Five Pawn Chess for Young Children Learning Chess

5 Pawn Chess for Children

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5 Pawn Chess

5 Pawn chess begins with a lighter side major piece moving: our sides are called Honey and Chocolate at our house as grandparents. Note the bishop options and the one file option for each rook.

No castling and no en passant.

Pawn reaching the 8th rank becomes a Prince or Princess able to move as does the King or as did the Queen in Arabian chess before the French rendered the Queen all-powerful.

Having an extra set of pieces permits using inverted rooks as Prince or Princess should the need arise.

Our preference is for a nine-rank board with the darker-side having an extra rank to balance the lighter-side having the first move.

No mention is made of moving pawns first. Blocked pawn issues are simpler in first and eighth files. Each bishop has a different option.

Opening knight move is encouraged. Prior to play, a knight is placed in centre of empty board: movement is taught as 2-step: one diagonal on same colour square; one more move to change colour. Demonstrate in edge file and in corner. Remove knight. Place blcked pawns, then major pieces and lastly, the 3 wall pawns of King, Queen and King's Bishop.

Sides are picked with a sixth pawn in each hand to avoid confusion about removal or placement on board.

For sensitive child, capture is presented as "wait to play in next game" and Queen does not return even if available for an 8th rank pawn.

受
ジュ、
うけ、うけ− 、うか−

受身

Some editors may be reluctant to accept an author using the passive voice ... I don't care to receive that criticism either, but ... if you want to jouer le jeu ... vous tournez la joue !  And in defensive martial arts, the one who accepts to be your partner ... your 受け　？？　はい。そうです…

うけ
受け

Jurisprudence, Canada, and the Métis as French or English

Jurisprudence in our civil courts is not merely law and precedent in judicial interpretation of law. As a nation with a constitution, jurisprudence in non-criminal matters might be thought to come to this: is a law or regulation taken to implement a law, consistent with a provision or provisions of a constitution. The historical facts as to how a constitution came to be in place over peoples within a given polity has become a fundamental or, if you prefer, an ultimate consideration.

Consider matters of law in 1919 in Paris at the peace conference arising from the 1918 armistice. No legal presupposition appeared to entail, at that time, that the Japanese people were men in the sense that Europeans were men in matters of international law. It was not merely that some peoples lived in polities too little advanced to escape tutelage under the Europeans: it was that the peoples themselves were not men in ultimate matters of law.

Suppose for a moment that the characterization of the last paragraph does reflect the state of considerations of international law in the Paris of 1919. On this view, the national aspirations of the Japanese were stymied, historically a nontrivial matter if that frustration contributed in causing or justifying the Pacific theatre of WW2. In seeking to redress that injustice and the wrongs to which it gave rise, would it matter that the Japanese themselves were inconsistent in their evaluation of Africans as men, Korean laborers in Japan as men, the inhabitants of Okinawa as a people withe a king, or the Ainu people of Hokaido and the Kirile Islands as men?

Consider the case of Canada and the aboriginal and Métis peoples not treated as peoples in laws evaluated in relation to the new Canadian Constitution prior to 2018.

oh Google, O Alphabets !

This is my untagged Facebook post today:

Yes, some followers do not know what Microsoft calls "Azure" or that an Amazon makes profits on Web Services for cloud storage or that Google is owned by Alphabet.
Bill Gates owns the art.
Google does NOT own the alphabet as THAT is in Unicode Version 9 which is NOT Plan 9 which is another obscure reference only to amuse someone who does not follow me anyway.

Red console view GUI

This is a simpler example to paste into a Red console to test the GUI basics of using the view dialect.

view [
    below
    tgl: text "Some test text"
    text 400x30 bold italic blue font-size 16 "Text with properties"
    button "Click Me" [tgl/text: "Text Changed!"]
    field 400 "SELECT this text then Type something into this entry field"
    area 400x200
]

A Red script might declare that it needs the view module in its header.

The above script was tested with the Feb 19 2016 build of Red.

Red PL do with block

The Red programming language is moving slowly to version 1.0 and today is at 0.5.4

I thought that it might be useful to look at a do block with the prin function when entered at the Red console.

My example is as follows:

do [
  t1: "test1"
  prin t1
  t1: "test2"
  prin t1
]

The console output will be

test1test2

and NOT

test2test2

Why?

I think that this is only really clear if you see the example code as

do [
  t1: "test1"
  prin :t1
  t1: "test2"
  prin :t1
]

The difference above is that each prin function explicitly is being passed the value of t1.

This is what happens in the short-hand or syntactic sugar version of the example as I first presented it.

If a new user of Red imagined that prin was being passed the ADDRESS of t1 or the ADDRESS of its value, one might expect the meta-level do block to output

test2test2.

This is obvious to old-hands from Rebol, but it may not be obvious to users who are new to expression-based languages.

URL hyenas

The web hyenas are busy and logiquewerks.com has fallen prey to them, so that is now logiquewerks.ca

Some similar fate may await all things "eclectic-pencil" but a minus-sign as a hyphen in a web name is not worth defending!

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obscure poem

How to Cancel a Facebook FRIEND Request

How to Cancel a Facebook Request once it has been SENT : a Yahoo user says to go to that person's Fb page then hover where it reads "Friend Request Sent" as there will be a selection to "cancel request". Click. Done.

Tada.

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tanaguru color contrast for accessibility

The following 3 URL's give 3 different results from the tanaguru page ... and are all accepted by the tanaguru Firefox plugin.

http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23AA3333&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV

http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%233333AA&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV

http://contrast-finder.tanaguru.com/result.html?foreground=%23006600&background=%23330000&isBackgroundTested=false&ratio=4.5&algo=HSV

In each case the background is the brown of #330000.

All of the results are acceptable contrasting colours for text on a brown background ... but I think what a better tool might give is a carousel of results.

Am I missing something ?

Here are my setting :

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settings for Android skins on Smart Keyboard Pro

If you did not start life with an Android phone, adding a "skin" or theme to the Smart Pro keyboard may not be as obvious as the Forum web page text suggests.

You must know that to the right of the keyboard choices are identical "slider" icons on the "Settings" page for Keyboard and Input and THAT ICON in THAT row is the settings they mean for you to click on.

When THAT settings page opens for Smart Keyboard Pro you will see the skins IFF you have placed the zip files in a /skins directory or 'folder' in the root of sdcard0 using a filesystem tool.

The 'forum' page should have an image of the entry Settings page so that you can SEE what they mean.  The keyboard would be so much better if there were an option to have a Settings key as a long click option !

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How to set duckduckgo search engine for Opera browser

To enable duckduckgo as the search engine for the Opera browser without installing an extension (Jan. 2015,) the search engine edit details page must be as follows :

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How to set ixquick as default search engine for Opera browser

To set ixquick as the default browser search engine for Opera, the search engine edit details must look like this ( as of Jan 2015 ) :

It will flip to safe HTTPS when the page opens.

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Murakami fractal

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Kafka on the shingle.

Newton at the shore.

It helps to know that in Czech a "kavka" is a jackdaw.



KA

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from The Southern Journal for Applied Idiopathy archival materials on paper

From an unprinted letter to the editor left behind in the paper archives:

"After decades of symptoms brushed aside by doctors, I don't know that I'll survive a seventh decade: these doctors are now given to longevity, even though most can afford to drink and smoke the best. Without a new generation to take up the banner, change risks being slow in idiopathic treatments."

Author's name withheld pending advice; the editors, The Southern Journal for Applied Idiopathy.

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Husserl Wollheim electron object art

Philosophy TA : Husserl on EIDOS; sceptical student might consider 'electron' post-chromodynamics. ; not as concept ! Individuals ??

See also: Wollheim 68/71 on art objects

autumn window prepared for winter

Yesterday, from our breakfast table window, Fredericton

RealTime IT process monitor

CS tech and IT get realtime in late retirement : your last move has come when you part with the OS/2 memorabilia.

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red flashlight app HTMLonly alternative

These "red flashlight" and "astronomy flashlight" and "telescope flashlight" app's claim that they need to know WHAT about my identity and wireless connection and ...

So here is the minimum: a simple red HTML-only web page ( no 9-LED lamps )

http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/red.htm

It has a description ; if has some blank space ; it has a background colour ; it has a few paragraph and span elements to keep your browser content.  But they are empty.  Just non-breaking spaces.

Excuse me for no using a real Unicode hyphen above.

If you want a different shade of red, copy the page and alter the CSS style settings.  There is no Hidden JavaScript or 1-pixel iframe or FLASH or any other crap of any kind.

And wishing you clear night skies free of your neighbour's light pollution.

PS  Note that its extension is dot HTM to save you a keystroke after the keyboard "minus sign" nuisance in my URL.

PPS

I have added an alternative for those north of 25N as http://www.aule-browser.com/astro/lacerta_iau_red.svg for which the trick is to hit F11 and then to use CTRL-minus and CTRL-plus to go from mostly red screen to a simple star chart for Lacerta and environs.

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Open Command Window Here Win7

The old XP "Power Toy" Open Command Window Here became a menu option in the Windows 7 Explorer (the desktop file explorer for "Computer" or "Documents" etc.) but you must do more than Right-Click on a folder to Open Command Window Here — you must SHIFT-RIGHT-CLICK to be offered that super-user pop-up menu option.

The SH-Right-Click Open Command Window Here selection will open a cmd session on the selected folder as the present–working–directory (sic).

But the 'w' key will also go to New !

If you peek at the HTML of this blog post you should see some of the worst HTML that a Google asset can generate.

Oh, had the web only embraced MIT Curl as Markdown+Styles+Scripts ! #MSS

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