Fuck 'Flix

[jaF0]

What kind of stupid brain dead asshole gets so hung up on a streaming service as to fall into an obsessive trap like this?

Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That

Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.



https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/9367...-set-you-can-thank-the-queens-gambit-for-that

 

[Fingerfuxs]

What kind of stupid brain dead asshole gets so hung up on a streaming service as to fall into an obsessive trap like this?

Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That

Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.



https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/9367...-set-you-can-thank-the-queens-gambit-for-that

That kinda stress doesn’t help U live longer .....just saying

 

[Wrong Element]

What kind of stupid brain dead asshole gets so hung up on a streaming service as to fall into an obsessive trap like this?

"Obsessive trap" is just another name for chess.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

I'm on the 3rd episode and it's pretty fucking great. Fuck you if you haven't learned to play by now.

 

[LLCox]

I have played chess since I was twelve. I have watched the first two episodes of QG and it looks good.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

“Oh look, something else to do while we’re sheltering in place during the Ronapocalypse!”

Can’t blame them...

 

[HisArpy]

It shows how quickly the little lemmings will run for the next shiny object.

I haven't played chess in years. The ability to innovate is nonexistent so the game becomes boring with predetermined outcomes based on the initial move. The result is that I dropped it from my repertoire.

 

[Ragingbull]

I used to play a lot as a kid and thought I was pretty good against my friends. I stopped playing in my last year of high school because girls were much more interesting. Took it up again about five years ago and joined a local chess group. Quit again when a twelve year old kid cleaned my clock in fifteen minutes. Series was great, but I’m sticking to biking, fishing, and fucking!

 

[Sean]

I've never seen the show but I do own three chess sets.

 

[Sean]

The ability to innovate is nonexistent so the game becomes boring with predetermined outcomes based on the initial move.

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Even by Tim standards.

ETA: Some numbers for you:
By the tenth move there are 69,352,859,712,417 possible positions. By the fourteenth move, the number is so large that super computers haven't been able to calculate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

 

[Adre]

...the game becomes boring with predetermined outcomes based on the initial move.

Sort of like your posts.

 

[HisArpy]

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Even by Tim standards.

dudly, there are literally thousands of books that have been printed listing all of the possible combinations in any game.

If you and your opponent learn and use the combinations, the best you both can do is play for a draw.


If you believe otherwise, you're either a fucking moron or you're a fucking moron.

 

[Sean]

dudly, there are literally thousands of books that have been printed listing all of the possible combinations in any game.

If you and your opponent learn and use the combinations, the best you both can do is play for a draw.


If you believe otherwise, you're either a fucking moron or you're a fucking moron.

And once again Tim doubles down on the stupid.

 

[HisArpy]

Sort of like your posts.

I see you decided to crawl out from the crack in the baseboard this morning.

Good for you, you cockroach.

 

[HisArpy]

And once again Tim doubles down on the stupid.

It's not my fault you're a fucking moron.

Seriously TIMMY, you need to quit trying so hard. You're like the guy who shows up at the club trying to impress everyone and not seeing them roll their eyes at you in disgust while they give you the brush off.

 

[LLCox]

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Even by Tim standards.

ETA: Some numbers for you:
By the tenth move there are 69,352,859,712,417 possible positions. By the fourteenth move, the number is so large that super computers haven't been able to calculate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number

^ This

 

[Sean]

dudly, there are literally thousands of books that have been printed listing all of the possible combinations in any game.
.

Then you would have no problem linking to one, right?

I did some maths. Let's assume, conservatively, that after 10 moves only half the playing pieces are still on the board. So to describe the positions of all possible games in standard chess notation would take 16x69,352,859,712,417x4 or approximately 4,438,583,021,568 characters, excluding spaces. There are usually about 3000 characters on a standard page, so in our example above the book would need to be about 1,479,527,673 pages long.

 

[jaF0]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/01/73/67/017367c8ebca01582459e5eef2f9da35.jpg

Fascinating.

 

[Sean]

Then you would have no problem linking to one, right?

I did some maths. Let's assume, conservatively, that after 10 moves only half the playing pieces are still on the board. So to describe the positions of all possible games in standard chess notation would take 16x69,352,859,712,417x4 or approximately 4,438,583,021,568 characters, excluding spaces. There are usually about 3000 characters on a standard page, so in our example above the book would need to be about 1,479,527,673 pages long.

The Bible is about 1200 pages long, so your theoretical book would be about 1.2 million bibles in size. That's for ten moves. The average chess game is forty moves.

 

[HisArpy]

Then you would have no problem linking to one, right?

I did some maths. Let's assume, conservatively, that after 10 moves only half the playing pieces are still on the board. So to describe the positions of all possible games in standard chess notation would take 16x69,352,859,712,417x4 or approximately 4,438,583,021,568 characters, excluding spaces. There are usually about 3000 characters on a standard page, so in our example above the book would need to be about 1,479,527,673 pages long.

Oh lookie, the argle bargle runaround appears...

 

[LLCox]

I always lose to the women... they have extra pieces that distract me.



http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B15M5oYjAlg/TGFrV0cU93I/AAAAAAAABBI/JWJmf4WjFG4/s1600/sexy_chess_004-787023.jpg

 

[Sean]

Oh lookie, the argle bargle runaround appears...

So no, you can't. You're talking out of your arse. As usual.

 

[HisArpy]

^ This

Do you know how many words there are in every language on earth? Do you also know that those words cross language barriers and form the root for even more words?

Do you know that if you memorize all of the possible root forms of the words you're given, you can win the national spelling bee as a teenager?

Anyone want to deny that same method of study can't be applied to chess? Or do you want to argue about the number of possible moves instead of combinations?

 

[jaF0]

Oh lookie, the argle bargle runaround appears...

https://www.cutoday.info/var/ezdemo_site/storage/images/media/images/fickle-finger-of-fate2/1006845-1-eng-US/Fickle-Finger-of-Fate_large.png

 

[LukSkyFokker]

At some point, you go from feeling sorry for Tim to wanting him to glue his hands to his portly belly.