auntbutters
Every measurement unit needs to go into decimal places where precision matters. If you are recording a temperature in Celcius to 5 decimal places, that temperature in Farenheit will also have 5 decimal places. You just happened to pick an edge case where all those decimal places in F are 0. You could have instead picked, for e.g. 26.52348C = 79.742264F.
It’s probably just a matter of what you’re used to. Celcius feels just as natural to us Canadians as (I’m sure) Farenheit is to Americans. We talk in round numbers too, they’re just a bit different than yours. 0C is a (literally) freezing cold winter, 30C is a hot summer day.
Inexperienced players like bringing the queen out early because it’s a powerful piece – you can attack many things with it, and maybe even set up a quick checkmate.
As you get more experienced, you realize that it’s usually foolish to expose the queen too early. You are giving your opponents the chance to develop their pieces with tempo by making theats against your queen, and while you are busy moving her around, you are failing to develop any of your own pieces.
For example, in the above position, you have all your pieces out and are almost ready to castle. White doesn’t have a single piece out, except for the Queen. The initiative you have is worth more than a pawn, practically speaking.
That’s all true. I do also think that there needs to be a certain amount of built-in stability in order for federated communities to grow. People are less likely to stick around if there is a high risk that their favorite communities becomes fractured into isolated instances.
Interesting. It seems like dubious sharp lines, like the Englund gambit, lead to the shortest games. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can easily go wrong. But if you know the refutation, your opponent quickly gets a losing position as well.
If the other passengers were aware of all the red flags with the sub, they’d all be terrified. It was just a matter of time before that death trap claimed its victims.