Also, what about Kg4 ?
Not sure if trolling or you don't understand standard algebraic notation. Sorry, I meant Ng4  That being the case, we have four votes for Nc3 (Timelord2067, jjacob, languagehasmeaning, and myself) and two for b3 (actmyname and Taras). Ordinarily I would wait to see if Taras is convinced to change his vote, but at this point it doesn't make any difference. Looks like we're going with 10. Nc3.
Yes, please add my vote to Nc3 too, even though Taras' images about the b3 street protest and summit were quite entertaining...  I will also be switching to Nc3. And this war chess game is serious business, the people want to be heard
Vote summaryThe dotted line here is 2 times the second most popular option.  Game statistics | The Confidence Index is the percentage of votes that went to the winning move. If it is high, then that move was obvious or planned. If it is low, the community was unsure or divided about how to proceed.
The Synchrony Index is 1/n, where n is the number of options that received a vote. Low synchrony means many options received votes, and high synchrony means that everyone went for the same few options. Low synchrony is not usually a bad thing, especially if confidence is high.
The Integrity Index is a measure of how seriously the game is being taken. It is the percentage of how many votes cast were for serious moves. Absurd and invalid votes, even after being revised or removed, are included in this index. If integrity is any lower than 50%, BitcoinTalk is likely to lose without moderation.
If the Confidence and Synchrony indices are equal, all options had the same number of votes. If they are both at 100%, only one option received any votes.
If all three indices are at 100%, and many people voted, well that's a perfect world.
If Confidence is extremely high and Integrity is extremely low, we're being trolled. |
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 or Ne4, which is an instant trade-off, also putting two of our pawns on one file.
This is the best refutation. It's a decent trade for White; that Black knight is quite annoying. But more importantly, it opens the d-file at a moment when White can immediately take full advantage of it with the rook and queen. This far outweighs the weakness of doubled pawns, which is generally overrated by novices. White is clearly better after 10. Nc3 b4? 11. Ne4 Nxe4 12. dxe4 ... 13. Rd1. This is pretty convincing, actually. Since 10. Nc3 b4? is probably not going to happen, is Bf3 a reasonable move for black? Should we explore e4 if it is, or if it becomes reasonable later on? Also, what about Kg4 ? Would it be a waste to play h3 some time? Or is that a mistake, opening up the fort around the king, like in Gates v. Carlsen? If you can't tell I am definitely an amateur. But also an enthusiast  |
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I think Nc3 is a bad idea, because what if black plays b4? We'd be stuck with 11. Nb1, which is a waste of time, Nd1, which is arguably counter-intuitive, or Ne4, which is an instant trade-off, also putting two of our pawns on one file. Right now, b3 is the best move I can think of. It may not be the one that wins, but I just don't want to see Nc3 right now and honestly think it's a better idea.
10. b3  |
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crackers
rjmacarthy
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Oops, I couldn't contain myself and made more charts. Vote summaryThe dotted line here is 2 times the second most popular option.  Game statisticsI will be measuring three health indices of the BitcoinTalk team: Confidence, Synchrony and Integrity.  | The Confidence Index is the percentage of votes that went to the winning move. If it is high, then that move was obvious or planned. If it is low, the community was unsure or divided about how to proceed.
The Synchrony Index is 1/n, where n is the number of options that received a vote. Low synchrony means many options received votes, and high synchrony means that everyone went for the same few options. Low synchrony is not usually a bad thing, especially if confidence is high.
The Integrity Index is a measure of how seriously the game is being taken. It is the percentage of how many votes cast were for serious moves. Absurd and invalid votes, even after being revised or removed, are included in this index. If integrity is any lower than 50%, BitcoinTalk is likely to lose without moderation.
If the Confidence and Synchrony indices are equal, all options had the same number of votes. If they are both at 100%, only one option received any votes.
If all three indices are at 100%, and many people voted, well that's a perfect world.
If Confidence is extremely high and Integrity is extremely low, we're being trolled.
I will probably modify the Synchrony algorithm later to be more readable on the chart. Honestly I just like playing with graphs.  |
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BitcoinTalk is 62% certain that Qc2 is the correct move.  Who "voted" for which please? *edit* and why place a red line at 90% ? 2nd edit languagehasmeaning and abacus were both leaning toward Qf4 if I read them correctly which is why I asked. 90% was the default, I'll put it at 2 * 2nd place % from now on Here's how I interpreted the results: Qc2neochiny jjacob actmyname Taras languagehasmeaning Qh4Foxpup abacus Qf4Timelord2067 |
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Isn't it time to quit blaming Vod? After all, we don't want to push him past his ability to resist, so that he goes off and commits suicide and goes to hell for it. Well if he does that he will have no one else to blame but himself. That's the spirit Only 235
Looks like people are afraid of being discovered and receive neg trust.
Don't worry, OP won't tell your IPs to Vod
Here is a random sample of the 235 IPs: 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.4 I will share all 235 of them with Vod if we don't reach 1000 blames by the end of the year |
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BitcoinTalk is 62% certain that Qc2 is the correct move. |
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I too vote Qc2, we can't risk putting the queen in trouble right now
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I was going through my old stuff and saw that this got to 227! Keep on blaming |
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It is too many. Or calculated and showed in real amount around 99 years, 7 months and 1 day and i do not know about the hours and the minutes. It is very much in the further future no body would be alive from this generations to witness that day. The people that celebrated it this year, celebrated it but the others won't have the chance in this life March 14, 2115 = 3.1415, then add 9 hours plus 2 minutes plus 6 seconds. Wow! I wonder how many will be eating pizza at that very second in celebration. We should all record a message so to say hi to them since chances are none of us will be around come then. This makes me sad. I really would love to be there.  |
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Unfortunately the 5000 revision limit is hardcoded into MediaWiki for safety purposes. The default is 500, but your account's API limits are already as high as possible.
It might be changeable by modifying the software, but that's probably a bad/risky idea. Alternatively you could import a memory dump ~5000 revisions behind and poll that on a local MediaWiki instance.
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This offer is still open by the way, my poetic skills have decreased even further over time
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