Fillipoman

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I listen to my podcasts via the Pocket Casts app on Android (audio only).

Just listened to this last night and I second this! It was fascinating hearing all of the different perspectives and design decisions. I've rarely heard a podcast done so well with so many guests so kudos on a great job hosting it Abner. (You may have seen me around the discord, I'm PH Test)

I second Resolve being excellent. I still run into crashes now and then and have had pains getting some OFX plugins to not fail-- mainly the deflicker one which causes the memory usage to skyrocket and cap out during rendering.

Exactly. In my opinion, chess at its core is all about presenting challenging puzzles to your opponent and solving the puzzles put to you by your opponent. An engine may show that one side is way ahead but it could all depend on finding one series of precise moves and therefore not be much of an advantage at all for a human under the pressure of the clock.

There's a lot of interesting data in the article, but some of the visualizations remind me of this: https://xkcd.com/1138/.

And with c++11 you can use a lambda capture to make it even cleaner (I'm not sure if this is the right syntax)

[&fancyNumber] { // [Mathy stuff redacted] fancyNumber = someIntermediateVariable / anotherIntermediateVariable; }();

I wish the book was already done! Not many secti9ns have been finished since I've last visited a year ago. :(

What do you not like about different thumb controls? It seems odd to me that the thumb is really only useful for hitting the space bar on standard keyboards.

This talk covers the concept of doing "deep work" very well in my opinion

I love the channel for the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. It has numerous lectures targeted for beginner, intermediate, and expert players that cover a wide range of topics while analyzing games. The lectures are given by various GMs and IMs. Check out Ben Finegold's lectures, He is a great teacher and never fails to crack me up.

https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub