They say that the folding chessboard was invented by a priest who was forbidden to play chess. This priest found a way to hide his game by making a folding chessboard. When folded together and put on a bookshelf, it looked like two ordinary books. Wow! The lengths people will …
There is a lot of buzz around the net on this idea of open source hardware (OSHW). However, the deeper that I look into it, the more tangled the web seems to be. I've been noticing that some sites tout equipment as OSHW because they have SOME open source hardware …
There are only 20 first moves in any standard game of chess. 20 choices, 20 options. Statistically, only 10 of those options regularly result in a win, or at worse, a draw among experienced players. 10 of those moves statistically result in a draw or loss. So, choosing that first …
While starting my new attempt at an Oreo build for the H811/H815 (T-Mobile LG G4), I ran into an error, right off the bat:
Error: TARGET_USES_UNCOMPRESSED_KERNEL is depreciated!
I took a look at the make files that build the kernel. You can find them in the tasks folder under …
Sometimes, you just have to step out in a new direction. In the 1920's, chess players began to hold to a new style of play, then called hypermodernism. In this phase, conventional moves were called into question, and they began to invent interesting new ways to control the center of …
I had an old laptop that I decided would make a good toy for playing around with some lightweight server applications. It was a great candidate for several reasons. For one, I'm not using it for something else. Second, it was free. Third, it has a built in battery backup …
January 30th, 2004 marked the Guinness world record for the largest networked chess computer. Using the internet to connect with 2070 computers, this networked conglomerate challenged Grand Master Peter Heine Nielsen, and the game ended in a draw!
All that to say that sometimes, we all need a little help …
Recently, while working with some older equipment, I needed a lightweight java IDE to compile some java projects. I really wasn't looking for something quite as big as eclipse or netbeans, I just wanted a simple, one stop solution that would allow me to build java programs on an older …
Occasionally, I do a theme, or idea, on a given day for a period of time. Currently, I have been spending quite a bit of time working on chess engines and their play. So, I am going to create a "Fool's Mate Friday" post. That's right, every Friday, I'll be …
Typically, if we want to check the internet connection speed, we can just use a web browser with any of the usual internet speed test sites. However, the other day I actually needed to test the internet connection speed on a machine without using a browser.
In this case the …