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It's good to know I'm not alone in having the same feelings. Wayne may be among the last of a dying breed. He obviously loved the world of elite chess...

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Yes, it is rare to get a sliding piece to the 8th rank until the endgame, but there's 2 things about that:
(1) tactics can arise when capturing...

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Fascinating. I just recently programmed a variant something like what Erik describes, in that the sliding pieces (Queen, Rook, Bishop) can have their...

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Sid, is there any company in Canada that sells that Virex product? I notice on the "delivery information' page of the site you linked to, it says...

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A great idea for a follow-up to The Queens Gambit!!!!...

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Wow, Patrick, and I didn't think of THAT! Referring to the captured piece capturing en passant, that didn't occur to me! That really makes it wild. ...

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Sid, does this point to a possible worst-ever flu season in North America for the reason that all the people vaccinated against covid will have an immune...

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Haven't you been involved in chess for a long time? So why now are you suddenly realizing en passant is insane? Why now are you looking up how en passant...

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You could end up with positions in which there is a chain of en passant captures. The first piece to make an en passant capture could itself be en passant...

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I was going to use that exact same sentence: "I never met Wayne but feel as though I've lost a good friend". Amazing, i think all of us regular...

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I did agree before that the void is nothing, but now I have rethunk it LOL and I have a new view. But first let me ask you a most difficult question:...

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Well, if there is some kind of "pressure" from the void that is limiting the expansion of the universe, each successive "Big Bang"...

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Yes, but these philosophical questions should only be insoluble in water. That way, you need a good dose of alcohol to tackle them! :)...

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Ok, Bob, thanks for clearing that up. I wholeheartedly agree with your last statement. Unfortunately I don't think the vaccinated are doing that, for...

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Ok, but if you are saying that once the vaccines fight against the virus, the host cannot transmit the virus to others, that is way more than semantics,...

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Yes, whether going forward or backward, at any point you have only gone a finite distance. This does not change the possibility that time keeps on going...

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Surely you can agree that infinite regress is POSSIBLE even if the notion seems absurd to you. If not, then how can you explain a void surrounding the...

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Ok, this is your viewpoint, but it is not provable that "before" the Big Bang, there was no matter or energy.

In the article on...

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While I do not agree with the majority of what Sid has said here, especially his views on masks, I do have to correct you Bob, because on this one point...

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Ok, so before the Big Bang, all the matter and energy in the universe is compressed into a tiny point surrounded by a "void" which is a lack...