Some 250 years ago, the great Philidor wrote, "The pawns are the soul of chess." Although that statement is perhaps the most common cliche in the literature of the game, it is too often misunderstood.Pawns are usually considered weak because of their limited range of movement. But the pawns' restricted mobility is precisely what makes them so important strategically: they form a semi-permanent structure -- often called a "pawn skeleton" -- that establishes the territorial lines of the coming battle and thus the nature of the battle itself. Understanding how pawns affect strategy is the subject of this important book. In it you will learn:-- how to handle the characteristic pawn structure of each opening "family" and each major variation-- how to recognize the strengths and weaknesses of pawn chains-- when to exchange pawns in the center -- and when not to-- how to cramp your opponent's position and what to do if your opponent cramps yours-- how to create and exploit pawn "holes"...and much, much more, all copiously illustrated by complete games from actual play.
It just seems wrong. In my opinion it looks awful. Will it be like that from now on? :S
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I mailed this link to someone 6 days ago:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/82538/eeeek-what-happened-to-my-envelope
It was working then. It doesn't work now. Was this question gently closed and deleted by the community, har...
It's not looking good.
I try not to draw conclusions until significant time has passed for a site to grow. It's not at all unusual for a Stack Exchange site to show flat traffic, going horizontal for awhile before hitting critical mass, then WHOOSH suddenly taking off inexorably. But Atheism's ...
Meme: Eeeek!
Usage: Eeeek! {Observation of horrible, terrible, thing that has happened somewhere in the SE2.0 codebase}?
Originator: Marti
First Seen: 4 Mar. 2011 ~ Eeeek what happened to my envelope? (sorry guys, 10k only)
Cultural Height: Probably still to be reached, given the increase of...
When you think about it, a Q&A site does only make real sense when it is about a topic for which a large number of questions may be posed. These questions need to meet two properties:
They need to be non-trivial and in large supply. If we are re-asking the same thing again and again, we are...
It would require divine intervention to salvage the site. Oh, wait...
It is common in American English and culture to refer to one's lover or significant other as "baby" or "babe", for example:
Come on baby, light my fire! 1
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I got you, I won't let go. I got you to love me so. I got you babe! 2
Where does this usage come from? What's the history behin...
Bounty is excluded from rep cap. If your bounty is 200, you cannot recover it from questions - sorry.
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I hit my reputation cap, offered a bounty, and got 13 more upvotes after offering the bounty.
The 13 upvotes didn't generate any reputation, so I was stuck at 150 reputation gained today (until one of my answers got accepted). (No, they weren't Community Wiki)
Why can't I regain the reputation...
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We’re excited to announce that Wednesday, April 6th, 2011, is World-Wide Stack Overflow MeetUp Day!
We commonly say that Stack Overflow is run by the community. We also commonly say that Stack Overflow is not a social networking site. There’s no private messaging. There’s no “friends” list. The entire focus is on the knowledge shared. So, when interest arises to organize world-wide “meet ups”, we need a little help from you.
Stack Overflow users are a diverse group of people, spread all over the world (there’s a lot of green on that map!). To get everyone involved in this year’s MeetUp, we would like to organize into local groups by getting everyone in each area together… all at the same time. We are making it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the groups already meeting up face-to-face. Meetups.com provides just that service. …
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