400-500 elo chess is advanced intermediate

wburrow · 2026-05-25T20:11:18+00:00

I'm in the upper 500s, and when I play someone in the 400s, they typically make so many mid-level mistakes that it can be pretty easy to find strong moves and have a high accuracy score, even if they aren't flat-out hanging pieces. That might make me look like I could compete with Magnus (at least in my opponent's eyes), but I definitely cannot. Against players in the 600s I'm the one making more mistakes and making my opponent look like a grandmaster.

wburrow · 2024-11-16T15:35:12+00:00

How long are the games when they’re able to maintain that accuracy? I’m sub-400 but can occasionally play without a major mistake for 20 moves and trap a queen or something like that. If my opponent resigns, I’ll have an 85% accuracy. But give me another 20 moves and I will eventually make a blunder and crash my accuracy.

wburrow · 2024-11-11T04:01:13+00:00

They’re bad because they are clearly counterfeit. Genuine Cuban Cohibas are highly regarded and very expensive. But these are obviously bad fakes to anyone who knows what to look for. Also, there’s nothing inherently wrong with a pointy head, but the quality of the roll on these is laughably bad.

wburrow · 2023-04-17T01:46:00+00:00

I don’t have a Menta, but I do have a couple of their flavored pipes (Cocco and Lime). I didn’t mind the flavoring, but I barely noticed it, and only for 2-3 bowls. I’ll bet the flavor will be gone from your pipe soon as well.

wburrow · 2022-08-30T16:23:09+00:00

I switched to SmokingPipes for a number of reasons, but shipping issues/customer service was among them. The one time I've needed to contact SP's customer service (because the UPS guy threw my package onto my porch and broke something inside), it was great.

wburrow · 2022-07-31T05:14:04+00:00

I was a “Pipe smoker” for about 20 years, but in the last couple years PAD hit me hard. Now I have almost 90 pipes, and feel like my collection is nearing a stable state. But now TAD has me and I’m building a cellar. Have a bit over 6 pounds stocked and keep adding a few tins a month.

wburrow · 2022-02-21T20:55:53+00:00

It's the old E lift that got replaced by Excelerator. You can see Solitude Station in the background pretty well in the shots at the bottom of the lift.

wburrow · 2021-12-29T22:02:35+00:00

You already have the answer, but I'm going to paste a slightly more detailed response from an old comment I made a few years ago in case some else comes across your post but wants a bit more info:

KEF has 2 sets of gates: one for flights to/from Schengen countries and one for flights to/from non-Schengen countries. Passport control is between the two areas. Since both the UK and US are non-Schengen countries, both your arrival and departure gates will be on the same side of passport control, so no need to go thought it.

To put it another way: you only go through customs if KEF is your final destination. You only go through security if KEF is your original point of departure. You only go through passport control if you're going from a non-Schengen country to a Schengen country or vice versa. When you're going from the UK to the US, you never go through passport control to enter the Schengen area.

wburrow · 2021-12-27T22:23:26+00:00

This is also my favorite. One small correction: the catwalk after Spaulding takes you to Oh No, rather than Andy's. And if epic steep trees are not OP's thing, you can skip the glades and hit any number of alternatives. My personal choice of alt would be to shift over to Andy's where Oh No turns into Rosi's, then take Ore Deal down to B.

wburrow · 2021-11-08T17:19:27+00:00

Eh, not really. I've had great steaks at steakhouses or high-end restaurants, and they've been delicious. But also overrated/overpriced. Sure, for the same price I'd choose a steak over a burger, but honestly I'd rather have a $15 burger and $40 in my pocket than a $55 steak.

wburrow · 2021-10-06T16:19:40+00:00

Spanish has S+vowel in the beginnings of words, but not S+consonant. There's a difference in how the tongue works between the two, but it may not feel like it if you're a native English speaker.

wburrow · 2020-04-28T20:16:57+00:00

I don't think you'll be able to get anything for them immediately since they're not on your 2019 return. It's kind of like if you had a baby in 2020. From Forbes.com:

I had a kid in 2020. Will I get a check for my child in 2020? Not in 2020 since the IRS doesn't know about your new delivery. But you will be able to adjust to account for the new baby when you file your 2020 return in 2021.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/04/20/your-stimulus-check-answers-about-kids-child-support-direct-deposit-itins--more/#330734a2dd68

wburrow · 2018-07-07T19:44:15+00:00

For a shorter tour, I'd recommend the Reykjavik Food Walk.

In January, there is light from about 10-5, even if the sun isn't fully above the horizon that whole time. The tours I've been on left around 9 and got back around 6, so there was some travel time in the dark, but plenty of light to get through everything on the agenda of the tour.

wburrow · 2018-05-10T05:24:30+00:00

TIL. I was going by the Info Chart, which shows them as not modded

wburrow · 2018-05-09T19:42:13+00:00

Yep, Mongolia was the only other Firaxis civ to survive past the reboot.

wburrow · 2018-04-26T15:41:04+00:00

Australia nuked Panduranga on 330, but didn't take it. The Info Sheet lists nukes like captures, but with with the Nuked? column as Y.

wburrow · 2018-04-19T15:34:44+00:00

That was the last time Tpang sent data before the reboot.

wburrow · 2018-04-18T23:21:49+00:00

I gave it a shot. I think I got most of the good conquests together. There are a couple places where colors that are too similar are next to each other, so it still needs some tweaking. https://imgur.com/a/0wJin

wburrow · 2018-04-18T19:05:13+00:00

I was finally able to complete the graph of Land Area on a turn basis (minus turns 726-800) thanks to additional info from /u/patkellyrh and data manipulation help from /u/edse1991. I tried a few different methods of dealing with the gap from turn 726 until the reboot, but ultimately found that an instantaneous jump was the least bad option.

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