I was unaware of that. If the competition is not implementing the full chess rules, then I'm a bit confused on how they call it chess. Is it that hard to add castling and pawn promotion? More likely they wouldn't own the record if they implemented those additional features.
Ah interesting, I found a setting that will make it automatically accept a draw, so there is that option on some websites.
I play chess online every day and have never used that site. Ever heard of chess.com or chessfriends.com? OTB stands for over the board, yes in meatspace. What do you mean it does not apply to tournament games? I was distinguishing between OTB games and online games, because in online games the draws are automatic, which is the case on both of the sites mentioned above. From what I can tell from that horrid website is it's a chess server, without a web interface. So did you actually program the chess rules? Do you have a 'claim draw' option or does it automatically draw (genuine question). I'm very tempted to waste time to play on that server and find out for myself. I have also made a chess website, but it does not have the ability to play other people. It's for analyzing your own games and creating chess puzzles. So congrats on doing that website if you are in fact Alexander Maryanovsky, because I know how hard it is. But your site is terribly out of date and you may want to update not just the UI but also the rules since that handbook I'm quoting is the official handbook that professional chess players use.
Sorry I didn't have time to research before, because you know this thing called work. But here it is for you, I spent the time to look at the FIDE handbook instead of wikipedia. At 50 moves you can claim a draw, which is automatically implemented online at every chess website I've played on, but it's actually at 75 moves it legally ends as a draw whether or not you claim it in OTB tournaments. So we were both wrong.
Enjoy:
http://www.fide.com/fide/handb...
Section 9.6
'any consecutive series of 75 moves have been completed by each player without the movement of any pawn and without any capture. If the last move resulted in checkmate, that shall take precedence.'
Go fist yourself.
Counter point - It's not chess if it doesn't implement all the chess rules. What it is, is impressive for being half done.
Actually, it does end automatically. I've seen it happen playing chess online. In an OTB (over-the-board) game, I am convinced a draw would be agreed upon well beforehand unless one player was going for a time win.
Regardless, your selective quote left out the end: "In the 20th century it was discovered that some positions of certain endgames can only be won in more than fifty moves (without a capture or a pawn move). The rule was changed to include certain exceptions in which one hundred moves were allowed with particular material combinations. However, more and more exceptions were discovered and in 1992 FIDE abolished all such exceptions and reinstated the strict fifty-move rule."
I love stranger in a strange land, truly one of my favorite books, but I don't think it would make a good movie. The whole idea of aliens on mars seems played out.
I hope they didn't get the idea from Vonnegut; I recall it ending badly for those involved.
A partial quote that summarizes the point clearly:
"The intensely personal and uniquely pervasive sphere of privacy in our personal computers requires protection that is clear, practical and effective. An overly complicated template, such as the one proposed by the majority, does not ensure sufficient protection. Only judicial pre-authorization can provide the effective and impartial balancing of the state’s law enforcement objectives with the privacy interests in our personal computers. Thus, I conclude that the police must obtain a warrant before they can search an arrested person’s phone or other personal digital communications device. "
How is a third of the speed of light considered "close to the speed of light"?
I had to go back and check because you made me doubt myself. As stated in the article:
“As the yeast becomes more unique over time it contributes those characteristics to the flavour and the character of the beer, so potentially this is different than yeast used anywhere else,” said Wall.
“It’s been pretty much separated from mixing with any other yeast and is kept alive, so each batch you keep a little bit and use it in the next and it grows up more, the same thing can be done traditionally in a bakery.”
David Thiessen, a student from SIAST’s bioscience technology program, is using DNA techniques to characterize the genetic identity of GWBC’s proprietary yeast culture.
“Then they will see how close a match it is to an existing strain at yeast banks,” said Fuller.
I am by no means an expert. I have never made beer myself but have friends that take it very seriously. It's possible to start with a commercial strain and have it evolve into something your own.
Maybe this was a better link to post, although I found the first one more interesting:
The summary reminded me of this prophetic gem: http://www.theonion.com/articl...
From my understanding, the most successful breweries are not as concerned about their recipes being stolen because they have a proprietary yeast strain that they own and no one else can get.
For example: http://globalnews.ca/news/1542...
We can predict everything, except the future.
