Today's xkcd cartoon has a chess theme: http://xkcd.com/1078/. Hover the mouse over the cartoon for some novel chess notation.
A search for 'chess' on that site will find a few more. This one is clever: http://xkcd.com/249/.
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Re: xkcd
More chess in xkcd: Think Logically. I like the hidden title text:
'I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.'
'I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.'
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Re: xkcd
That may be closer to the truth than he realises.Ian Kingston wrote:More chess in xkcd: Think Logically. I like the hidden title text:
'I've developed a more logical set of rules but the people on the chess community have a bunch of stupid emotional biases and won't reply to my posts.'
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Re: xkcd
I think I might detect a hint in there of oblique tribute (in his centenary year) to Alan Turing, who as many on here will know wrote perhaps the earliest chess-playing algorithm, but was famously a weak player himself.
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Re: xkcd
Resurrecting this ancient thread with the latest xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1800/
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