While reassembler was sleeping

And so we become what we hate.

Shortly after I hit Reassembler’s pause button, I played at the New England Open. Performance rating 2199, 2 points out of 5 games in the Open section.

But I soiled myself with moves like this:  Slater – MacIntyre (2325) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.0-0 e5 8.dxe5.

After the game I apologized to Paul for playing dxe5. As I explained to Denys Shmelov, it’s not that I’m trying to draw; it’s that after decades of sacrificial nonsense and unwarranted aggression, I’m trying to understand clarity and simplicity (a subject beaten to death already on this blog).

Yes, you mentioned that before

In this style I drew IM Foygel and NM Hal Terrie, perhaps with a small advantage in each final position.

Still, disgusting.

My only excuse is that I won’t keep doing this forever. In a year or so I have to try to synthesize this stuff with tactical play (right now it seems like I can only toggle from one mode to the other; I overlook incredibly obvious shots when I try to play positionally.)

Prime

UCLA mathematicians discover a prime number with 13 million digits.

Strong men

What happens to those TV dudes lifting giant concrete spheres and dragging trains with their teeth? Short answer: Some die young and poor. Some stick around and do sideshows.

The four greatest rock songs in history for playing at extremely high volume

4. Two Hearts Beat As One - u2

3. Sabotage - Beastie Boys

2. Misfit Love – Queens of the Stone Age

1. Zero – Smashing Pumpkins

Parkour

“If martial arts is preparation for the fight, Parkour is preparation for the flight.” – David Belle