Chess is a very [old](old.md) two-player board [game](game.md), perhaps most famous and popular among all board games in [history](history.md). It is a [complete information](complete_information.md) game that simulates a battle of two armies on an 8x8 board with different battle pieces. Chess is also called the King's Game, it has a world-wide competitive community and is considered an intellectual [sport](sport.md) but it's also been a topic of research (as the estimated number of chess games is bigger than [googol](googol.md), it is unlikely to ever be solved) and [programming](programming.md) (many chess engines, [AI](ai.md)s and frontends are being actively developed). Chess is similar to games such [shogi](shogi.md) ("Japanese chess"), [xiangqi](xiangqi.md) ("Chinese chess") and [checkers](checkers.md).
Chess is a very [old](old.md) two-player board [game](game.md), perhaps most famous and popular among all board games in [history](history.md). It is a [complete information](complete_information.md) game that simulates a battle of two armies on an 8x8 board with different battle pieces (also called *chessmen*). Chess is also called the King's Game, it has a world-wide competitive community and is considered an intellectual [sport](sport.md) but it's also been a topic of research (as the estimated number of chess games is bigger than [googol](googol.md), it is unlikely to ever be solved) and [programming](programming.md) (many chess engines, [AI](ai.md)s and frontends are being actively developed). Chess is similar to games such [shogi](shogi.md) ("Japanese chess"), [xiangqi](xiangqi.md) ("Chinese chess") and [checkers](checkers.md).
Note on terminology: the term *piece* is sometimes used to exclude pawns or in other ways, in this article we will for simplicity call any chessman, including a pawn, a piece.
{ There is a nice black and white indie movie called *Computer Chess* about chess programmers of the 1980s, it's pretty good, very oldschool, starring real programmers and chess players, check it out. ~drummyfish }
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Threefold repetition is a rule allowing a player to claim a draw if the same position (piece positions, player's turn, castling rights, en passant state) occurs three times (not necessarily consecutively). The 50 move rule allows a player to claim a draw if no pawn has moved and no piece has been captured in last 50 moves (both players making their move counts as a single move here).
## Playing Tips
Some general tips and rules of thumb, mostly for beginners:
- Try to control the center of the board (D4, D5, E4, E5).
- Don't bring the queen out too early, the opponent can harass it and get ahead in development.
- Learn some universal setup openings or "systems" to play, e.g. London, King's Indian, the hippo etc.
- Develop your pieces before attacking, usually knights go out before bishops, bishops are well placed on the longest diagonals as "snipers".
- Learn basic tactics, especially forks and pins.
- King safety is extremely important until endgame, castle very early but not extremely early. In the endgame (with queens out) king joins the battle as another active piece.
- Pawn structure is very important.
- Watch out for back rank checkmates, make an escape square for your king.
- Rooks want to be on open files, you also want to CONNECT them (have both guard each other). Also a rook in the opponents second row (2nd/7th rank) is pretty good.
- Bishops are generally seen a bit more valuable than knights, especially in pairs -- if you can trade your knight for opponent's bishop, it's often good. If your opponent has two bishops and you only have one, you want to trade yours for his so he doesn't have the pair. A knight pair is also pretty powerful though, especially when the knights are guarding each other.
- "Knight on a rim is dim" (knights are best placed near the center).
- An extremely strong formation is both rooks and the queen on the same open file.
- Blocking the opponents piece so that it can't move is almost as good as taking it. And vice versa: you want to activate all your pieces if possible.
- Don't play "hope chess", always suppose your opponent will play the best move he can.
- If you can achieve something with multiple pieces, usually it's best to do it with the weakest one.
- TODO: moar
## LRS Chess
Chess is only mildly [bloated](bloat.md) but what if we try to unbloat it completely? Here we propose the LRS version of chess. The rule changes against normal chess are:
Well, Earth is the [planet](planet.md) we live on. It is the third planet from the [Sun](sun.md) of our Solar system which itself is part of the [Milky Way](milky_way.md) [galaxy](galaxy.md). So far it is the only known place to have [life](life.md).
Well, Earth is the [planet](planet.md) we live on. It is the third planet from the [Sun](sun.md) of our Solar system which itself is part of the [Milky Way](milky_way.md) [galaxy](galaxy.md), [Universe](universe.md). So far it is the only known place to have [life](life.md).
Now behold the grand rendering of the Earth map in [ASCII](ascii_art.md) ([equirectangular](equirectangular.md) projection):
| Britannica 11th edition | 1910 | PD (old) | 29 vol. | 40K | legendary enc., part of "Big Three", digitized (gutenberg, txt), uncensored facts on race etc. |
| Britannica Concise Encyclopedia| 2002 | proprietary | 1 vol. 2000p| 28K | quality, condensed from the main multivol. Brit., older (less censorship), piratable as pdf |
| Britannica online |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, ads |
| Britannica online |...now | proprietary | online | 130K | bloated, high quality articles, unpaid is limited and with ads |
| [Citizendium](citizendium.md) |2006...|proprietary? (NC) | online | 18K | Wikipedia alternative, censored, faggots have unclear license |
| Collier's New Encyclopedia | 1921 | PD (old) | 10 vol. | | NOT TO BE CONFUSED with Collier's Encyclopedia (different one), digitized on Wikisource (txt) |
|[Conservaedia](conservapedia.md)|2006...| proprietary | online | 52K | American fascist wiki, has basic factual errors |
Nigger (also nigga, niBBa, N-word, negro, negroid or chimp) is a forbidden word that refers to a member of the [black](black.md) [race](race.md), [SJWs](sjw.md) call it a [politically incorrect](political_correctness.md) "slur". Its counterpart targeted on white people is *[cracker](cracker.md)*. To Harry Potter fans the word may be compared to the word Voldemort which everyone is just afraid to say.
Nigger (also nigga, niBBa, N-word or chimp) is a [forbidden word](newspeak.md) that refers to a member of the [black](black.md) [race](race.md), [SJWs](sjw.md) call the word a [politically incorrect](political_correctness.md) "slur". Its counterpart targeted on white people is *[cracker](cracker.md)*. To Harry Potter fans the word may be compared to the word *Voldemort* which everyone is afraid to say out of fear of being [cancelled](cancel_culture.md). Nigger is not to be confused with [negro](negro.md) (which is a human [race](race.md) of only SOME black people, specifically those in central Africa).
Let us remind new readers that we, [LRS](lrs.md), love all living beings, even black people <3Butwedonotsupport [political correctness](political_correctness.md).
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- **[ASCII art](ascii_art.md)** vs **[ANSI art](ansi_art.md)** vs **[Unicode](unicode.md) art**
- **[assembler](assembler.md)** vs **[assembly](assembly.md)** vs **[machine code](machine_code.md)**
- **binary** vs **[executable](executable.md)**
- **[black](black.md) [race](race.md)** vs **[nigger](nigger.md)** vs **[negro](negro.md)**
- **[bug](bug.md)** vs **[error](error.md)** vs **[exception](exception.md)** vs **[fault](fault.md)** vs **[failure](fail.md)** vs **[defect](defect.md)**
- **[causation](causation.md)** vs **[correlation](correlation.md)**
- **[cepstrum](cepstrum.md)** vs **[spectrum](spectrum.md)**
@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Here is a list of people notable in technology or otherwise (and drummyfish :]).
- **[Jesus](jesus.md)**: prolly the most famous guy in history, had a nice teaching of [nonviolence](nonviolence.md) and [love](love.md)
- **[Jimmy Wales](jimmy_wales.md)**: co-founder of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)
- **[John Carmack](john_carmack.md)**: legendary game ([Doom](doom.md), [Quake](quake.md), ...) and [graphics](graphics.md) developer, often called a programming god
- **[John Romero](romero.md)**: legendary oldschool game dev, co-creator of [Doom](doom.md)
- **[Ken Thompson](ken_thompson.md)**: co-creator of [Unix](unix.md), [C](c.md) and [Go](go.md)
- **[Larry Sanger](larry_sanger.md)**: co-founder of [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md), also one of its biggest critics
- **[Larry Wall](larry_wall.md)**: creator of [Perl](perl.md) language, linguist
Systemd, also shitstemd, is a horribly disastrous [bloated](bloat.md), [anti-Unix](unix_philosophy.md), "[FOSS](foss.md)" "software suite" used for initialization of an [operating system](os.md) and handling services like loggging in or managing network connections. It is a so called [PID 1](pid1.md) process, or an [init system](init_system.md). Systemd has been highly criticised by the proponents of [suckless](suckless.md) and [LRS](lrs.md) and even normies for its enormous amount of bloat, ugliness, anti-Unix-philosophy design, [feature creep](feature_creep.md), security vulnerabilities and other stuff. Unfortunately it is being adopted by many [GNU](gnu.md)/[Linux](linux.md) distributions including [Arch Linux](arch.md) and [Debian](debian.md). Some distros such as [Devuan](devuan.md) just said no to this shit and forked to a non-systemd version.
Systemd, also shitstemd, is a horribly disastrous [bloated](bloat.md), [anti-Unix](unix_philosophy.md), "[FOSS](foss.md)" "software suite" used for initialization of an [operating system](os.md) and handling services like logging in or managing network connections. It is a so called [PID 1](pid1.md) process, or an [init system](init_system.md). Systemd has been highly criticised by the proponents of [suckless](suckless.md) and [LRS](lrs.md) and even normies for its enormous amount of bloat, ugliness, anti-Unix-philosophy design, [feature creep](feature_creep.md), security vulnerabilities and other stuff. Unfortunately it is being adopted by many [GNU](gnu.md)/[Linux](linux.md) distributions including [Arch Linux](arch.md) and [Debian](debian.md). Some distros such as [Devuan](devuan.md) just said no to this shit and forked to a non-systemd version.
Systemd was born when Harry Pot... ummm [Lennart Poettering](pottering.md) had an unprotected [gay](gay.md) sex with [Kay Sievers](sievers.md).
*"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity"* --Terry Davis
*"An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity."* --Terry Davis
Terry A. Davis, aka the *divine intellect*, born 1969 in Wisconsin, was a genius+[schizophrenic](schizo.md) [programmer](programming.md) that singlehandedly created [TempleOS](temple_os.md) in his own [programming language](programming_language.md) called [HolyC](holyc.md), and greatly entertained and enlightened an audience of followers until his tragic untimely death. For his programming skills and quality videos he became a legend and a [meme](meme.md) in the tech circles, especially on [4chan](4chan.org) which additionally valued his [autistic](autism.md) and [politically incorrect](political_correctness.md) behavior.
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## Men Vs Women In Numbers
Here is a comparison of men and women in some randomly chosen disciplines and measures that are easy to quantify by numbers, and still possible to find on the highly censored Internet. Of course, the numbers hold for the time of writing of this text, at the time or reading they may be slightly outdated, also keep in mind that in the future such comparisons may become much less objective due to [SJW](sjw.md) forces -- e.g. because of [trans](tranny.md) athletes in sports we may see diminishing differences between measurements of performance of men and "women" because what in the future will be called women will be just men pretending to be women.
Note: It is guaranteed that [soyentific](soyence.md) BIGBRAINS will start screeching "MISLEADING STATISTICSSSSSSS NON PEER REVIEWED". Three things: firstly chill your balls, this isn't a scientific paper, just a fun comparison of some numbers. Secondly we try to be benevolent and not choose stats in a biased way (we don't even have to) but it is not easy to find better statistics, e.g. one might argue it could be better to compare averages or medians rather than bests -- indeed, but it's impossible to find average performance of all women in a population in a specific sport discipline, taking the best performer is simply easier and still gives some idea. So we simply include what we have. Thirdly any statistics is a simplification and can be seen as misleading by those who dislike it.
On average, male brain weights 10% more than woman's and has 16% more brain cells. [IQ](iq.md)/intelligence measured by various tests has been consistently significantly lower than that of men.
Here is a comparison of men and women in numbers that are still possible to be found in already highly censored sources. Of course, the numbers aren't necessarily absolutely up to date, at the time or reading they may be slightly outdated, also keep in mind that in the future such comparisons may become much less objective due to [SJW](sjw.md) forces -- e.g. because of [trans](tranny.md) athletes in sports we may see diminishing differences between measurements of performance of men and "women" because what in the future will be called women will be just men pretending to be women.
Note: It is guaranteed that [soyentific](soyence.md) BIGBRAINS will start screeching "MISLEADING STATISTICSSSSSSS NON PEER REVIEWED". Three things: firstly chill your balls, this isn't a scientific paper, just a fun comparison of some numbers. Secondly fuck you, we don't fancy peer censorship. Thirdly we try to be benevolent and not choose stats in a biased way (we don't even have to) but it is not easy to find better statistics, e.g. one might argue it could be better to compare averages or medians rather than bests -- indeed, but it's impossible to find average performance of all women in a population in a specific sport discipline, taking the best performer is simply easier and still gives some idea. So we simply include what we have. Thirdly any statistics is a simplification and can be seen as misleading by those who dislike it.
**Male brains have more brain cells and weight more than those of women**: on average, male brain weights 10% more than woman's and has 16% more brain cells. The Guinness book of 1987 states the average male brain weight being 1424 grams and that of a female being 1242 grams; the averages both grow with time quite quickly so nowadays the numbers will be higher in both sexes, though the average of men grows faster. The heaviest recorded brain belonged to a man (2049 grams), while the lightest belonged to a woman (1096 grams). Heaviest woman brain weighted 1565 grams, only a little more than men's average. [IQ](iq.md)/intelligence measured by various tests has been consistently significantly lower for women than for men.
