Pay attention to the trade-offs: How the AI cornered me and I eventually tricked it to give up its Queen while it predicted it’d get a new one anyway…which I prevented. Also, the timing of my castling was vital in order to get the upper hand and do the checkmate.
Category: Break
800LB Gorilla (humor)
ADD vs ADHD (humor)
With apologies to myself 😉
Beating Level 5 AI (Chess)
In a “noisy” all-out attack by the AI, backed up into my own back line, I saw the opportunity with 1 move, but had to prepare for that final move by keeping the AI busy while fending off its checks. But I found it and it was soon over 🙂
Fight to the end-Draw vs AI (Chess)
An interesting game video between me and the AI where we had a blood bath early in the game and it had recouped its Queen, lost it again, and then betted on getting another one, but alas, it didn’t and it came down to one pawn advantage…finally only the kings remained.
Optical illusion (and proof that you were fooled)
Light and colors can really twist how we perceive things. Looking at the picture, most of us with normal vision will see the block#1 is darker than the block#2. However, they are actually the same exact shade of gray. The dividing horizontal shading and background colors just “incorrectly” accentuates one over the other. What happens […]
What he said: Oscar Wilde
How to win against 2 Queens and Zero of your own! (Chess)
This is one of the funnest, most unusual games I’ve played on Chess Free app by AI Factory on my smartphone…the outcome was unexpected win by me being completely outscored. I’ve been playing this on level 5 for a while and maybe because I’m not an expert, I find it quite impressive at this level. […]
Random Fun with Excel
This is a seemingly useless but visually fun usage of visuals, combined with Excel functions and VBA I did to take a break from my typical gnarly Excel analytics work 🙂 How it works: 1. Fill in a formula to generate random numbers between 1 and 100 (inclusive) across the cell range. 2. Apply 2 […]
Beating Dr. T at his highest level
This is a game play recording of me beating Dr. T at his highest level 60 (available for my current level 56). The game is Boom Beach, and it’s the only phone game that I played this long, and have actually made in-game purchases for more than once…yet, it has no ads. The game is […]