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I suppose I have to weigh in, as I have some objections to some of the premises and conclusions made. This will be in two parts, the logic and then the example. The Logic Let me summarize the logic yo…

I thought the 1900 blog post was familiar, while I was listening to it. Looked again for the blog post after. Aha, it was you alright. Nice interview!

Not resigning in a totally lost position, with no hopes of winning or drawing on time is poor sportsmanship, but it's fine. But Not resigning means you are implicitly allowing your opponent to toy wit…

I don't think there's any abuse with regard to the term axiom. In the first place, these are unprovable things which we can then use to build more things upon. Now whether these axioms are useful or n…

This is definitely an important training tool, particularly in this modern age where most players' introduction to the game is online blitz / bullet. The problem is that new players never have acquire…

Great post as always. Would be good to see the better equal worse graph normalized(?) at 40 moves.

@brianch considering that we both know chess dojo eval off broadcast, seems like we both don't watch it? I mean, I am familiar with the existence of all the various broadcasts, I have the option of ch…

We're still probably at the trial and error stage, but in the end, the market will decide. chess24 / chesscom broadcasts, 50k viewers all the rest don't come close.

@ParallelPringles is that really the direction we want to go? Millions of non-basketball players watch the NBA, such as myself. Similarly, I don't drive an F1 car, or play tennis, or play football (so…

https://youtu.be/bTCAd3f1NNk?si=hIztUMqCjUeZjKwf - this is my starting point. As mentioned by the others, Dojo guys don't do eval bars. Main argument is that having eval bars misrepresents the difficu…