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Inertial Ignorance
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Ignorance is inertial, until you do something about it.

FIDE master in chess, with a national rating of approximately 2300. I'm also the author of a couple of opening books, and have been coaching for a number of years.

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Is it bad etiquette to decline a draw offer when participating in a simul?
Jan 23, 2019
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Why do people even play chess?
May 16, 2020
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How has chess managed to remain a competitive sport despite engine dominance?
Mar 30, 2021
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Is chess a zero sum game?
May 8, 2020
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Why doesn't Lichess' Stockfish suggest this bishop sacrifice?
Jun 2, 2020
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Is it rude to ask my opponent to resign an online game when they have a lost endgame?
Sep 2, 2019
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Is it possible that a radically different but equally effective playstyle exists?
May 6, 2020
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Moving into check for a draw as black, why is it illegal? Comparison to Racing Kings
Dec 18, 2019
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Do some chess players actively train moving the pieces on the board quickly?
Dec 31, 2019
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Should a chess engine be aware of opposite-side castling?
Aug 11, 2020
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Does Monte Carlo tree search qualify as machine learning?
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How does the center of gravity work?
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Is it bad practice to create blocks of code?
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Why does the base class need to have a virtual destructor here if the derived class allocates no raw dynamic memory?
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Removing Objects in Java ArrayList - Time Consumption

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