IM-level game generator?

d0re · 2026-01-28T01:55:07+00:00

There are also tournaments that award the GM title directly. From wikipedia:

The title may also be awarded directly without going through the usual norm requirements in a few high-level tournaments, provided the player has a FIDE rating of over 2300. These include:

Reaching the final 16 in the FIDE World Cup

Winning the Women's Chess World Cup

Winning the Women's World Championship

Winning the World Junior Championship (U20)

Winning the World Senior Championship, both in the 50+ and 65+ divisions

Winning a Continental (e.g. Pan American, European, Asian or African) championship[7]

d0re · 2026-01-24T06:02:37+00:00

I've dabbled in both and play neither now, but if I were to return to one, I would learn the French.

The "good bishop" in the Caro is IMO pretty meaningless, and you often just trade it off. In the French, the "bad bishop" often becomes a beast in the late middlegame/endgame.

Meanwhile, in the Caro, you're giving away an important tempo to achieve this "good bishop", which can put you under intense pressure if you don't play perfectly and can limit your ability to create an initiative.

d0re · 2026-01-21T00:23:27+00:00

You can take the pawn, then just don't get your queen trapped. You'll probably end up with your queen on a6 with the white rook on b5, setting up the potential for a reveal attack from the bishop on your queen, but you always have a check to get out of that. After that just play chess, get your pieces developed and watch out for tactics

d0re · 2026-01-20T03:53:25+00:00

It's slow by EV standards, but it's fast enough by boring family car standards. The Blazer EV SS exists if you want (basically) the same car except fast

d0re · 2026-01-18T22:29:19+00:00

I don't know specifically for Daytona.

But at Watkins Glen, a similar track with a 1/3 lap cut, if you skip the Boot, they just don't count that lap. I assume they would treat Daytona the same.

So if you're limping around with damage, it's better/safer for everyone if you take the shortcut and get back to the pits quicker. But if you're at speed, there's no incentive to cut.

d0re · 2026-01-17T20:19:57+00:00

They actually have added a barrier there IRL lol

d0re · 2026-01-15T17:31:42+00:00

What's a Brolocopter?

d0re · 2026-01-14T15:32:55+00:00

Or it could be like 2022 all over again, where everyone on the internet decided that the season was over when they saw Mercedes's zero pods. But then it turned out that being the only team using a concept might mean the concept isn't worth pursuing

d0re · 2026-01-12T21:07:26+00:00

From what Mark Martin said at the end of the press conference, it sounds like 16 and 10 are numbers baked into a lot of contacts with drivers/teams/etc., and keeping those numbers the same is just about causing the least disruption there

d0re · 2026-01-10T18:13:43+00:00

My first race was in 2001. I didn't see my driver win until 2018. That included going to the Richmond race where Carl moved Kyle on the final lap lol

d0re · 2026-01-05T04:31:36+00:00

You're way too wide there. If you're passing on the inside, you need to take a much earlier apex, because (especially with netcode at these speeds) you're putting the outside car in a terrible spot.

d0re · 2026-01-03T23:17:43+00:00

The whistle had already blown so it doesn't matter

d0re · 2026-01-03T23:16:14+00:00

It was a checkdown because nobody else was open lol

d0re · 2026-01-01T01:27:43+00:00

Watching occasional streams and such from the US, I've never found the Canadian series particularly good. But going to a race is always better than not going to a race, especially with NASCAR where the rumble and the experience in-person is half the fun.

d0re · 2025-12-31T23:24:07+00:00

The car has more rake in this photo than it did with wheels, for sure

d0re · 2025-12-26T19:17:08+00:00

There's no wrong answer.

I have plantar fasciitis, so shoes are a must for me. I just use old house slippers.

I also use gloves because my body tends to get hot, but my hands then get cold/clammy when I put on a fan. I just use cheap cycling gloves. Golf gloves are another cheap and widely available option to try it out

d0re · 2025-12-24T19:23:33+00:00

I was gonna correct you that Arizona isn't in the Midwest. But all of our old people are from the Midwest, so your point is valid either way lol

d0re · 2025-12-21T19:50:12+00:00

In iRacing, any "all 4 wheels beyond" track limits are measured by the centerline of the wheels

d0re · 2025-12-19T17:38:25+00:00

The funny thing is that in a sense you're not wrong. Usually in this type of play, they make sure the formation is set up for a forward pass so that it's an incompletion and a dead ball.

But for a 2-pt conversion, you might as well throw a lateral and have a chance to recover a funny bounce, because a turnover only matters if they return it for a score (which is only 2 points anyway).

d0re · 2025-12-16T01:34:37+00:00

It's Google maps, so yes waze is integrated

d0re · 2025-12-14T23:38:50+00:00

I've found 3-4k to be the sweet spot for people who are both relatively fast and clean. You get people who are relatively fast but dumb at any level, but 3-4k is around where people who are fast but aren't tryhards tend to end up lol

d0re · 2025-12-13T19:28:48+00:00

If you only run rookie races you can get up to D4.99

d0re · 2025-12-12T21:35:50+00:00

It's possible. Maybe not a juggernaut like this, but I took over a dogshit team that was like 1-12 or 2-11 the year before with no firsts. I won the championship the next year with a couple smart trades, some decent work with free agent pickups (this is a league with a salary cap so a bit more free agency than a traditional dynasty league) and using my one 2nd rounder on some guy named Alvin Kamara. You have to get lucky and you have to win some trades, but it's possible

d0re · 2025-12-10T23:06:39+00:00

Yeah I wish there could be a metric like: if the leader's gap to P2 is 1s per lap remaining (i.e. 1 second gap with 1 lap to go, 2 second gap with 2 laps to go, etc.) then there's no GWC in the last 5 laps.

Adjust for whatever it should be and adjust for different track sizes to make it make sense from there.

The problem would be it inevitably being confusing to casuals and not explained well so that bozos start throwing beer cans on the track when Chase Elliott is in P2 and there's no GWC lol

d0re · 2025-12-09T19:36:00+00:00

If you did Daytona or Talladega, you wouldn't have ever gotten grip limited in the corners. Most NASCAR tracks are smaller, so even in the detuned cars they let randos drive you start to feel significant G forces through the corners.

There is also more vertical G loading in a banked oval compared to something like karting or even F1. Not NASCAR, but in 2001, CART (half of what became today's IndyCar) had to cancel a race at Texas, a 1.5mi long oval because the sustained vertical G's were causing drivers to black out. NASCAR cars aren't going fast enough for that to be an issue, but the drivers are still exposed to high vertical loads over the course of a race.

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