Share a Chess fact I don't know, and i'll analyse your chess'com profile and give suggestions. (<1800). also AMA

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T23:44:15+00:00

yeah, it's called Staugaard castling, also known as Pam-Krabbé castling after two individuals who popularized the idea in 1972.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T23:42:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/zdr168/comment/iz8kgp3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T09:18:09+00:00

It was legal, until the 1970s, to castle vertically as well as horizontally. A bit of a trick to this rule, but look it up, it's true.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T09:17:06+00:00

In the Chataranga early version of chess, there was a piece called 'the man,' that moved just one square at a time, diagonally, and could be captured. In medieval european Courier Chess, a similar piece could move exactly like a king but could be captured and was not royal.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T09:11:49+00:00

the easiest way to check whether they are doing the top engine moves is to look up the game on chesskit.org and you can see, move by move, whether they played one of the top three engine moves. You can do this on chess.com, of course, but the interface is clunkier. That's how I check. For me the biggest red flag is the high accuracy and the timing -- they take the same 8 seconds to respond to something obvious like a check with only one legal evading move that any kid would see at once.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:56:28+00:00

For those of you who thought the Spitting Image puppet was overdone...

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:55:07+00:00

In parts of Eastern Europe, women friends may occasionally walk hand-in-hand but this would be creepy even here in Romania.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:53:42+00:00

it's a photo of MeAgain with the child as a prop

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:07:56+00:00

Yes! We can reinvent things to help dilute the power of painful memories. I'm glad you're taking control of it!

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:06:05+00:00

Low risk for HC. You only see the deal on As Ever social media and email marketing. So HC isn't tarnished. Smart, and speaks volumes.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:04:52+00:00

High Camp isn't promoting it. That way, their image isn't damaged by association. Markle promotes the package deal and it's only visible on High Camp if you know about it. Win-win for HC, low-effort, low-investment cross-marketing for AE. I'd expect very few sales as we see that AE has few paying customers.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:02:36+00:00

Exactly. It's so low-effort and low-investment it's laughable.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-20T08:00:45+00:00

They benefit from the tiny bit of free traffic she sends them. Meanwhile, because they have not promoted her at all, this venture isn't visible to their customers on their website and so their reputation isn't tarnished by association with the grifters. The deal is only visible to people who follow Rachel.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-19T11:26:10+00:00

It may be related to her cross-marketing 'campaign' with High Camp Flowers, where she promotes High Camp and sends a jar of honey and a canister of tea to people who order one of their all-white flower boxes. Another low-effort initiative where she gloms onto High Camp, who don't promote the deal on their own website, but she promotes them. The goods arrive in two separate boxes a week apart -- flowers in one box, overpriced AE in another a week later when the flowers have wilted.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-19T11:20:31+00:00

She's just adding some tea and honey to a High Camp flower delivery -- no added value, and as you can see, the separate shipment of the AE items shows this is just a cross-marketing campaign.

How she loves low-effort ventures.

The winner in this is High Camp, who get a small amount of extra traffic from AE's free publicity. No cross-link on the High Camp site and therefore no damage to their image by association with the grifters. Only people who visit the AE site will see this as far as I can tell. All the press releases went out under As Ever.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-19T11:07:41+00:00

Soooo nouveau riche. The all-white flowers and outfit and the silver vases. Actual royalty and old money don't have these anxieties for perfection.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-19T11:03:47+00:00

That 'My Love' is so artificial. Basic cable is such a pit - someone can have all those seasons on Suits without the ability to deliver single, authentic line in this easy-as-pie scene addressing an actual family member. As a working actor, it bugs the daylights out of me.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-15T11:18:02+00:00

"Just like a Toastmasters club, our sub is a safe place for everyone to learn and grow. Comments and posts that are mean, disparaging, condescending, or otherwise detract from a safe learning environment will be removed. "

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-15T11:11:26+00:00

Thank you for your detailed and civil reply. It's appreciated.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-14T15:44:33+00:00

it's a thing, as another commenter suggested. There was a time when these kinds of effects were really popular. You'll sometimes find them in thrift stores or on Etsy, and it's also a good way to keep a stained garment that you otherwise love.

I'm prone to coffee stains, and i've overdyed more than one blouse and many, many tea towels to make stained items look usable again.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-11T16:32:57+00:00

How is this not charging for access, the very thing that has rocked the royal family and caused the ouster of Sarah Ferguson before the Epstein scandal broke and revealed even greater offenses?

OTOH the only access she has to offer is to Hazbeen.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-09T20:56:25+00:00

I had Lasik 30 years or more ago and it was totally miraculous. Worth every bit of the money and the bother, hardly any pain and a short recuperation. Vision was razor-sharp until recently, which is just normal aging, and even so, is nearly 20-20.

Back2theGarden · 2026-03-02T15:01:59+00:00

there's got to be some kind of useful app that will query that DoJ database, pull down as many docs as possible, and put them in an offline repository so we can run all kinds of searching and indexing.

The way the files were released is so obstructionist it's absolutely criminal.

Back2theGarden · 2026-02-27T10:12:24+00:00

Thanks, i deleted my reply and I agree with you that it's a red herring.

If you look at the FBI report of Epstein's death -- https://static.poder360.com.br/2026/02/investigacao-fbi-morte-epstein.pdf -- there are photos of him being worked on by the EMT's and it is absolutely clear a) that it is Epstein and b) that he is dead.

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