How about a game of chess?
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No that it's got anything to do with this thread, but chess is one activity that has really benefited from the lockdown - there's a whole host of online pro-tournaments to watch, in the unlikely event that anybody's interested - most of them with timescales that make the games relatively short - i.e. 30 minutes and 10 minutes total rather than the usual 4-5 hours.
And yes, my wife and kids think I'm a complete dork, too.
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Despite all your enjoyable photography, there has really only been one seriously good female chess player.
Not that anybody cares about that of course.
This is Tanya - she does the YouTube commentary on the current tournaments. She isn't the one seriously good one. Of course, I'm only watching because of Magnus.
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Chess is imposing to the uninitiated. Most casual fans could spend their entire lives studying a library’s worth of chess theory, only to still be routinely humiliated by competitive players. Simply getting started is difficult, too. The basic rules require a decent amount of time to memorize before anyone can make their first moves, a hurdle that has stopped plenty of people from ever trying the game.
Link to videoBut what if there was a way to quickly improve your abilities without spending hours hunched over the board? If the mental strain that comes with learning chess isn’t enough, will some actual, physical pain do the trick? That’s what YouTuber Fletcher Heisler, aka Everything Is Hacked, wondered before embarking on the monthsong, tortuous journey of designing, building, and playing a custom chess set capable of delivering a Taser-like shock whenever it detects an error. As recently highlighted by Hackaday, the results are as fascinating as they are sometimes difficult to watch.
