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Long's Digest   Top Stories For You   Why don't some chess players like chess.com? Charles S., Former mathematician, current patent lawyer, ~2200 blitz chess. • Answered January 3, 2019 • 1 min read Besides what others say about the user interface and the freemium model (which I agree with), there's one feature on chess.com that bugs the crap out of me: that your time ... Read More » 55.6K 152 22   How good were ancient warriors with swords? Was it like how the movies portray it? David Johnston • Updated November 10, 2020 • 2 min read First of all, if you fought like it is shown in the movies you would be dead. I used to teach HEMA Historical European Martial Arts. Most of the moves used a look very simil... Read More » 381.4K 3.2K 75   How offensive is 他妈的 in Chinese? Sam Karthik, Authored Mandarin Chinese Books, Blogger at SKMLifeStyle.com • Updated 23h ago • 2 min read 他妈的 (tā mā de) is an invective (国骂, ɡuó mà) curse word. In Mandarin Chinese, it's considered to be a dirty word (脏话, zānɡ huà). 他 (tā) - he (indirectly: you) 妈 (mā)- mom... Read More » 304.1K 197 21   Why do chess Grandmasters use up minutes of the clock during opening moves? If they know all the good initial positions already, it would seem like a waste of time. Luke Calhoun, National Chess Master • Updated April 7 • 2 min read It's more complicated than it seems. Let me walk you through my thought process as just a master on just 3 moves from Black's perspective: e4… Hmm, should I play e5 and go in... Read More » 113.4K 615 18   How did the Germans feel when they saw the fleets of warships at the D-Day landings? Brent Cooper, Trial and appellate counsel for Cooper & Scully (1993-present) • Updated April 20 • 1 min read The quotes by Holger Eckhertz, Heinrich Runder, and Liesl Bradner are some of the best on what the Germans thought when they first saw the ships on D-Day. I was astonished a... Read More » 480.7K 3.8K 193 Read More in Your Feed

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