Chess Endeavors
Achievements
Correspondence Chess Master, 2022 Certificate
Ratings; for the games rated for a given quarter, click on Details on the right hand side of the rating period.
The refreshed page will show the games at the bottom of the page; click Replay on the right hand side of the game listing to view or download the game.FIDE's Laws of Chess (effective 1 January 2023)
Wikipedia articles:
En passant
Castling
FEN - chess position
PGN - chess game
Immortal Games in PGN
System of Signs per Chess Informant 2008
Chess symbols in Unicode
Cheating in Chess
Checkmate Patterns
36 Checkmate Patterns
Checkmate Patterns from Wikipedia
another three dozen Checkmate Patterns7 piece tablebase; further, the FEN of the requested position is embedded in the generated URL.
The Najdorf Sicilian: a guide for Black. (PDF) (PGN)
Chess Fever: a 1925 Soviet short rom-com where the game of chess assumes the role of the other woman.
Features the only footage of J.R. Capablance I know of.
Music Portfolio
Not Easy Listening: The Best of Holland Mills 1983-1991 [MP3s, WAVs and artwork in ZIP archive]
Selections [MP3 or WAV]:
Holland Mills (cello quartet)
Live, Walpurgisnacht, Wednesday 30 April 1986
Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven (clarinet quartet)
The Addict (musical setting of the poem by Anne Sexton)
La Adivinadora—The Sea (brass quartet)
Cinders & Smokeshadows (solo cello)Scores - Chamber MusicHolland Mills (cello quartet, 1985-86)
Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven (clarinet quartet, 1987-88)The Fifty Heaviest RiffsLibrary of Congress: National Jukebox
Software and Information Technology
NEW ascci2fen - given Kh8Pc6/Ka6Ph5 as input, outputs FEN
NEW fen.h
Resources and Tools
Customize File Explorer and set view as the default in Windows
GodMode: how to deploy a fixed-UI Control Panel with minute control over the system on any machine running Windows 7-10
DeskPins allows the "pinning" of a window to the top of the screen
How to password protect zip files
Textpad - far and away the best text editor for Windows
Symbols ready for copying to the clipboard
ANU QRNG:
quantum random number generator for
seeding pseudo-random number generatorsMonitor website changes
Another website monitor
Online Tools: supporting PDF, video, image, URLs
NEW I Love PDF
PineTools: free online tools for Math, Text, Calendar, Numbers, Colors and much more
Ginormous list of useful websites
Given image, removes the background
Given image, change the background
Top PDF-to-Doc ConvertersFree OCR: onlineocr.net
I had a good experience with the Wonderfox Video Converter
4k downloader—free video downloader
Library
more Library of Congress resources (loc.gov) forthcoming in early 2024...
Music/Noise
Library of Congress' audio collection
A contemporary history of π (pi)
Longevity
NEW Dick Johnson, Windham County's male centenarian
article archived 4jan2024
Sports Streams
Personal Touchstones
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aka KlangenFarben, hajm, klang
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