Last week I mentioned the changes to the Hourglass app in regards to manual time entry. As I looked over the commits, I realized that I forgot to mention the addition of a recurring timer option.
As you can see in the picture, there is now a little set of …
The rook is believed to have once been the "rukh", which was some sort of tower shaped carriage that was placed on top of an elephant. Supposedly, the rukh was the actual fortification itself, and the elephant was the means of carrying it around. In the top of this tower …
Last week GitHub user spaetz brought forward a great idea for the Hourglass Android timer app that I made a while back. He recommended that the manual time entry be adjusted so that entering any number without a colon (:) would be counted as minutes. Here you can see his issue …
Now that we have a visual board to display, and we've called for the engine to check for all available moves, we need to actually add moves for each piece. Today we are going to start with the knight. I started with the knight because I thought it would be …
One of the many things that my work requires is various IT certificates. In particular, they require Network+ for the job I am currently filling, and A+, Security+, and Linux+, for various other simulators at my work. So, I make an effort to keep my certifications current, and to have …
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 …