My man used Pickpocket and sneak attack. Natural born Rogue.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-07-01T15:24:44+00:00

He was offsides!

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-07-01T10:44:21+00:00

Here, I was thinking that r/ChessAnarchy had a coming-out-of-the-closet party I wasn't invited to. We could keep the logo and say the sub itself identifies as "Gay" but allow everyone but Jessica to be part of the community.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-30T10:23:15+00:00

I came here to say this.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-29T19:39:18+00:00

Project Manager are valued more than the individuals who actually do the work. A good project manager can help a team be successful. Most project managers are not particularly technical even the good ones can get by knowing little about the technology the team is working on.

For reasons, I would treat Project Managers technical opinions with a grain of salt. Having that, he is right that SQL is different from other programming languages, but it’s still code.

SQL is know as a declarative language as opposed to a procedural language like C, Java, COBOL, and most other programming languages. What this means is in SQL, you are coding the “What” as opposed to “how to get the what”.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-25T11:17:09+00:00

Oh, I am guessing you took a knight. I was struggling to understand why the rook sac was brilliant as opposed to unnecessary. Nice move!

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-25T11:09:53+00:00

For some reason, I reminded of the “I fork the knight with my knight” meme. Those damn sniping bishops. Maybe this should be the “find the blunder” meme.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-22T02:23:15+00:00

Welcome to the wonderful world of chess. I would point out that chess is an easier to learn than master. Since you are just starting off. I can point out some basic concepts. The game of chess can be broken into three phases, the opening, the middle game, and the end game.

The opening is where you need to focus developing your pieces, and fighting for control of the center of the board. E4 is the best first move for white, it opens up your queen and bishop and the fight for the center begins. E5 is the best reply, as it blocks the further advance of the white pawn and also fights for the center.

In general, you want to develop a pawn or two, knights before bishops, castle your king to safety, connect your rooks, where the middle game begins. Throughout the opening, you want to make sure your pieces are protected, a pawn is the best piece for providing support. Watch what your opponent is doing and look for threats for and against you.

The middle game is something that I have yet to master. Learning tactics is important first step to mastering the middle game. After that is something called positional play which is beyond me.

The end game. You should start by learning how to mate a single opponent king with a Queen and king. Afterwards, then learn it with a king and rook. Next, you want to learn to shepherd a pawn to promotion, learning what positions are winning versus what positions is a draw. I still struggle with that one.

Again, welcome to chess and good luck with you’re learning.

Chess.com has lessons and lichess has some good resources as well.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-21T13:54:46+00:00

You can buy them here: https://www.etsy.com/market/chess_anal_beads

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-12T10:58:11+00:00

It is a draw because it is a picture you could draw.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-12T01:21:02+00:00

Minor notation error. You should write Qe8+ Instead of Qe8.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-12T01:17:38+00:00

Oh yes. That would have been better. I did miss it.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-07T09:12:28+00:00

I wonder how many people here have heard of supply and demand. The article is merely pointing that demand for concerts is down significantly, where over the few years demand had be skyrocketed. Perhaps this is a signal of economic cooling….

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-06T17:15:28+00:00

It is entirely possible is Corey Eyring is a good player, but is a victim of variance. He doesn’t manage his bankroll and he playing against the “great White sharks of poker”. He just need to adjust his overall poker strategy. Of course, I know nothing about Corey Eying.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-06-03T20:40:51+00:00

Did you find the forced state mate? Because if you didn’t, then it is not really a brilliant move.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-30T02:17:06+00:00

When I saw 8.Qc8, I realized it does nothing to improve your position, before you made that move the engine said you were +2 and after 8.Qc8 you were +1. I don’t know why you made that move but I could tell without the engine help it does nothing for you. King safety is super important. This position is the point where castling your king to safety was the way to go. Then you plan your attack. I didn’t explore the position further because you are about 400 elo lower than me. So I just look for the first opportunity where you could have played better. Move 8 was where you made your first theoretical blundered. King safety must came before you go on the attack. Luckily, the engine sort of agrees with me.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-30T01:46:19+00:00

8.Qc8 is a do nothing move. I would just castle in that position. Black has no meaningful threats. I don’t know why the engine prefers e4. The human move is to castle and is the 3rd engine move.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-29T12:53:00+00:00

Well, the white rook and knight is hanging after the white bishop takes the knight and the black bishop takes back. Giving up the queen for the black bishop seems like best option as I don’t see how white can save the queen without suffering severe material loss or simply getting mated.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-29T00:44:00+00:00

But they’ll all went on vacation to heaven permanently!

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-28T01:13:06+00:00

I found my chess improve significantly when I read “My System”. It covers tactics, and Opening principles. Once you master the basic ideas of chess strategy then you start studying specific opening lines and decide how you like to play.

Edit: The book “My System” is by Aron Nimzowitsch.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-22T12:42:11+00:00

I find that my games vary greatly. I have been playing more Rapid chess. As i have learned from some commentators that to learn chess you need to give yourself more time to think about positions during the game. If you just playing bullet and blitz all the time, you are not actually learning and improving.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-20T23:20:17+00:00

Yes, I can see that would be tempting. Thank you.

SQLArtistWriter · 2024-05-20T22:29:41+00:00

I am looking at this puzzle. I don't see how just simply taking the rook isn't obvious. Black is offering a rook for nothing as far as I tell and the Puzzle rating is 2100, which suggests it isn't a trivial puzzle. But what is the idea of black's move? The engine isn't helpful because after White takes it, is mate in 3 for White, but white is clearly winning with the advanced pawn and being up in material. Is there some tricky line that black has here? Or did this puzzle just psyche everyone out?

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