Good chess, good science and politics! One’s gotta go!
by
John Bain
“Ouroboros is an ancient mythological serpent. Hungry to make itself stronger, Ouroboros consumes its tail and ends up consuming itself.” -Dan Dalthrop, author of “…The Dreadful Rise of Advocacy Science – The Anatomy of a Travesty.“
Ouroboros!
What can happen if politics & emotion enter chess?!
Dan Dalthrop
“…The Dreadful Rise of Advocacy Science – The Anatomy of a Travesty,” by Dan Dalthrop, January 30, 2024.
Also a strong chess player, Dan Dalthrop is an ecologist & statistician standing athwart the epistemic collapse of Science & the Enlightenment, saying “Whoa, Nellie!”
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The Komodo Dragon Chess Engine!
Through the science of computer coding and programming, today’s chess engines dominate and crush any and all human opponents.
Chess engines are so powerful that they have become somewhat irrelevant in that they “see” winning moves so far ahead in a chess game that no human can calculate or comprehend the variation.
However, to date, chess engines have not “solved” the game of chess.
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Beginners & Intermediate Book – Checkmate! Ideas For Students
“Knight Checkmates King!”
Checkmate! Ideas For Students is a workbook for beginning and intermediate students. Checkmate! covers the tactics used in checkmate attacks with clear explanations, diagrams and arrows to pinpoint the key features.
Unlike many other basic checkmate books, Checkmate! categorizes the checkmates by the tactics used to force the checkmate–like Pins, Sacrifices, Removing the Guard, Attraction, Clearance and Attacking Flight Squares–rather than only the checkmate pattern itself.
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Chess Tactics For Students contains 434 carefully selected problems in worksheet format.
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The worksheet format and Answer Key enable self-correction with minimal dependence or direct help from a chess teacher, coach, or parent.
