Fighting the Sharks

[...] . No, it’s usually awkward and embarassing. Definitely A Rather A than B Rather B than A Definitely B Is bridge tournament a good place for making friends? A. No, I like to keep to myself during [...]

[...] influence the number of children a woman can have. Most of the hard work needed for success in mind sports is usually done in age from young adolescence to middle twenties. This is the time when [...]

[...] myself fresh. No postmortem Postmortem is the favorite part of the tournament for all of us, mind sports players. In chess, one can show how clever he or she is during postmortem. In bridge, one can [...]

[...] As a comment to my article about women in mind sports, one lady wrote: “It seems clear to me that to be the best at anything, you need to invest a [...]

[...] from the Pineapple poker tournament and am writing an overview of the day to the national mind sports federation’s forum. It was third day of the tournament out of ten and I was sooooo tired. [...]

[...] Despite being only 23 years old, Magnus Carlsen has already been the world number one chess player for many years. Given the huge rating gap between him and the rest of the world and his recent [...]

[...] the best attacking player and the best blitz player of all times. Tal was extremely talented chess player and was taking chess world by storm when only 22 years old. It was 1959 in Yugoslavia, when [...]

[...] know exactly the position they are in. The opposite would be true, for example, if  a chess player does not know his/her opponent’s last move. Then he/she would only have incomplete [...]

[...] of countries like Ireland and Uruguay. This article is based on a large database of 151,755 football games played between 2004-2014 in all major and many smaller football leagues around the globe. You [...]

[...] ; statistical average of overrounds of many bookies according to my analysis of over 60,000 football games over many leagues in 0.094. So you should expect to lose around 9% of every bet you make. It [...]

[...] position, given perfect play by both sides, is a loss for the starting player and the winning strategy for the second player is to make as long a move as was just made by the first player, but [...]

[...] the game. The rule of mobility allows you to look like a genius, who always figures out the winning strategy of a game before anybody else. Looking like a genius but in reality doing nothing but [...]

What is the best sports country in the world? Interestingly enough there are no sound rankings, no indices to measure the countries’ performance in [...]

[...] Olympics’ rankings, Spain leads the Tour de France rankings and France is leading the Wimbledon rankings. Actually, all three countries are extremely good in tennis, holding first (France), [...]

[...] mobility, it’s as simple as that. So the best move f2-e3 is again best because it gives maximum mobility to white. And it’s easy to find if you think in terms of mobility. Had I had a little more [...]