CCM Holland Mills


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.

NEW Devastating Chess Tactics

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 Patterns

7 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 Music
Holland Mills (cello quartet, 1985-86)
Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven (clarinet quartet, 1987-88)
The Fifty Heaviest Riffs
Library of Congress: National Jukebox

Software and Information Technology

NEW ascci2fen - given Kh8Pc6/Ka6Ph5 as input, outputs FEN

NEW fen.h

Longevity Technology

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 generators

Circumvent paywalls

Monitor website changes

Another website monitor

Online Image Editor

Online Tools:  supporting PDF, video, image, URLs

  NEW Online file converter

  PDF Tools

  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 Converters

Free OCR:   onlineocr.net

I had a good experience with the Wonderfox Video Converter

Online video converter

4k downloader—free video downloader

Library

libgen.is

openlibrary.org

more Library of Congress resources (loc.gov) forthcoming in early 2024...

Music/Noise

Library of Congress' audio collection

music-map.com

everynoise.com

Cartoons Online

Looney Tunes Golden Collection

A contemporary history of π (pi)

Longevity

NEW Dick Johnson, Windham County's male centenarian
        article archived 4jan2024

NEW Longevity Technology

Sports Streams

Personal Touchstones



The image used as the browser icon as well as the top of this page and throughout this website, original music, and original software are copyright © 2022-2024 by Holland Alexander Jagentowicz Mills
aka KlangenFarben, hajm, klang
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