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reading this book about the history of chess and it's fascinating that even when they were talking about real armies in ancient India they still had the same scale of knight = 3 pawn etc @jkup @gus
as soon as I read this, "La Marseillaise" started playing in my head

I don't know how to play as Black so I play something that's like the "anti" London?? #chess

@jkup @gus

I'm glad Lichess exists as the open source chess solution but also:

it only has the dumbass players and rude ones - and idiots who wanna try stupid mates?

This is why my friend, Gus - let us build a chess club of nice people here :) @gus

This touches on the birdsite drama but don't let that put you off. It's a beautiful rant about what the internet *could* be
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

I bet you're wondering how we got here...

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