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[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Mario boutta throw some apples

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Network rail doesn't do the overcharging -- they're government owned and manage the track and signalling. Their 'customers' are the TOCs

[-] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Carpenter bees are mostly solitary.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

do you think the responder is serious. do you.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Me n who? 🥺

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

My therapist tells me to close down all but the part of the position where I have an advantage, so that I can build pressure before making my break.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Writing it out,

Bxd8 Bxf2

Ke2 (only move) Bg4#

Since the king is in check and the light squared bishop covers f3, the dark squared bishop covers e1 and e3, the knight covers d2 and f2, and the rest are blocked by white's pieces

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Not only that, but Bxd8 Bb4 allows c3 and white survives.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Please don't twist it D:

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

In the UK at least, 'you alright?', shortened to 'right?' is just used as a greeting. In the same way that 'how are you doing' got shortened to 'howdy'. It's just another form of greeting or pleasantry.

If you're actually interested how someone is, you'll ask without the contraction ('are you alright?'), and with a different intonation.

I think that's a fairly reasonable way of doing conversation; I don't have a problem with it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna go for about 1600-1800 lichess, just because Nh5 from black feels a bit of a nothing move, and while 15. Rad1 for white gives a discovered attack with the pawn recapture, it gives an isolated pawn and the queen can just move.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

What time control was this? Important factor in decision making. Also, don't suppose you could post the PGN -- I hate not being able to flick back and forward

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GM Matthew Sadler (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

For those of you that haven't come across him, GM Sadler is active on mastodon (@[email protected]), and posts some really exciting and interesting content on his YouTube channel (https://m.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos).

I'd summarise his videos as using a variety of engines to produce unique, engine approved yet human comprehensible attacking ideas, often in opening/middle games, but he's also analysed some famous human endgames with these engines. While they're not necessarily good videos for beginners, I think anyone over ~1200 OTB will get a lot out of his videos.

If you want a good example video to see if it's for you, his/Dragon's Qd2 idea in the Pirc is a great example (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFfJwBgMD8), though I'd encourage you to flick through and find a video on an opening that you play.

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Ruley Tunes.mp3 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The main chess community on .world has fuck all subs and I'm not asking reddit, so I'll brick my pipi, shit my pampers, and ask it here instead. Club has a (very friendly) blitz night coming up, and I'd like to scrape some points against the top player (who's about 2150 FIDE), who plays the czech benoni. To give context I'm about 1900, so much worse but in with a shot if I put something fun together. Any ideas for some neat lines to look at?

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Recommendations thread (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I like some fairly niche genres, which then makes it difficult to find new music in that genre. Thought it might be worth having a thread where people can post artists they enjoy, but where they're struggling to find similar music, to let the hive mind provide them with ideas!

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