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Bold move by Dan
@boldmovebydan.bsky.social
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Dan Bock from Durham, NC. Three-time chess podcast guest. 114th best chess player in North Carolina. I have a Substack called the Chess Improvement Lab. Web and mobile app developer, runner and dad in my spare time.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 20h
In December I wrote a blog post called “Vladimir Kramnik is the most boring person in the chess world” and then stopped thinking about him entirely, which felt like the right thing to do at the time. Now I’m not so sure. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 1d
I think AI chatbots would have a better reputation if, instead of being 80% right on factual questions, they just refused to answer them. You’d be like “who was president of the United States in 1954” and it would just say “ERROR: factual question detected. Please try again.”
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 1d
Good news, I asked ChatGPT if it can help with NFL officiating, and it said yes.
andrewsiciliano.bsky.social Andrew Siciliano @andrewsiciliano.bsky.social · 1d
Roger Goodell says the NFL is looking into how AI can help officiating in the future.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 1d
The follow-up tweet is just nonsensical. He’s criticizing unnamed people who claim to be friends but didn’t help. This might make sense coming from someone who was Naroditsky’s friend. But as Sutovsky acknowledges, he was not a friend. He’s not in a position to know who did what to help.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 1d
Very understandable
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 1d
Sutovsky isn’t Russian. There are bad people of all nationalities.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 2d
This is a human kind of passive aggressive condescension that LLMs can only dream of achieving.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 2d
Imagine if you asked a human being this question and they said “Good question”. You would call the police.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 2d
Has anyone effectively turned off the sycophancy in ChatGPT? Starting this response with “Good question” is psychopathic.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 2d
This is an incredibly insensitive post from the CEO of FIDE. I cannot believe what I am reading.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 2d
What we can say is that Vladimir Kramnik has done cruel things and caused a lot of unnecessary pain, and that affected Naroditsky deeply, and made the last year of his life very hard. That’s still true if it was an aneurysm that killed him.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 3d
He’s such a horrible person
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 3d
Incredible loss. Chess won’t be the same without him.
fide-chess-mirror.bsky.social International Chess Federation Mirror @fide-chess-mirror.bsky.social · 3d
GM Daniel Naroditsky passed away. He was a talented chess player, commentator, and educator. FIDE extends its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and loved ones.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 8d
Speak for yourself! I could never beat a computer at chess.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 9d
Yeah that’s a theory. Nobody knows for sure. Another theory is that getting experience in different structures is valuable.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 9d
New post in my Substack: What do you do when your chess rating goes down? substack.com/home/post/p-...
What do you do when your chess rating goes down?
My rating dropped more than 100 points after my best year ever. Here’s how I handled it, and what I’m doing now.
substack.com
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 9d
It can be about your favorite philosophy professor, if their name is also Bill
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 9d
Nf3 Kf1 Rf2
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 11d
Just kidding, Rossolimo was every nationality except Italian
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 11d
Nicolas Rossolimo
katelynburns.com Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 11d
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 11d
Her etiquette looks perfectly appropriate to me (I was going to add “…for unrated fast blitz” but actually I don’t even think that qualifier is necessary)
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12d
Sure, that happens sometimes. It’s something the people in charge of the ratings system monitor closely and make corrections for.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12d
Probably they have gaps in their skills that didn’t show up in that game.
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12d
Just play one opponent over and over and not play anyone else?
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Bold move by Dan @boldmovebydan.bsky.social · 12d
In fact this writer might be overly resigned to the impossibility of improvement. It still might happen for him!
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