Oddbean new post about login | logout this quote reminds me of chess and is one of the reasons chess is such a beautiful game. in chess, when you move a piece, you’re attacking new squares but also losing influence over the squares you were attacking before. you see? chess is the art of seeing yourself forward. the calculation muscle that’s constantly evaluating the gain and loss to every move. in life we’re constantly doing this by the way. taking risk, all day every day. more than you think. you need to go to a higher up floor. do you want to take the elevator or the stairs? the stairs are probably safer but you lose time and energy. the elevator is easier but is a man made machine with potential dangerous risks. ok well are we going to floor 2 or floor 100? am i healthy or do i have health issues? you evaluate; you choose. there are no moves in both chess and life with only gain and no loss. for this reason, both chess and life are nothing you can master or finish. it’s an art you develop as the artist https://m.primal.net/IDum.jpg
You ever play risk?
From The Full Metal Alchemist. Almost the same theme. The Law of Equivalent Exchange. https://i.nostr.build/8GrKg.jpg
You a e4 or d4 kinda guy?
e4 or nf3
man I wish Henreik Danielson's channel on youtube hadn't been deleted. He was 1. f4 pilling the world.
Though admittedly he was usually more cautious in his tourney games and mainly used f4 in blitz.
Haha right.. open f4 , opponent burns half their time Win
Well it is like a reverse Dutch with an extra move. He wrote a book on it and called it "The Polar Bear Opening" He maintained that there's a psyop against 1. f4 lol.
"Decidir" (Spanish for "to chose") comes from latin "decidere", and means "to cut". Deciding has to consider cost of opportunity. https://image.nostr.build/399be296bdcbc94ba4fbc84bf9a2c22c41b346b0752fac89001d4ae60314c07d.jpg
I'd love to play some chess with you!
go >>> chess 😉 https://m.primal.net/IDvE.png
I disagree, you don’t lose what the adversaries can’t get. So, if the Square you move from can’t be used by the counterpart, it’s part of your board and not lost. When your adversaries can’t move, you win even if they usually don’t admit it straight away either in life or in a chess game.
que onda guero?
I'm around 2000 on Lichess. This post had me thinking for a second. I played a game to test the idea. Truth is, I'm always just trying to improve my position. Fix problems, exploit opponents problems, increase posibilites, etc. I rarely think about what was lost from the previous position, unless I blunder or something, in which case its just a 'what was I thinking' kind of thing.
congrats on 2000 on lichees thats pretty awesome. that said: actual good title players use squares weakened by the last move as a heuristic to help find candidate moves quite often.
What's your rapid ELO?
