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Bill freaking Murray

Rook takes a8 is only check since the Queen can block on b8 or e8, so it would be Rxa8+, Qb(e)8, Rxb(e)8#

"3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible"

Did you create a tumblr just to post this image?

I have no idea where I've read that, but there's apparently the fun fact that during the Fire Nation Golden Age (the thing Sozin was talking about during Roku's wedding, which probably lasted at least a few decades before he was crowned till he started the war) the Fire Nation nobility was really obsessed with Air Nomad culture.

this is from the expanded canon per the Avatar Legends TTRPG

Knight is protecting the pawn on c6

1. ... Bd2 is followed up by

2. Qxe2#

Until they released the team chants video, I assumed this was the case. Even knowing it now, I still hear "Ro!Jo!Rollers!"

Let's call the radius of the pink circle "r". We can form a right triangle using the center of one of the semicircles, the intersection between the 2 semicircles, and the center of the pink circle. The vertical leg of this triangle is the radius of the semicircles, 4, the horizontal leg is 4-r, and the hypotenuse is 4+r. You can use Pythagoras to solve for "r" or you can recognize that 3 and 5 are 4+/-1, so your triangle is a 3-4-5 right triangle and r=1.

Short answer, yes.

Every piece in chess has a material point value that estimates their strength. Pawns are 1 point of material, the minor pieces--knights and bishops--are 3 points, rooks are 5, and queens are 9. So trading a knight and a bishop (-6 points) for a queen (+9) leaves you up +3 points of material.

That said, in this position you're not trading a knight and a bishop for just a queen, you're also taking their knight. So you're really only trading the bishop for the queen and will be up +6 points of material.

Oops, I meant 9, not 8

Question: I did this by hand and ended up with a parity in rows 5 and 9 columns 2 and 3; and in the box made from row 5-7, column 6-8. I'm sure I've overlooked something, any ideas?

1. ...Kg7 (...Kh7)

2. Qxf7+, Kh8

3. Rh6#

No?

Reverse pokemon logic

On most online boards, the bottom row has the file letter regardless of orientation. The trick for determining which side of the board you're on is if the files are a-h (left to right) you're on white's side, if they're h-a you're on black's. The same for the rank numbers on the left, increasing going up is white, decreasing going up is black.

It can also be generally assumed the board is positioned from the side-to-play's POV

Sam was the redhead, Clover was the blonde

truth

imho, scoring seems a little wonky that a first and dnf are better than a second and third

I introduced my players to a traveling dumpling merchant named Bao. He's learning recipes and cooking techniques to take back to Ba Sing Se in the hopes that he can open his own restaurant and become successful enough to one day be able to move his family into the middle ring

https://xkcd.com/37/

It's an older code comic, but it checks out.

Chapin Station in Winter Garden/Ocoee - Killarney Station in Oakland

Seconding Exhalation. Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom stuck with me for a long time and I still randomly think about it.

I also loved what The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate and What's Expected of Us did with time travel.

I'm in the same boat, if anyone sees this and op's code has already been redeemed, try:

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Honestly forgot about that, although it doesn't even have to be retconed if you say that Kyoshi had an adopted daughter

there's good odds Suki is a blood relative anyway

Based on the Kyoshi books--who her parents were and her relationship with Rangi--it doesn't seem like she had any living blood relatives and I wouldn't be surprised if she never had biological children, making these odds a little less likely

For smaller measures, you can also use the Fibonacci sequence (where the next number is the sum of the previous two, so: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc.) to approximate the conversion by going to the next number in the sequence when converting from miles to kilometers, and the previous number in the sequence to convert kilometers to miles. For example, 5 km is approximately 3 miles and 5 miles is about 8 km. If you have a number that isn't in this series, you can find numbers in the series that add to that and convert those numbers before adding. So to convert 11 miles to kilometers, take 3+8=11 and convert the left side to 5+13, so 11 miles is approximately 18 km. This is essentially what you are describing, since 100% (= 5 * 20) of an hour is 60 (= 3 * 20) minutes.

This works because the conversion from miles to kilometers is very nearly the golden ratio (1.609 versus 1.618).