muffinlord

the antithesis of engagement

of course it was a tax dodge but he ran it like it was a real thing
a real person using a fake name.
battletech, video games, ham radio, model kits, cars, all kinds of stuff


strange-thrifting
@strange-thrifting

i understand the rules of chess and how to play, and although i pretty much suck and don't have any idea about proper chess strategy (i'm more of a riichi mahjong player), the concept of mailing written records of chess games from high level players to this many different languages in a pre-internet world is really interesting

for a Fun Fact, on the third image where you can see the actual written notation of several games, any move that's followed by a ? or ?? (e.g., ♖g3??) means that it was considered a bad move (or, in the case of ??, a critically bad move that puts one in jeopardy of losing), and thinking about a player reading their game log and having a third party look at a specific point and go "this is where they fucked themselves" got me good


namelessWrench
@namelessWrench

The mistake (?) and good (!) notations are pretty common, but there's also dubious (?!) and interesting (!?) for particularly risky plays.



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