chess
Irregular Chess
/notes/irregular-chess/I’ve been patting myself on the back for making my life easier by choosing chess data as a domain to write programs against. Chess produces tons of well-structured, predictable, meaningful …
Chess Drills A La De La Maza
/notes/chess-drills/Concentric Squares (forks and skewers):
- Place black king on d5 and black rook on d4, then sequentially place white queen on every square where it forks or skewers the rook and king
- Move rook in …
Working on my chess skills
/notes/working-on-my-chess-skills/Philidor’s position for queen vs rook.
Elephant Gambit
/notes/elephant-gambit/Yesterday a friend was demonstrating how to mess with your opponent,
so after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3
he played 2...d5
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I’ve definitely seen the position before and probably even figured out the correct …