#Chess

Okay, okay: AUTISTIC people this time.Is it fairly obvious to you Beth Harmon is autistic? Why or why not? To me it's a lot of movement and vocal pattern things.
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Chess variants I made up because I can’t sleep: a thread.HOPPY CHESS: knights now move like pawns. Pawns now move like knights. SUICIDE KINGS: the goal is still to checkmate
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1/ Not many, but a few. The big question is whether anyone has a use case for blockchain that couldn’t be solved at least as well, if not better, with
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During my lesson tonight with @fins0905, I opened up about the ways in which chess has changed my life. John thought the story would make for an interesting twitter thread,
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Going to take on a 2021 project inspired by people posting various albums regularly. Don't know how long I'll make it, but the plan is to post & (briefly) discuss
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We won! #gohabsgo ! Now, a story: when I was in high school I taught myself how to play chess because I was babysitting, child was in bed, nothing on
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When you show a religious evolution denier a fossil that fills a gap in the fossil record, he says "Well now there are two gaps!"When you show a woke evolution
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#BidenErasedWomen is trending because of "trans women in sports" again.I refuse to engage with transphobic nonsense, but I want to take this as a teaching opportunity.One legitimate-sounding question is: why
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My @Slate piece on the origins of the gender gap in top-level chess. Many male chess players believe that women are inherently bad at chess, without any true evidence. Arguments
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THREAD The Queen's Gambit. A brilliant and uncomfortable watch for any number of reasons. Firstly when I was 11, I was a top junior chess player. I will always rue
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If #TheQueensGambit was MS DOS chess game in 80s. These are the artwork, in composite monitor- with color & monochrome mode | #pixelart @netflix The opponent in color mode. The
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“King? Queen? WTF? too much politics. I just want to play a game!!!”https://twitter.com/keladinus1/status/1340184341662621697 chess 2, when?????ALSO...pls stop being lazy and reusing the pawn model so many times!!!! checkers was better.
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The only way #atheism #scientism could explain this is by coincidence.If you would believe this is true, it is likely that you will believe almost anything to avoid the threat
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The 3 best analogies:1) Poker gives you a real education about loss aversion bias. You see that in the short term, outcome and process aren't necessarily correlated but in the
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Am thinking of Queen's Gambit, Ep 5 where Harry Beltik offers to help Beth Harmon with chess. He admits freely he is not as good as she is, yet still
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What an interesting chess match going on in the senate right now over the proposed hike in emergency COVID payments to hard-strapped Americans, with @realDonaldTrump & Dems for the additional
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