Takumidesh

Funny, but really, those things are marginally more effort than learning the rules and are a far cry from the level of effort it takes to actually be considered broadly 'good' at chess.

Learning one opening system can be done in about an hour and most of the tactics advice is just things to think about as you play.

The thought termination at the end, ugh...

It's not about a banner, the subject is a person and there is a predicate to a direct object. The post is about people who do something, not about the thing they do.

Lichess -> chess.com

But it's hard to be impartial / objective about modern stuff like that.

If you want to beat all of your friends at chess:

learn how to mate in endgames with a few different combinations of pieces.

Castle early and on the same side of your opponent.

Learn to defend scholars mate.

Focus on piece development early on, get you back rank pieces out (bishops knights)

Fight for the center

When attacking a square, just count how many other pieces are attacking and defending that square and see if you have more than your opponent, this is a great way to quickly analyze an attacks value.

Trade when you have a piece advantage, this is like taking a math question and simplyifing the terms. It greatly simplifies the game and brings it in to the the end game with an advantage.

Learn any one opening system just a few branches that can consistently bring you into tactics (static analysis of the board state) even or with a slight advantage.

These tips can be accomplished in a week and will dominate anyone who 'just knows the rules'

Hopefully the TVs don't won't require that connection to operate.

Millennials are Gen Y

Or they are used because of the ability to be bypassed, e.g. japanese porn censorship

I think most people would just use Windows without activating it

What was stupid, really.

Maybe I just didn't phrase something exactly how you wanted but the conversation was basically.

'i think ai can do a good job at subtitles'

'no it can't, because translations are nuanced'

'i meant subtitles in the context of captions, not translations'

I think it's a fair misunderstanding and I felt that I did a fine enough job clarifying when it was presented, but I guess not.

But calling someone an idiot is explicitly insulting their intelligence just the same.

What about the word is offensive?

Is it just as offensive as calling someone stupid, moronic, dumb, or an idiot?

Is it that insulting someone's intelligence is inherently offensive? Or is it just that it's one of the most recent to become medically obsolete?