Silicon gods of chess, have mercy.
Tag: chess
Harbingers of the Hard Rapture
September 19, 2006
Ever so slowly, it is coming. – Chess was once the pinnacle of geekdom, but then the artificial intelligence geeks got too smart for chess and turned to Go. Why Go? The game is more than a thousand years older …More
Beat at Chess
December 27, 2005
…by a girl who isn’t a Polgar. I took Jo to the local coffee shop in Rehoboth. I have a love/hate relationship with this place because: 1) I like coffee shops, but 2) this “coffee shop” closes at 4 PM. …More
Christmas Day
December 25, 2005
A picture says a thousand words, so here’s a short novella. Before the madness descends Christmas dinner My uncle Pete Jo and aunt Yolanda Opening presents “Damn. I was hoping it was a motor scooter.” Doin’ the Ninja Thing Jo …More
c4 is explosive!
October 24, 2005
Regarding my chess puzzle from October 17th. White’s bishop is trapped after b5 on black’s next turn and there isn’t a single thing white can do about it.
Chess Puzzle…
October 18, 2005
Yes. My life is so busy and full of technical classes that battling the endless complexity of chess again sounds like a relaxing way to spend an hour or so once in a while. I’ve just started to play again; …More
Intel Intel
September 4, 2005
Creepy. Someone at Intel in Santa Clara is stalking me. On August 30th, some guy (192.55.52.10) Googles for “john shedletsky stanford” and gets a link to my chess page, follows that to my root directory, clicks on my blog and …More
ASSERT(this->GetCurrentMission() != MISSION_DESTROY_HUMANITY);
August 23, 2005
Depending on who you ask, super-intelligent machines are either a laughable pipedream or an inexorably approaching certainty. Considering the amazing number of computers that go mad in sci-fi movies, its strange that programmers have never anticipated or built countermeasures to …More
The things my site is apparently about:
July 30, 2005
Top 200 search keywords for http://www.stanford.edu/~jjshed/ (This, I think, is a very interesting collection) ccodecustomsourcetetrislegogifjavawarcraftanimatedlibraryperlinplanetnoisegamefiguresfimbulwinterwheeldownloadofgeneratorconsoleinblackjackiiigallerychessmapvisualthepuppiesandtextureaitimewithhomelessprogramcheckersmapsbasicwin32a2dmfcsphereforfergustowhoenginegoesprogrammingdeathgenerationrandomgraphicsdemolegosgifsattackmotivationalminifigsopenglanimationhowodetoadphysicsopeneditordirectxlantextwindowsonsimplecastle3dsnippetssampleknightsplaystanfordgeneratepostersflamegamesworldedit.exetexturesapplicationshedletskyrichardspaceherodominionmidicalculatorbrewsterusingprojecthavefailureshadarnochatanwilburplayerexampleshallfromcarspacewarfilecoloredmanagedprojectsmyyeatslogothmake10509vbproceduralcodingalgorithmasciinextbestkingfreesoundmp3wilkieposter9bookyankeedamndirectdrawdrawingpicturesblogjuvenalessayworldeditorsweatshirtti-89downloadsalternitytoddzobristpgncrusaders36.0worldplayingdynamicsficsopeningeditorsnarrativeladtutorialshootingwavgeneratingraceishashsatireshorribleservervectorsellerssmallclientmaxwhatmenoptimizedprogramshandmeanelephantgreatgraphingflagilyenadrawheroespicsdodungeonhelendoessammaelspaceship
Chess Puzzle #3
July 25, 2005
White Mates in 3 Been a while since I’ve posted a chess puzzle. So here’s a tricky one I ran across the other day.
