Musings on chess, and lesser things
My odds match with the chess engine Komodo is over, finishing in a 5-1 victory to me. It was a fun and very interesting match, which also generated a surprising amount of interest from the online chess community (whose numbers have swelled in recent weeks for obvious reasons). The viewing experience was heightened enormously by the two …
A quick update on the details for the match: I’ve managed to convince two great guys to stream commentary of the match. They are Evgenij Miroshnichenko, who you may already know as arguably the world’s best chess commentator, and Andras Toth, a Hungarian IM living in Australia. They are doing this for free, which is …
It’s a new year, a new decade. And my main resolution is to make more free time. I know that sounds quite ambiguous. “Make” free time? With what ingredients? Does that mean there’s an infinite potential? How much time does one have to spend to make time? The economist in me wants to bring up …
Do you remember in school or during further studies, the dilemma of deciding which edition of a textbook to buy? As a poor student, I always found it scandalous that the most recent edition carried a hefty price tag that, as far as I could tell, only represented a new cover and a couple of …