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My favorite theme was Japanese terms from the game Go (wei-qi). Joseki, fuseki, sente. It was educational as well as distinctive. The spellings are also easier than my other theme of Polish delicacies.

Thanks for the heads up - I contacted Avast and asked to be removed from their blacklist. I'm not a customer of Avast, but it may help if you submit a false positive report to them (based on what I read in some forum posts):

https://www.avast.com/false-positive-file-form.php

Cheers!

Thank you! I was inspired by something I read about the early history of chess:

"In order to save time, and to prevent useless exchanges, it was agreed that the first player should make his (let us say) fifteen moves all at once, without, however, crossing the middle line of the board; after which the adversary was entitled to play up at once an equal number of counter moves... these preliminary maneuvers the Arabs called Ta'biyat, which signifies 'the drawing up of troops in battle array'."

(quoted from Duncan Forbes "Observations on the Origin and Progress of Chess", 1855 - I first came across the variant in Edward Lasker's "The Adventure of Chess".)

I whipped up a little demo illustrating Carlsen's decisive rapid game 3. It transposes the move sequence to show white's 13-move opening (Karjakin) followed by Carlsen's 13-move response as black, and so on through the game - using the longest possible sequences consistent with legal positions from the original game.

http://transpose.fantasychess.co.uk/

Fixed link: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

I like the no-frills approach and the embrace of functional reactive.

tl;dr Individual Computers launches a new plastic case to house either an original C64 mainboard, or the "C64 Reloaded" board released by hardware designer Jens Schönfeld last year.

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/C64_reloaded

Sadly the C64R is currently out of stock.

https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/shop/product/c64-reloaded.htm...

If you like the idea of working on this kind of research project, you might check out a local Baseball Hack Day (held annually at the beginning of the season in March or April).

http://www.baseballhackday.com/

I keep thinking it'd be nice to do one the weekend before the World Series as well.