Life In 19x19

The "no respect" line is sure a mean as hell thing to say, but I don't know what the point of responding to it is. You're not going to argue Wessik into having empathy.

I read a post on L19 where the first 6 replies were all off-topic remarks and meta-commentary. Anyone know of a post where the first actual response occurred even later in the thread?

I actively appreciate that behavior since I like playing people who try to win. It's a total mystery to me what you find rude about it.

I help hire people and look at resumes pretty much like you and yours for a medium-sized software startup.

I think it's weird to include basically recreational stuff under your "employment history" (even given that you're a recent student, so you don't have a long history of actual employment.) I ...

What is the big deal here? KGS rules are dead simple: you can leave ranked games whenever you please, but if you do it too much you start forfeiting them.

Sure, it seems sort of silly that you can leave a game right before it's scored to avoid a loss. But you can leave a game right after your huge ...

This is awesome, you have my $50. Hooray!

Will there be more dubbed videos?

1 KB/s seems like a reasonable guess. Remember, the game isn't the expensive part; the server also needs to be polling via some mechanism for new observers, new chat, user status updates, and other errata. The bandwidth usage over time mostly depends on how that polling (or perhaps pushing, in ...

Out of the clubs on bayareago.org, I can confirm that the Palo Alto, Mayfield, Sunnyvale, and Berkeley clubs are all very active and meet most every week.

What I mean is, how do the chess servers do filtering? What options are available for creating games, and what options are available for filtering them?

Typically you host a game with whatever time settings you want, and to find a game you can either look at the game list or put yourself in an ...

I still don't get why this is an actual problem. If you don't want to be at risk of your opponent using (say) 120 minutes of time on a lost game, then don't start a 120 minute game with a stranger. This doesn't mean that there's a reason to restrict people who want to start 120 minute games with ...

70% sounds pretty plausible to me. If you'd asked me I would have guessed between 50% and 70% somewhere.

If you choose that time setting, that's what you're signing up for, right? Why bother adding an arbitrary restriction?

(Especially for such a relatively low limit. If there's a limit for some reason, it shouldn't be "half of the time you might get in a tournament game.")

He keeps saying in his posts that "typical child prodigies" achieve grandmaster from class A in a matter of a few years, and such gains are "routinely made quickly," but he's dead wrong. Typical child prodigies achieve expert or master or IM and plateau, and never reach grandmaster; there's hundreds ...

Assuming it's a reasonable-length time control, there's absolutely no reason not to record your games, and if you won't remember them without a record, then that's an extremely good reason to do so.

Having been to a few Go tournaments I have yet to see anyone quibble about any manner of electronic ...

I'm not convinced that you're really observing a recent trend in chess books. It's not for nothing that you frequently hear the equivalent of "below 1800|2000|2200, tactics win and lose every game." The fact that simple calculation and pattern recognition are the primary skills is not a secret ...