Alaric Stephen
If you are expecting another tale of me ending up triumphant like Coventry in February, I’m going to temper your expectations. This one went significantly worse. The Cotswold Open was held at The King’s School Gloucester, a beautiful location that was thankfully easy to get to via train so no...
Alaric Stephen
I travelled for my first tournament since I was a junior this weekend, to the Coventry Open. There were four sections and I played in the Under 1750 Intermediate Category, which I was just about eligible for, with a Standard rating of 1733. On the signup list I was seed 1 out of 24, but seed 2, a...
Abel Lin
Repeating someone’s name in three different contexts (question or compliment) helps you remember that name. Offer buying with cash. You’ll be surprised at what discounts you can get. Songs have been written about sunscreen, but pay attention to the back of your hands. In the immortal words...
Abel Lin
My technical training consists of one summer in my youth pouring over a C++ course book and an in-person San Francisco Ruby-on-Rails intro course. I am as non-technical as any NPC you could’ve picked. It’s a low bar, but I just spent two hours vibecoding a weekend project tool that can pull...
Abel Lin
Photo: Lennart Ootes/Freestyle Chess I didn’t find as many strategic ideas this year, only the more I study chess, the less I feel I know. Nonetheless, here are some noteworthy points! A big realization from this tournament is how easy it was to fall into a bad position quickly if you...
Alaric Stephen
The chess tournament that we run at school is underway and I host the results on my website. Here's the state as of the time I write this...
Atul Vinayak
If you haven’t read Project Kasparov Part 1, I suggest you follow this link. All my web projects were written in jQuery till now (except the timer, which was Angular 1.0). I was hearing a lot of praise for react in Hacker News and Reddit. I wanted to learn react so badly, but I couldn’t think of...
Atul Vinayak
Project Kasparov started out as a long-running desire to work on a chess related application. I found the Algorithms, Typography and Literature surrounding Chess fascinating. I am not very good at playing chess though. I was stuck with the failure of deploying canvasbot, My Genetic Algorithm Art...