Ah, the most powerful piece in the game. The queen. She can move in eight directions over great distances, she can outmaneuver any single piece on the board, she is used in more attacks and mates (statistically) than any other piece. Very valuable. So valuable, that she is worth 3 …
I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit the other day. I was trying to take a screenshot of my Android phone while it was playing the boot animation. Of course I tried the standard adb tools:
adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/screencap.png
To which I would follow with an adb …
Merry Christmas everyone! May God bless you and yours again today, as he already did so many years ago, as we can see in this wonderful song!
Good Christian men rejoice
With heart and soul and voice!
Give ye heed to what we say
News! News!
Jesus Christ is born …
Did you know that Bobby Fischer's favorite piece was the king side bishop? Well, at least it is according to Grand Master Mihail Marin in his book, "Learn From the Legends: Chess Champions at Their Best". On numerous occasions, Mr. Fischer will hold onto his king's bishop until the very …
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 …