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[MrRoboto75]

what's a "chess?"

[martinuzz]

I do play chess. Just not online. I need a real person sitting across the table to enjoy a game. In my home, I always have a chessboard, all set and ready to play.

[KittyTac]

OTB (over the board) I usually either get flattened by my opponent or flatten them. Prefer online for a more fair fight.

I should join a chess club TBH, I want playing OTB to be fun for me instead of a roflstomp.

I used to play against my mother but ended up improving so much over her that I played the Bongcloud (1. e4 ... 2. Ke2) and still won extremely easily. And this with my 1150 Lichess Elo!

[methylatedspirit]

1150 Elo is apparently between a Hard mode Chessmaster (NES) and a 75% Stockfish dilution with random. That's assuming Elo ratings can be directly compared across different tournaments. Here's the relevant video; full chart at 41:18.

[Frumple]

I don't play chess these days, but I do feel compelled to suggest you give "5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel" a try. It almost makes the game actually interesting

[Vector]

I don't play chess these days, but I do feel compelled to suggest you give "5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel" a try. It almost makes the game actually interesting

I am indeed planning to do this :V

[KittyTac]

1150 Elo is apparently between a Hard mode Chessmaster (NES) and a 75% Stockfish dilution with random. That's assuming Elo ratings can be directly compared across different tournaments. Here's the relevant video; full chart at 41:18.

Nah it's low-level. What did you expect from a NES chess program and an engine that randomly hangs pieces (considering the random dilution)? Both are terrible players. Plus Lichess Elo =/= FIDE Elo.

I don't play chess these days, but I do feel compelled to suggest you give "5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel" a try. It almost makes the game actually interesting

I bought it when it came out. Play it sometimes. Kinda confusing.

[methylatedspirit]

1150 Elo is apparently between a Hard mode Chessmaster (NES) and a 75% Stockfish dilution with random. That's assuming Elo ratings can be directly compared across different tournaments. Here's the relevant video; full chart at 41:18.

Nah it's low-level. What did you expect from a NES chess program and an engine that randomly hangs pieces (considering the random dilution)? Both are terrible players. Plus Lichess Elo =/= FIDE Elo.

Your "low-level" is my "instant ragequit". I don't think I've ever won a single Chess game. My way of playing Chess is pretty much the CCCP algorithm described in that video, which is why I absolutely suck at it. You need to remember so many things to do well, and I simply do not have that kind of memory. I need a really crappy Chess bot to play against. One that's just as memory-constrained as I am.

[KittyTac]

1150 Elo is apparently between a Hard mode Chessmaster (NES) and a 75% Stockfish dilution with random. That's assuming Elo ratings can be directly compared across different tournaments. Here's the relevant video; full chart at 41:18.

Nah it's low-level. What did you expect from a NES chess program and an engine that randomly hangs pieces (considering the random dilution)? Both are terrible players. Plus Lichess Elo =/= FIDE Elo.

Your "low-level" is my "instant ragequit". I don't think I've ever won a single Chess game. My way of playing Chess is pretty much the CCCP algorithm described in that video, which is why I absolutely suck at it. You need to remember so many things to do well, and I simply do not have that kind of memory. I need a really crappy Chess bot to play against. One that's just as memory-constrained as I am.

Try Stockfish level 1 on lichess.org. Or play against humans there and you'll be matched against equally bad players. IMO humans are better for practicing against but the bots are fine.

And honestly maybe you're going about learning to play the wrong way. You are not a computer. You can't easily execute a chess algorithm. Studying tactics and opening principles (not drilling openings) will get you far without all that much memorization.

[methylatedspirit]

Am I right in thinking that MP3 is the current lowest common denominator for lossy audio formats? If a device can't play that while also not also being able to play Opus and AAC, then surely it's downright useless as far as multimedia capabilities go, right?

[wierd]

Well.. maybe?

Not all mp3 are created equal. There are some nonstandard encoders out there that do strange things. Also, mp3 data inside riff/wave file containers, renamed as .mp3

If a device balks, check for upstream human stupidity first.

[methylatedspirit]

Let me narrow the question: If I were to encode MP3 with its de facto standard encoder, LAME, with more-or-less default and sane settings, and a device can't even play that, is it worthless for multimedia?

[wierd]

For general purposes?

Probably not.  For special purposes? Depends on the special purpose.

[Frumple]

Mostly worthless, probably? Almost certainly more trouble than it's worth if all you're after is general multimedia use, regardless.

[Arx]

Who else's styles have you learned? Have you got mine?

A few years ago when I was here all the time I might have been able to do impressions off the cuff, but I have to look at post histories now. I probably could imitate most people but it's a varying amount of work and I'm lazy.

Re: chess, Cinder made a chess thread a bit ago. Could be a couple years by now though.