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omegaham
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
nethack.alt.org still maintains a telnet server!
omegaham
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
See also Uiua, a newcomer to the "extremely cool but completely incomprehensible language" family!
omegaham
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
A more obvious setup to the joke is

"Is there a doctor on this plane???"

"Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative literature..."
omegaham
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Since even a phone has enough processing power to make Stockfish play better than a super-GM, the Faraday cage isn't enough to prevent, say, someone tapping the position into a computer on their person and feeling for some sort of vibration[1] in response. It takes very little information to represent a position, and commentators have pointed out that the minimum amount of information required to produce a decisive advantage is 1 bit ("A winning move exists").

[1] Yes, the ribald jokes have already been made
omegaham
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
The adjournments in The Queen's Gambit were rendered obsolete after chess engines became strong enough to be useful in analysis. The last year that they were permitted was 1996.

Match play at the World Championship (where the two players play each other repeatedly for many games) involves a ton of inter-game coaching and work as each player's team goes over what went well, what went wrong, and how the next game should be approached.

Round robin play in small fields also has a significant amount of preparation because the schedule is known in advance, so players will know whom they have to play the following morning and will prepare accordingly.

I'm not comfortable saying that Hikaru does exactly 0 preparation for 3-minute Chess.com blitz games, but it's probably pretty close to 0.
omegaham
·vor 11 Jahren·discuss
Also known as the "euphemism treadmill."

The next phase has already begun - "You were one of the special children, weren't you" is a pretty common start to an ass-chewing in the military. They'll have to move on pretty soon.