Irresistible force meets immovable object, part 5. Kasparov astonished everyone by using the Scotch, an opening which had been regarded as more or less harmless for decades. He scored an important win in a game that went down to an ending with an extra exchange and one g-pawn each. Many experts thou...
Last week in Venice, notgettingenough and I were subjected to a larger than average dose of post-modernism. First, we attended the concert which the well-meaning organizers had put together for our benefit: the star turn was an avante-garde piece which featured someone banging away on a keyboard whi...
I've recently had a couple of conversations with notgettingenough on the subject of authorship attributions in scholarly works. Having worked in academia for over 25 years, I'm afraid I've lost all capacity for indignation. I just take it for granted that people will get their names on papers becaus...
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