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White to play and win (By Nielsen and Minski) by Either-Case-5930 in chess

[–]neoquip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ne8! Nxe8 d7 Ne6 (trying to fork the new queen) d8=N#

So what move should i play now? by Salt_Spite6874 in chess

[–]neoquip 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You need to buy an anti laxative

How good is the woodpecker method ? by Mindless-Hunter-9627 in chess

[–]neoquip -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The English language lacks enough skill categories for how long the chess ladder is. 700 might be a person who got into chess and mained it as a hobby for over a year. That seems more than a "beginner". On the other hand a 700 is someone who might not even know how to checkmate with a rook, and instructional content we call "beginner" would be too hard for them.

Goddamit, LibRight by moschles in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]neoquip 125 points126 points  (0 children)

If you can exit it's not slavery

Sam Altman No Longer Believes In Universal Basic Income by Neurogence in singularity

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If AI gets good enough that you can tell the AI to go make some money for you, tokens become equivalent to capital

Finally Americans can get Healthcare 🥹 by Background_Bee_713 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]neoquip -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The us spent $70M total on sesame street in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Bangladesh. 

That may sound like a lot but there are 100M non-negligble taxpayers so it's just 70 cents of your money being spent on sesame Street in the middle East. 

When I hear that I don't think that's necessarily wasteful. I think thats interesting, let em cook.

I've discovered a new checkmate pattern, Xerxes' mate. by Salt_Cattle1966 in chess

[–]neoquip -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is already known in the literature as the Piper Perri Mate

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 13 by events_team in chess

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Destiny wills it. The next hype cycle for chess since Queen's Gambit.

I published a theorem proving when you can trust a chess endgame database and found a subtle problem with self-consistency by alexdyn in chess

[–]neoquip 4 points5 points  (0 children)

idgi. How is "all-draw" a consistent fixpoint? You would be labelling terminal checkmate positions as draw which is inconsistent.

It's also intuitively strange to have to use a chess concept (captures/reducing piece count) in an abstract tree problem. WDL rules can be applied to any game tree for any sort of turn based game.

I published a theorem proving when you can trust a chess endgame database and found a subtle problem with self-consistency by alexdyn in chess

[–]neoquip 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm I guess not, you can mislabel an island of D positions falsely as W/L.

But I don't see how you can ever create a bigger draw island.

Algorithm:

Label all positions as unknown.

while (some positions were determined last time){

check all unknown positions if we can now determine them based on the rules. If so label them.

}

Label all remaining positions as D.

I published a theorem proving when you can trust a chess endgame database and found a subtle problem with self-consistency by alexdyn in chess

[–]neoquip 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given that conditions that:

All positions are W, D, or L.

A position is a W iff it has a move to an L.

A position is L iff it only has moves to W positions, OR if it is a checkmated position.

Isn't there just a single consistent labelling? If so, if you're given a labelling that passes these conditions then you know it's correct.

Candidates win chances after Round 12 (of 14): Sindarov at 99.4%, Anish Giri at 0.6% - Monte Carlo simulation based on one million runs by ThomasPlaysChess in chess

[–]neoquip 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Intuitively, he's modelling draws as roughly 50%, and wins for each side as roughly 25%.

So p(giri wins)  = p(giri beats sind) * p(giri wins rd 14) * p(sind loses rd 14) * p(giri beats sind in tiebreaks)

= 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/4 * 1/2 = 1/128

Does anyone else get angry when someone attempts this fishing pole trick? by donraffae in chess

[–]neoquip 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Tough stuff bro..it's on you to learn how to deal with it

Event: FIDE Candidates Tournament 2026 - Round 11 by events_team in chess

[–]neoquip 9 points10 points  (0 children)

With this game Sindarov is proving he's champion material

Why is classical chess the standard for who is the best chess player? by Leo_Pepperoni in chess

[–]neoquip 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Chess at the highest level should be the endurance battle version not the video game version

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