Félix
@felixhc.bsky.social
I like to think and not to think. Chess, art, AI, mindfulness, you name it.
The heiress of a tire multinational raving against car culture 🤭
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Life After Cars by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek: 9780593850725 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technolo...
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October 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The heiress of a tire multinational raving against car culture 🤭
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Paris opens river Seine for public swimming for first time since 1923
Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine on Saturday as the authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up operation spurred on by it being used as a venue in the Paris Olympics.
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July 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Paris opens river Seine for public swimming for first time since 1923 reut.rs/4nzVLu6
"Spassky fell seriously ill... his appendix was removed. ... he was entitled to three postponements of three days each. He took them all, but was still too unwell to play." "Hort requested a three-day timeout... one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship" #kindchess
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Vlastimil Hort, a Memorably Selfless Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 81
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May 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Spassky fell seriously ill... his appendix was removed. ... he was entitled to three postponements of three days each. He took them all, but was still too unwell to play." "Hort requested a three-day timeout... one of the greatest acts of sportsmanship" #kindchess
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Catching up with older podcasts, I really enjoyed @ddtru.bsky.social's interview and the many interesting details about Smyslov and the research on his #chess career www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/202... His preference for natural, positional play is consistent with his restrained life somehow.
Episode 208- FM Andrey Terekhov — The Perpetual Chess Podcast
Photo courtesy of FM Andrey Terekhov This week’s guest on Perpetual Chess is FM Andrey Terekhov, who has recently released the book, The Life and Games of Vasily Smyslov . (With Foreword by Peter ...
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March 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Catching up with older podcasts, I really enjoyed @ddtru.bsky.social's interview and the many interesting details about Smyslov and the research on his #chess career www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/202... His preference for natural, positional play is consistent with his restrained life somehow.
Strikingly honest and insightful episode on how taxing #chess improvement can be from a mental perspective, even for a practicing clinical psychologist! 😧 www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/202...
EP 419- Dr. Joel Sneed on Quitting, Unquitting & Tilting- Why Even an Accomplished Psychologist & Author Struggles to Manage his Relationship with Chess — The Perpetual Chess Podcast
Dr. Joel Sneed is a professor, a practicing clinical psychologist and a highly-regarded chess author . And despite a busy professional and family life, Joel has achieved the rare feat of reaching a&n...
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February 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Strikingly honest and insightful episode on how taxing #chess improvement can be from a mental perspective, even for a practicing clinical psychologist! 😧 www.perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/202...
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Congratulations to Gukesh - World Chess Champion.
Ding's play in the final game, particularly the decisive blunder on move fifty-five, looks like a kind of self-care.
I believe *at least part of him* wanted to lose the title, and that part of his psyche took control when he came under pressure.
Ding's play in the final game, particularly the decisive blunder on move fifty-five, looks like a kind of self-care.
I believe *at least part of him* wanted to lose the title, and that part of his psyche took control when he came under pressure.
December 12, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations to Gukesh - World Chess Champion.
Ding's play in the final game, particularly the decisive blunder on move fifty-five, looks like a kind of self-care.
I believe *at least part of him* wanted to lose the title, and that part of his psyche took control when he came under pressure.
Ding's play in the final game, particularly the decisive blunder on move fifty-five, looks like a kind of self-care.
I believe *at least part of him* wanted to lose the title, and that part of his psyche took control when he came under pressure.
Some are critical of the level of play in #dinggukesh but I found the match absolutely engrossing. The tight score kept building up the human drama of an 18yo that could not possibly be ready for such incredible pressure, and the Herculean struggle of a reeling world champion to find himself again
December 14, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Some are critical of the level of play in #dinggukesh but I found the match absolutely engrossing. The tight score kept building up the human drama of an 18yo that could not possibly be ready for such incredible pressure, and the Herculean struggle of a reeling world champion to find himself again
In thriller no. 13, Gukesh chose the variation associated with the first World Chess Champion, Steinitz, against the French Defense. I found the potential idea of a knight tour b1-c3-e2-f4-h5 to pressure Black's castled king quite wonderful. #DingGukesh
December 12, 2024 at 5:11 AM
In thriller no. 13, Gukesh chose the variation associated with the first World Chess Champion, Steinitz, against the French Defense. I found the potential idea of a knight tour b1-c3-e2-f4-h5 to pressure Black's castled king quite wonderful. #DingGukesh
Struck by the number of references to #chess in Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. I am painfully aware of the distortion in the sense of time that he associates with the #flow state. www.harpercollins.com/products/flo...
Flow
“Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determi...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Struck by the number of references to #chess in Csikszentmihalyi's Flow. I am painfully aware of the distortion in the sense of time that he associates with the #flow state. www.harpercollins.com/products/flo...
Excellent tour of current engines and useful ways to play against them #chesspunks
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Engine sparring
A review of different engines and how to use them for practice
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November 11, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Excellent tour of current engines and useful ways to play against them #chesspunks
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I'll never have a highly imaginative artist on my payroll, so I find this use of #genai brilliant and entertaining openai.com/blog/dall-e-...
DALL·E: Introducing outpainting
Extend creativity and tell a bigger story with DALL·E images of any size.
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February 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM
I'll never have a highly imaginative artist on my payroll, so I find this use of #genai brilliant and entertaining openai.com/blog/dall-e-...
elpais.com/cultura/2024... un autor que merece mucha mas atención
Edgar P. Jacobs, el genio oculto del tebeo europeo
La reedición de su icónica serie sobre Blake y Mortimer y un cómic biográfico rescatan al creador belga y sus mayores virtudes: pasión por una tecnología representada con verosimilitud, el refle...
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January 15, 2024 at 5:46 PM
elpais.com/cultura/2024... un autor que merece mucha mas atención
Impressive virtual restoration of an Artemisia Gentileschi painting www.bbc.com/reel/playlis...
The naked portrait covered up for centuries - BBC Reel
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November 4, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Impressive virtual restoration of an Artemisia Gentileschi painting www.bbc.com/reel/playlis...
Nice interview of GM Aagaard, who touches on adult chess improvement, including the critical ability to identify all options (candidate variations); his comment on how to become a faster runner (just high incline sprints) is obviously a gross oversimplification, so are his puzzles too hard too?
Chess Journeys: Tales of Adult Improvement - Ep. 104 GM Jacob Aagaard
This week on Chess Journeys, I spoke with the one and only GM Jacob Aagaard. We discussed a wide range of topics such as his chess career, coaching, and adult improvement. Most importantly I asked him...
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September 23, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Nice interview of GM Aagaard, who touches on adult chess improvement, including the critical ability to identify all options (candidate variations); his comment on how to become a faster runner (just high incline sprints) is obviously a gross oversimplification, so are his puzzles too hard too?
A nice analysis of chess opening effectiveness using performance ratings instead of the usual and misleading expected score
https://simonm.substack.com/p/musings-on-chess-openings
https://simonm.substack.com/p/musings-on-chess-openings
Musings on Chess Openings
In a recent episode of the Perpetual Chess Podcast, Ben talked about how different openings perform at different levels: It had me looking at how different openings score. I probably I should be doing...
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August 19, 2023 at 11:28 PM
A nice analysis of chess opening effectiveness using performance ratings instead of the usual and misleading expected score
https://simonm.substack.com/p/musings-on-chess-openings
https://simonm.substack.com/p/musings-on-chess-openings