Here's another new chess that brings yet more power to the bings. A good bing could even be worth more than 2 rooks!
1) An n-powered bing has up to n moves in 1 turn.
2) All bings start out as 1-powered bings.
3) Once they reach the last rank of the board, they are promoted to the next rank of bings. Also, after promoting to the next rank, the bing can move back to its own end of the board to be repromoted into a bing of the next rank.
4) 2-powered bings can move in all 4 directions.
5) 3-powered bings can move in all 8 directions (including diagonals).
6) A bing may consume more than 1 piece a turn.
Happy pwning with bings.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Quick bings (of D00M!)
Rules:
1) Bings can move in any direction now, and have 2 steps each turn, which means they can step back and then left, and can hence kope 2 pieces in 1 turn!
2) Once a bing gets to check the opponent's king, it can spend the next turn promoting into a rookish bing, which can move like a rook, but has 2 moves each turn as well! (uhoh)
3) Bings can choose to move 1 step as well. Same goes for rookish bings.
4) Everything else as in Chinese chess.
Note: The bings are REALLY REALLY overpowered in this one.
1) Bings can move in any direction now, and have 2 steps each turn, which means they can step back and then left, and can hence kope 2 pieces in 1 turn!
2) Once a bing gets to check the opponent's king, it can spend the next turn promoting into a rookish bing, which can move like a rook, but has 2 moves each turn as well! (uhoh)
3) Bings can choose to move 1 step as well. Same goes for rookish bings.
4) Everything else as in Chinese chess.
Note: The bings are REALLY REALLY overpowered in this one.
Friday, April 24, 2009
A very simple Maths question (courtesy of SMO)
Note: Please do not post the solution here. Or practically anywhere, but well here it is.
if a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9...an =1, and they are all positive, Poof
summation of (1/1+ai) where i ranges from 1 to n < n-1
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if a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9...an =1, and they are all positive, Poof
summation of (1/1+ai) where i ranges from 1 to n < n-1
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Unbanned from chess!
SYF is over!!! (yay!) but we got silver (aw...). Wait did we get gold? ( : )? ). It remains highly debatable, but yea officially silver : (!
But seriously, who reads blogs about SYF. Especially other people's SYFs?
So lets get down to other stuff.
I've really been meaning to post tons and tons of stuff, but I've forgotten all of them at the moment, so well I guess its for the oncoming posts then. But this post cannot be content free right?
So here's something!
Chemistry it is!
The reactivity series contains a set of metals arranged in order of reactivity. Reactivity is largely determined by the ability to lose electrons. The most reactive metal is on the top and the least at the bottom.
K
Na
Ca
Mg
Al
Zn
Fe
Sn
Pb
[H]
Cu
Hg
Ag
Au
Note that I separated them into three groups. If I am not wrong, the top group reacts with water, somewhere down it only can react with steam and the bottom few do not react at all! How cool!
But seriously, who reads blogs about SYF. Especially other people's SYFs?
So lets get down to other stuff.
I've really been meaning to post tons and tons of stuff, but I've forgotten all of them at the moment, so well I guess its for the oncoming posts then. But this post cannot be content free right?
So here's something!
Chemistry it is!
The reactivity series contains a set of metals arranged in order of reactivity. Reactivity is largely determined by the ability to lose electrons. The most reactive metal is on the top and the least at the bottom.
K
Na
Ca
Mg
Al
Zn
Fe
Sn
Pb
[H]
Cu
Hg
Ag
Au
Note that I separated them into three groups. If I am not wrong, the top group reacts with water, somewhere down it only can react with steam and the bottom few do not react at all! How cool!
Friday, April 17, 2009
On charges (physics)
It's been a boring week (ever since Thursday morning more like, when I was banned from chess). But then again, it has been said that every dark cloud has a silver lining, but I somehow think that the silver lining must be really really thin in order to not weigh the cloud down. Seriously, I never thought silver could be harvested from clouds. Maybe that's where all the silverware is coming from. Hmm...
Now to the main topic, charges. Charges are weird things. I haven't read up yet, but I suspect 2 things. Either 1) They have some weird relationship with gravitational force that you (NO!) don't want to know about, or 2) They are caused by charges (Is this even any better?).
Anyway, the story has it that in the middle of each atom, there appears to be many flying things flying around the center pile of bigger stuff. Just imagine an Earth with many many little pallets flying around it like mad. Like.... at a mere fraction of the speed of light (wait thats not good, 1/100000000 happens to be a fraction as well), but then again, you get it, I think its in the same order. =).
The little flying pellets are called electrons, and have been reminding unfortunate students of much more common stuff like electricity and electrolyte as well as death by electrocution. But thats deviating again. The chunk in the middle is made up of many many bigger things that are nearly 2000 times bigger than electrons. Those things consist of neutrons and protons, and the main significant difference is that protons are positive, neutrons and neutral and electrons are negative. There have also been 2 things observed by a futuristic thought experiment involving weird things like potatoes and nailclippers mashed together with 42 different formulas and 1337 atmospheres of pressure. Ok that was plain random. Anyway, tada, 2 new parts of an atom has just been created out of my imagination. They are the multitron and divitron. As their names suggest, the multitron has a multiplicative charge and the divitron has a divisive charge. They mostly balance each other out and I don't really care if they defy all laws of conventional physics including the fact that leviating potatoes look really really weird even if achieved somehow. And now the confusion begins.
Phew! I just tided over a long paragraph.
Now for an even longer one.
So now, I am very sure that you have often heard many voices in your head saying "Like charges attract, unlike charges repel." Repeat that a billion times. Boomf. Watch that. I don't like head juice on my face. It tastes sour with an estimate pH of 4.2. Not dangerous, but corrosive nevertheless. Basically, listed out, it means that 5 things are ruled out: 1) Positive charges attract positive charges. 2) Negative charges attract negative charges. 3) Negative charges repel positive charges. 4) Positive charges repel negative charges. 5) Potatoes are flying. The first 4 will potentially blow your brains up with the complexity and the immense amount of logic needed to derive it from the first axiom as stated up there might be potentially hazardous, but hey! the last one is so obviously following from the axiom. Please note, as a clarification, that the fact potatoes are not flying does not mean they never will. Well, who knows? Next thing, Coulomb's Law, wassit? Anyway it states that the attraction between two charged object varies proportionately with the product of both charges divided by the square of the distance between them. Both axioms can be coupled together and summarised in a neat and short and sweet sentence as follows below:
Potatoes are an irreplacable part of life, just like Chess and 42.
More to come, but its getting really really late.
Now to the main topic, charges. Charges are weird things. I haven't read up yet, but I suspect 2 things. Either 1) They have some weird relationship with gravitational force that you (NO!) don't want to know about, or 2) They are caused by charges (Is this even any better?).
Anyway, the story has it that in the middle of each atom, there appears to be many flying things flying around the center pile of bigger stuff. Just imagine an Earth with many many little pallets flying around it like mad. Like.... at a mere fraction of the speed of light (wait thats not good, 1/100000000 happens to be a fraction as well), but then again, you get it, I think its in the same order. =).
The little flying pellets are called electrons, and have been reminding unfortunate students of much more common stuff like electricity and electrolyte as well as death by electrocution. But thats deviating again. The chunk in the middle is made up of many many bigger things that are nearly 2000 times bigger than electrons. Those things consist of neutrons and protons, and the main significant difference is that protons are positive, neutrons and neutral and electrons are negative. There have also been 2 things observed by a futuristic thought experiment involving weird things like potatoes and nailclippers mashed together with 42 different formulas and 1337 atmospheres of pressure. Ok that was plain random. Anyway, tada, 2 new parts of an atom has just been created out of my imagination. They are the multitron and divitron. As their names suggest, the multitron has a multiplicative charge and the divitron has a divisive charge. They mostly balance each other out and I don't really care if they defy all laws of conventional physics including the fact that leviating potatoes look really really weird even if achieved somehow. And now the confusion begins.
Phew! I just tided over a long paragraph.
Now for an even longer one.
So now, I am very sure that you have often heard many voices in your head saying "Like charges attract, unlike charges repel." Repeat that a billion times. Boomf. Watch that. I don't like head juice on my face. It tastes sour with an estimate pH of 4.2. Not dangerous, but corrosive nevertheless. Basically, listed out, it means that 5 things are ruled out: 1) Positive charges attract positive charges. 2) Negative charges attract negative charges. 3) Negative charges repel positive charges. 4) Positive charges repel negative charges. 5) Potatoes are flying. The first 4 will potentially blow your brains up with the complexity and the immense amount of logic needed to derive it from the first axiom as stated up there might be potentially hazardous, but hey! the last one is so obviously following from the axiom. Please note, as a clarification, that the fact potatoes are not flying does not mean they never will. Well, who knows? Next thing, Coulomb's Law, wassit? Anyway it states that the attraction between two charged object varies proportionately with the product of both charges divided by the square of the distance between them. Both axioms can be coupled together and summarised in a neat and short and sweet sentence as follows below:
Potatoes are an irreplacable part of life, just like Chess and 42.
More to come, but its getting really really late.
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