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November 15, 2020 · 8:33 pm

Lockdown comforts on YouTube

Clips from old episodes of House (but sack whoever does the titles which are mostly SPOILERS)
Lennart Green doing card tricks in English (“I do not speak very many but I do the best that I are”)
Paludarium builds
Clint’s Reptiles
Stewart Lee interviews
Trying to spot how magic tricks are done
Steve Vai’s audition for Zappa
Lockpicking and Blacksmithing videos
Barack Obama’s best bits (been too painful before November 2020…)
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· 6:14 pm

Shot glass chess set

The two sets of 16 glasses are identical, so use drinks of different colours

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October 13, 2020 · 12:00 am

Trench ford reservoir

Fungi and views near Lustleigh

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June 22, 2020 · 10:44 pm

Link to PZ chess games

http://lichess.org/games/export/pengxiao_zhu

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April 1, 2020 · 12:00 am

Chess, cards: Tempete sur L’echiquier

A fine game, where cards modify the rules of a game of chess
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September 20, 2016 · 10:08 pm

After Duck Chess, Exchange with Ducks!

The duck is a blocker: pieces cannot move through or to the square occupied by the duck. Each turn consists of (a) a move of a chess piece, and (b) a move of the duck. Most usual chess patterns of thinking are needed intact for Duck Chess (in some variants they are a positive handicap) but the duck adds a pleasing twist.

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September 9, 2013 · 11:57 am

Playing chess with pigeons

“Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.” — Scott D. Weitzenhoffer

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August 3, 2013 · 1:53 pm