A Derived Position

A place for thoughts on chess and life in general. I plan on basing my posts around the theme of things I have learned. The source may not be chess-related, but at some point each post will tie into chess at large or a specific game.

 

Chess Funnies

Submitted by Velocity on Wed May 27, 2009 9:28am.

I saw these on xkcd, a popular webcomic. http://xkcd.com/249/   ...and http://xkcd.com/232/ Read more »

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One Thing I've Learned

Submitted by Velocity on Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:39pm.

One thing I've learned in my years of playing chess is that in an OTB setting, you can never truly know what your opponent is going to do. The human mind just doesn't allow for telepathy, you know? Sure, it's possible to consider every conceivable... Read more »

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Cool trap

Submitted by Velocity on Thu Oct 9, 2008 7:03am.

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