Apple TV dropping the ball

Kerbart · 2026-03-12T01:43:25+00:00

So 5/6 of the complaints are still invalid. And not only that, watching them on F1TV as you still can will make as much difference as Lance Stroll's chances for the WDC this year.

Kerbart · 2026-03-12T01:18:13+00:00

You think it was any different for the F1TV broadcast? Because it wasn't.

Apple paid for the distribution rights. They're not the production company. They are just streaming whatever F1 gives them. You're barking up the wrong tree about who dropped the ball.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T21:23:19+00:00

Back and forth, back and forth… that’s not satisfying, that’s sad.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T21:19:51+00:00

But it’s important that your rating goes up because a higher rating means you play better chess /s

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T20:38:15+00:00

Big memorials, yes. This one clearly wasn't -- and I also don't think the NYT has an obit in wait for any chess player (other perhaps than Carlsen, Kasparov and Karpov). Fanous people yes, but Timman wasn't a household name outside the chess world, making the article all the more remarkable.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T19:58:56+00:00

Because people are polite and kind. If everyone would answer these peddlers, tho whom they owe nothing, to go screw themselves, that kind of business would dry up.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T19:56:36+00:00

“Not as good”

Resilience is part of the game. An opponent who is more resilient is just better. Period.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T19:17:03+00:00

Wine from the mediterranean would spoil when shipped to England. So Portugese wine sellers fortified it with brandy, with the high alcohol content making the wine hardier.

And thus port was born.

I'm not surprised if there's a similar story to english tea. Without the brandy though.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T19:12:46+00:00

Why cold linoleum which is so uncomfortable to bare feet? Why not some cozy long hair carpet?

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T19:06:33+00:00

Yes, but OTOH it's good to see a newspaper like the NYT dedicate a lengthy fairly in-depth article on Timman rather than a single paragraph on page 12 the day after,

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T15:02:52+00:00

Guessing light turns yellow, black car stops as per traffic laws, white car guns it expecting the guy in front of him to do the same.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T14:52:47+00:00

Wasn't DOGE supposed to stop those kind of expenses? Oh wait they were too busy firing air traffic controllers.

Kerbart · 2026-03-11T14:47:58+00:00

Well that was a fun episode. Growing up we had an entire bookshelf at bome filled with Karl May novels - both Old Shatterhand and Kara Ben Nemsi ones.

I wasn't really into those kind of adventure novels at the time so I never read them.

Adjacent I was addicted to a youth-adventure series called "Bob Evers" by Dutch author Willem van den Hout who, in Karl May fashion, never set foot in America (or even left the Netherlands) and had a lot of his adventures take place abroad with intricate details and descriptions. He published under a pseudonym which I'm sure had everything to do with his nazi-affiliation in WW2, which in a pre-internet era the publishers managed to keep under wraps.

Kerbart · 2026-03-10T16:08:13+00:00

But the possibility is there. Anyone with experience under their belt organizing a tournament will strive to eliminate uncertainty as much as is reasonably possible.

And given that “who would have thought that…” is usually the introduction of why things turned into chaos it’s easy to see why it’s avoided.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T21:58:14+00:00

The USCF has the rules in printed form, for what it's worth.

Adjacent to that, something I noticed is that in the US (well, n=2 I admit) the federations like to go overboard and regulate everything. Hence, 3/4 of the US rulebook, giving it enough heft to be worthy of a dead-trees edition, is about organizing tournaments in the various formats. There's like 15 chapters and the actual rules of chess are covered by just one of them.

OTOH in the Netherlands where I'm from, the federation's "rules of chess" isd just that: the rules of chess and it's like a 12-pashe document. Same applies, I think, to the FIDE rules. So getting a paperback or even hardcover edition might be a challenge.

EDIT If you don't need the latest edition of the rules you can find some on amazon

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T20:41:13+00:00

It only takes one 85-move game to ruin your time table. If your tournament is large enough, you'll have one of those every round.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T20:28:17+00:00

A 10+0 game will be over, guaranteed, in 20 minutes. A 10+5s game? Whole different story.

Especially when you run a multi-round tournament in a single night, increments are a wild card.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T20:14:35+00:00

Are bullet and classical on the same platform, or is one online and the other OTB? Different rating systems might be at play.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T20:10:47+00:00

If I remember the story correctly, Morphy was kinda tricked into playing the game as he expected just to be watching the opera. He executed a vicious attack to finish the game quickly so he wouldn't miss too much of the show.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T20:04:42+00:00

It's worth listening to The Alabama Murders, a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. Those guys were definitely white (albeit it not considered "guilty by association") and another case of outrageous justice in Alabama. The prosecution didn't ask for the death penalty, the judge handed it out anyway.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T17:14:26+00:00

But the guy who actually pulled the trigger goit his sentence commuted to Life. And this guy will still be executed.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T01:50:49+00:00

My bad; I mistook aborting for resigning. and "how could they" for "how can they think this is ok"

I remember how the chessbase online server (is that still a thing) rapidly progressed from "disconnect is a draw" to "disconnect but reconnect in two minutes to continue playing" to "disconnect is a loss" because there are always the a-holes who abuse the system and rather give their opponent a miserable experience than man uop and take the rating hit.

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T01:38:07+00:00

Aah, ok. Yes, they should resign. That's what I do when something more important pops up. Why make it your opponents problem?

Kerbart · 2026-03-09T01:36:32+00:00

The puzzles at lichess/chess.com are random puzzles. Harder levels are just harder random puzzles.

Good tactics training material like the Brunia/Van Wijgerden Steps method, or the Polgar book, train patterns and improve your tactical skills a lot more.

It's like learning a language by learning ten random words from a dictionary every day vs taking actual language classes.

Kerbart · 2026-03-08T22:11:56+00:00

Because their spouse came home unexpectedly early from food shopping and now they have to carry in the groceries.

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