I did not know that.

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She protec
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She a maniaaaaaaac

I made a small necessary edit.

I forgot to mention the most helpful advice - the board at the link is interactive.

Naroditsky is streaming right now - https://www.chess.com/member/danielnaroditsky

There’s a 15s ad in the intro and then it’s ad-free. If he’s doing well and he’s in a good mood - he’ll keep going. He might stream another ~4+ hours or it might be over soon. I have no idea.

Back in the late 1980s I was living with my dad and he wanted me to do some digging for him. He kept asking me and I kept putting it off. The fourth time he asked me I realized I really had to do it. So I got the shovel, work gloves, and I got his boom box to keep me company. Swordfishtrombones isn’t exactly work songs but I still played it over and over. It did make the digging easier. I had never heard anything like it.

Seriously though - I sometimes wonder what kids are listening to. I never spend any time around them and I’m not interested (much) in recent music so I have no idea at all.

It’s nice when Youtube surprises you in a way that isn’t vile or nasty but contemplative.

The message to this song is one to take to heart. Too many people seem to neglect giving due consideration to their choices. Eventually we will all be held accountable for our actions, and the life we live will be a product of the choices we make. It is not possible to bribe our way out of those consequences, only delay them. Eventually we all end up at the gallows, and the hang man will not be swayed. Remember this, and live your life accordingly. Consider your actions and what the potential consequences can be, and do not make choices unless you are prepared to face those consequences.

I shut my eyes and I’m transported back 50 years and I’m 17 again for a precious few minutes.

The math is different for me but the feeling’s the same.

From another article

Meanwhile, Evergreen Terrace are organizing their own show in Orlando, telling fans, “Orlando. We will be seeing you soon. We are currently organizing a show with the bands that dropped off of the Shell Shock fest after being blindsided. All of Evergreen’s proceeds will go to an associated veterans organization. Updates soon. We play shows, not rallies.”

can’t the pawn just kill the knight to avoid the king having to move back/forth?

No. It’s double check and double check is (very) nasty.

Absolute perfect pitch and could play any song off the radio hearing it just once.

I wish I could do that. I’ll just say - I have the ability to play an very easy song very badly after I get the chords off the net and I practice it a lot.

My mom was massively into Zepplin and could play every one of their songs to perfection.

She played guitar?

“This isn’t Led Zepplin, Led Zepplin is badass. Led Zepplin did In My Time of Dying.”

I wonder what today’s equivalent of that is.

I was in middle school when the album came out and it didn’t like it much because - as young people do - thought of them as my band. And what was my band doing with an album that didn’t sound like them. The only thing seemingly in common was Plant’s voice. But as time went on - I liked it more and more. It’s a shame Bonham died and the band ended. I wish they had put out a few more albums. Hell - even one more.

The eval bar is key. +1 for your opponent isn’t awful. Like I said in the body - black is a gm so it’s 100% playable at that level. For me - I also wouldn’t resign at Kc7 but I’d certainly be having no fun. I like my king ensconced in a corner behind pawns until the end game. Defense is a real weak point for me.

This soliloquy is from the tv series Black Sails. Captain Flint tells his lover how he got his name. He’s ambivalent about being a pirate. I’m in the middle of watching the series. It’s my favorite scene so far.

“I told you of my grandfather who raised me. A fisherman in Padstow. Well, in his youth he was a deckhand on a privateer off the coast of Massachusetts. And one night he was alone on the late watch at anchor in the Boston Harbor when he sees this man climbing out of the water and onto his ship. A stranger. Now, my grandfather thought about ringing the bell, but curiosity got the better of him. The stranger approaches my grandfather and asks him for a little rum.”

“Man said that he’d fled his fishing trawler. Accused of killing another man. And when asked his name, the man simply replied Mr. Flint. This stranger, he never said whether he was guilty of the killing or why he chose that ship or where he was bound, he just… just sat there. Eventually, he asked my grandfather for a little more rum from below. My grandfather went off to fetch it, but when he returned… the man was gone.”

“My grandfather was in Boston for a month after that. Never heard a word about a killing or a fugitive at large. It was as if the sea had conjured that man out of nothing and then taken him back for some unknowable purpose. When I first met Mr. Gates and he asked me my name… I feared the man I was about to create. I feared that someone born of such dark things would consume me were I not careful. And I was determined only to wear him for a while and then dispose of him when his purpose was complete. And I thought of that story.”

“Am I ready to let him go?” (Sighs) “Truth is… every day I’ve worn that name I’ve hated him a little more. I’ve been ready to return him to the sea for a long time.”

The image in the body should match the link.

https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/98668537943?tab=analysis&move=59

That’s my favorite smothered mate of all time. It’s by Hikaru Nakamura. I watched the game live and before he played it - I had no idea he had checkmate. What a truly fantastic sequence. But for him it was something from just another day at the office. And he was on to the next game.

He’s one of my favorite jazz musicians.