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Does it make it type-safe though? In dynamic languages type errors also result in exceptions.

It would have a negative impact. The Russian government would be very glad to ban platforms like Google even though Google cooperates with them because it would help to control the…

> and it's not like getting gmail address is particularly difficult Last time I checked I couldn't create a new gmail account without a new phone number.

If you mean discussions at HN then that may be because folks here are mostly Americans who are interested in and aware of things in their country like any other nation. As a Russia…

Maybe you'd also find it interesting that Iceland holds the highest ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess...

A small problem with using Stockfish is that cheaters may use other programs in order to not play like a top engine. For example, Stockfish would laugh at some old versions of Houd…

> Most men can train their entire lives and will never have the skill at chess José Capablanca had when he was six, simply from watching others play the game. This is a massive ex…

Also, it's worth to mention that several people who expressed the interest to this place were thereafter persecuted by the police, including Suren Gazaryan who had to eventually le…

I guess the GP meant queen, not knight.

As for the first one, I think the reason was that Navalny called him after the investigation and clearly showed at the beginning of the conversation that he knew a lot of secret th…

By the way, if the goal is to get better at chess and not just have some fun, a huge waste of time is playing blitz and not analyzing your games. There are so many people who playe…

I guess it also depends on what openings you play as black. For Caro-Kann or French defense you probably only need to know some good spots for the pieces and some typical plans, bu…

> Should they map roughly to your in-game rating? For a typical player, the chess.com puzzles rating is at least 500 points higher than the blitz rating on this site. I think tacti…

I think bishop+knight endgame could be much more common if players actually tried to get them when defending after exchanges of queens and rooks. So, exchange as many pawns as poss…

Casper Schoppen broke all the previous records in puzzle rush (a mode where you get to solve as much puzzles as possible in 5 minutes) by memorizing most of high rated puzzles. Aft…

There was a nice discussion recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22519876

Though it's not true quicksort, it's possible to explain the idea of this algorithm with code like this in just a few minutes while the truest implementation in C with Hoare partit…