thoughts from a restless mind.

statest:

I’m playing an Internet chess game where I have a bishop attacked by a pawn. I only have two squares where I can move it to safety, yet I am agonizing over the move. I guess this is why I like chess so much—the sheer exquisite agony of the endeavor.

I’m sure drinking early in the day while blasting rock ‘n roll through my Internet radio has nothing to do with my indecision.

(Source: gokhanonat, via spockandsex)

liamgoodacre:

sweet-bitsy:

lampsarepeopletoo:

punsicle:

hurdygurdygirl:

This is how I’d play chess

I HAVE NEVER LOVED A VIDEO SO DEARLY

HOLY SH*T

Isn’t this how everyone plays

Aha, fantastic!

laughingsquid:

A Look at New York City’s Vibrant Chess Culture

“Yes, you can go out there— you can just push pieces all day. You can exist, you can be. But you don’t live. You don’t thrive; you’re just there. Anybody can exist.”

(via statest)

thesummerofmark:

a closed knight’s tour on a 24x24 board

(via thatmathblog)

Chess over SMS — Adventures in Unicode SMS (via hackedy)

(Source: maudit, via psychoneurogenesis)

Anonymous asked: you are really good at chess/checkers.

oh goodness. i can’t actually remember the last time i played checkers.

this past summer i played several chess games against my ..cousins (and i’m going to use that term because it’s a lot simpler than actually trying to explain my relation). that was mostly for fun, but quickly turned into a recurring playful grudge match of sorts haha i won a few games (and had a few very creative plays) but it’s not something i get to indulge in terribly often.

before that, the last time i played was in a tournament in 8th grade where robert gonzales and i ended up playing two matches into stalemates for the finals xD dr. roman ended up buying us both trophies for that. good memories~

and obligatory mention of Deep Blue against Garry Kasparov. also, Blue Waters:

The Blue Waters project will deliver a supercomputer capable of sustained performance of 1 petaflop on a range of real-world science and engineering applications. It is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

— National Center for Supercomputing Applications (x)

philphys:

“For naming and describing do not stand on the same level: naming is a preparation for description. Naming is so far not a move in the language-game — any more than putting a piece in its place on the board is a move in chess. We may say: nothing has so far been done, when a thing has been named. It has not even got a name except in the language-game. This was what Frege meant too, when he said that a word had meaning only as part of a sentence.” 

-Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

(Source: lcc.gatech.edu, via philphys-deactivated20120616)