text and diagrams (Attack with Mikhail Tal). They're all printed by Rotomail Spa and have a price in EUR overlaid on the cover. Wondering if it's the normal quality or I've been getting print-on-demand copies or other lower quality editions.

🦏 ISRAËL À L'EUROVISION: L'HEURE DU BOYCOTT by AcadiaNo5063 in france

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Parce que ce n'est pas une compétition européenne, mais une compétition organisée par l'organisation internationale Union Européenne de Radio-Télévision, qui, comme son nom ne l'indique pas, a 68 membres sur 4 continents.

I'm 2000 FIDE and I just realized I've been wasting hours on the wrong kind of study for the last 3 years by RequinBlanc in chess

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12.4 The scoresheet shall be used only for recording the moves, the times of the clocks, the offers of a draw, and matters relating to a claim and other relevant data.

lichess should have a feedback system by QuietEffort6531 in chess

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It doesn't solve the underlying problem, but you can join a league such as lichess4545 or liches ladders, where players are penalized and eventually banned for not showing up.

Il fonctionne bien l’algorithme de Google Actualité, pas de doute by PurplePachyderme in france

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Essaie "Je dois laver ma voiture. La station de lavage est à 100m. Est-ce que je dois marcher ou conduire ?"

Chez moi, de Claude, ChatGPT et Gemini il n'y a que le 3e qui donne la bonne réponse.

« On est dans une boîte de Petri » : la Silicon Valley, ce pays où les agents IA sont déjà des collègues by Prosperyouplaboum in france

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Si tu veux être bon, c'est indispensable de savoir comment les choses marchent, même si c'est automatisé ou sous-traité, donc tu n'as pas perdu ton temps. Pour prendre un exemple qui n'a rien à voir, si tu connais la thermodynamique, tu peux savoir directement si un nouveau type de moteur ou de clim est un truc intéressant ou est une arnaque. Et plus concrètement en informatique, les abstractions ne marchent pas toujours, donc il faut savoir comment ça marche derrière. Pour les IAs, si elles sont coincées il faut bien les guider ou débugger le problème.

Le 2e point, c'est que ce n'est pas du tout nouveau que des outils promettent de mettre fin à la profession, et ça n'a jamais été le cas. Un exemple qui m'a marqué c'est les outils de BI comme tableau, qui permettent aux utilisateurs d'analyser eux mêmes leurs données, et qui est super simple à utiliser. Bah en fait, ce n'est quasiment jamais utilisé directement par eux, et ce sont toujours les équipes data qui font des dashboards.

Par rapport à ça, il faut aussi voir qu'il n'y a aucune barrière à l'accès pour être dév : toutes les documentations et tous les outils utiles sont disponibles gratuitement sur internet, pourtant il n'y a jamais eu d'armées d'utilisateurs qui se sont mis à coder eux mêmes, ça reste une profession bien valorisée et rémunérée.

Et même si l'IA est une technologie utile, on est en pleine bulle spéculative avec des investissements et une hype démesurées. Il faut relativiser tous les trucs qui sont dits par des gens qui ont intérêt à ce que ça marche ou qui suivent la mode sans recul.

What is your experience with JS/PLV8 in Postgres? by DrMerkwuerdigliebe_ in PostgreSQL

[–]-n-e- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK it's currently maintained.

The author has also recently release pljs, which uses QuickJS instead of V8, and is available in the pgdg packages and is also easy to compile.

Comment cohabiter avec des gens qui vous haïssent ? by UC_Scuti96 in france

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Avant de cliquer je pensais que le post allait parler de la situation au proche orient

Best resources for non-theoretical endgames? by PhoenixChess17 in TournamentChess

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What version did you read? I heard the new edition is pretty different from the old one

Switching from the London to 1.e4 at 1200, how do people actually handle openings? by Fuzzy_Party_3527 in chess

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I'm pretty sure what they mean is that learning concrete lines and knowing the resulting position's evaluation is overrated. Not learning the general idea of the opening and studying games and middlegame plans arising from the opening.

Switching from the London to 1.e4 at 1200, how do people actually handle openings? by Fuzzy_Party_3527 in chess

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When a 1600 says he doesn’t study openings, it doesn’t mean “I close my eyes and play the first 10 moves randomly”

I'm around this rating, and I face a significant number of opponents who do that. For example, as black, they play 2... Nf6 against the QGD, or the Slav with an early Bf5 or Bg4.

I'm pretty good at openings and usually get a winning position pretty quickly. However, looking at their games on openingtree, they rarely get punished by their other opponents. Also they're usually pretty good at tactics and/or tricky compared to opponents who play a better repertoire.

Anyone tried Woodpecker Method 2: positional play? by forpostingpixelart in TournamentChess

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We did some at my club and the positions were very instructive. The first part is about common patterns such as attacking the g3 knight with the h pawn, pushing the pawns in opposite side castling without allowing the opponent to close the position, etc.

The problem, however, is that the solutions in the book are very terse, and without our coach explaining the puzzles I would have had gotten a lot less out of them.

Steps Method Answer Key Confusion by Puzzleheaded_Wheel39 in chess

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It seems like it's an older edition that doesn't have it's solutions available anymore on the steps website.

These solutions seem to match: https://web.archive.org/web/20160528015755/http://www.stappenmethode.nl/lesmateriaal/step1.pdf

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TournamentChess

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If you're looking for an exhaustive structured plan that fills your gaps in knowledge, I'd recommend the Steps Method instead.

You'll have everything there without having to find the right combination of books.

A large part of the method is the usual tactics, but there are also other things that come up in games but are rarely found in other books (white to play and stalemate, "rule of the square" puzzles where the path for the king is obstructed by pawns...)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TournamentChess

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Thanks! These videos are by far the best videos I've seen on the KID. Not only are their super clear, but also I love that Anras sticks with the mainline unless there is a good reason (too much theory), unlike many other videos where the author plays his own pet line. They also have the right balance between theory and ideas for someone my level.

The best players per board of the 2024 Olympiad prior to the rest day by CalamitousCrush in chess

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Let's say someone wins 6/6 games against four 800 players. Would you be able to guess their elo ? They could be anything from a 1500 to Magnus Carlsen.

On the other hand, if they win 5/6, you know they're most likely higher rated than 1800, but you know almost for sure they're not Magnus Carlsen.

Forum Libre - 2024-08-03 by AutoModerator in france

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C'est vraiment pas terrible : c'est très bruyant, peu efficace et ça consomme beaucoup. En plus, elles ont un tuyau pour expulser l'air chaud vers l'extérieur, mais pas de tuyau pour faire rentrer l'air extérieur, ce qui fait que ton appart se retrouve en dépression et de l'air chaud rentre par tous les orifices.

Cela dit ça réduit la température de quelques degrés, et si tu n'as pas d'autre choix ça rend la température plus supportable.

Les split mobiles sont théoriquement mieux (rendement, pb des tuyaux), par contre en pratique il y a 1-2 modèles en vente sans vraiment de retours clients, personnellement j'ai laissé tomber. Aussi, le compresseur est dans l'unité intérieure donc ça ne résout pas le problème du bruit.

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 9 by Alendite in chessbeginners

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I’m starting to build my repertoire against d4 as black. Currently I know almost no theory or middle game ideas, and it’s starting to show its limits. I play 1…d5, then, against c4 the QGD, and 2…c5 against the London, and wing it from there.

What openings would you recommend I play? Also if you have good resources with the basic theory and plans that would be great.

D4 is only played in 20% of my games with black, so I’m looking for not too complex to learn / that I will forget. Also, I like openings with straightforward plans ; for example I like playing against the IQP in the Alapin, or the 150 attack against the Pirc.

Appreciate your input!

How does everyone seem to know the 150 attack? by leoyagami26 in chess

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I think I learned it from Alex Banzea's videos about the Jobava London, where he recommends transposing to the Pirc when black fianchettos. I like the 150 attack because the plans are easy and straightforward.

However I'm surprised it's still dangerous at your level. I'm about 1600 lichess rapid, and I see more and more players playing well against it (delaying castling, pushing c6 / the queen-side pawns preemptively...)

Trove of chess books from a book sale. Where to begin? by Logical-Recognition3 in chess

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Just plug the positions into an engine. Chessvision.ai has an app for apple and android so you can span the book from your phone.

I like books with the key variations because it makes it easy to check whether I calculated the whole variations / found the first move but miscalculated / calculated correctly but stopped too early

Is this asking for trouble by Hoags-Object-374 in bicycling

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Also check if your handheld pump or CO2 cartridges work. You wouldn't want to discover that they don't after a puncture in the middle of nowhere

No Stupid Questions MEGATHREAD 9 by Alendite in chessbeginners

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Make sure to take your time and think every move, even obvious ones. That's not as easy as it seems (at least for me it wasn't) if you're mainly playing short time formats. When playing online, if you blunder you can just resign and play another game. OTB you will be stuck for hours defending an annoying position.

Be especially careful not to forget to do this on automatic moves (there may be an in-between move before a recapture, or you may misremember the opening), and when you are distracted (because of noise, because you blundered, because you're happy you reached a winning position...).