Monkey Raptor V.2

I Played White Hi! 👋 The "Bird Opening" position: ...Black boldly plunged the queen deep into White's territory, only to be confined. So in this, ... ⬆️ That is a description done backwards. Let's observe. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Bird Opening Bird Opening is taken from Bird's Opening , named after 19th-century English master Henry Bird (1830–1908) who championed 1.f4 for decades. As chess authorities moved toward standardising opening nomenclature, the possessive was dropped in favour of treating the name as a descriptive label rather than one of ownership — much like "Victorian" rather than "Victoria's". 🤔 The Nomenclature Continuing "Victorian" rather than "Victoria's". Well if we're genuinely following the ...

I Played Black This is the "Bishop's Opening: Calabrese Countergambit" position: What made it properly rogue : I sacrificed material twice. The f-pawn gambit itself (well... err...), then the bishop ( 15...Bxh2+ ). I castled queenside into an open position while launching a kingside attack. White's queen walked into 14. Qxc6+ . Well, back to number 1. Honestly, White had a reasonable position until they got greedy with that queen. I was baiting for it actually. That innocent looking 13...e4 ? — Greetings, gentlemen. Please do capture me. These are my hands. Ah. Let's watch. You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board. Calabrese So "Calabrese" refers to a place — specifically Calabria, the region at the very toe of the boot of Italy. The countergambit is named after Michele...

Hi! 👋 The title sounds like a charming children's picture book. Little David on the cover, little telescope, sheep in the background, lovely pastoral scene. As such: Well, that's a bazooka perhaps. And one sheep has five legs. Sheep can have all the legs they can have. Another sheep is very small with three legs. They can also have their own flairs. — I'm me. What are you going to do about it? — The last sheep is as if it's planted, like a plant, sheep plant. "Lovely pastoral scene", where? The image itself is around three point six metres away from "charming". But actually, this will be about David and Bathsheba. Right Let's consult the NIV (New International Version). It's taken from 2 Samuel 11:2 . ⬇️ One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, ⬆️ Right. Let's stop there. We have two ...

Good afternoon. 👋 I was on YouTube's frontpage. I found this: I stared at the title for more than five seconds. Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past English🧡 | Full Film #animation #movie #comedy #funny 👀 Past... English... 🧡 🤔 Past English🧡 Number One Presumably the animation would be... lovingly ... all in past form. Just being entirely grammatically past tense. The bear walked. The caveman ran. The log fell. Everyone had eaten. 💘 Narrated in the most relentlessly past tense manner imaginable. Nothing happening NOW. Everything already concluded before you even sat down. The adventure had occurred. The friendship was formed. The credits rolled. 💖 Past English🧡 Number Two Come to think of it, Old English and Middle English are precisely that. PAST ENGLISH. Without the heart emoji. Right. Let's specifically imagine it in Old English. The Anglo-Saxon utterance. AND everything is in past form. Hwæt! Se bera worhte þone hlaf! 🫵 ⬆️ Meaning:...

Hi! 👋 Remember this US TV show "Renegade"? Starring Lorenzo Lamas. No? Yes? Either way, do stay. The Music The music, mate. It was composed by Mike Post . The Western frontier spirit married beautifully with something distinctly Native American in its soul. Sounds grand. That slightly mournful, windswept quality. Have a listen: When I play the rhythm guitar... with a guitar, I first tune it to drop D open tuning (6th string to 1st string): Low D - A - D - g - d - d Not purely open tuning, because there's still the "dangling" g string. I need it stays in g for the subtle bends and pull-offs actually. I do alternate plucking or picking on those two last d strings. I always use a pick when playing this, with the other free fingers also plucking the strings, specifically the high d strings. Hybrid technique. Since pure classical method doesn't quite deliver the "bite" I expect from a steel-strin...

English Self-Pronoun "I" Every non-English speaker has done it at least once. You're learning English, you stumble upon the first-person singular pronoun, and you stop. You squint. It's just... I Capital, alone, imperious. Standing there like it owns the place. And you think — Blimey, what a pompous melon of a language. Assuming you use "blimey" for a mild disbelief. And add any type of fruit or vegetable for a further emphasis. Except... it's not pompous at all. It's an accident. A gloriously shambolic, monks-were-tired, French-showed-up-uninvited accident. Welsh got it right all along — just a quiet little "i". No drama. Very Welsh. How "I" Got Its Capital The English "I" descends from Old English "ic". Thoroughly Germanic, sitting comfortably alongside German "ich", Dutch "ik", Old Norse "ek". "ic" ➡️ "i" T...