CS50 Joke, Chess Pressure

May 12, 2024 Lehan Edirisinghe

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Summoning Larry Summers for a Taylor Swift Studies Doctorate

3:00 p.m.

Larry Summers. I summon thee. Larry Summers! Mr Summers. I want to see my honorary doctorate in Taylor Swift Studies, PhD please.

Lehan Edirisinghe

Diploma, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts, Leicester University

No MBA

PhD (Honorary), (Taylor Swift Studies) Harvard University

Chess Opening Advice for White and Black

9:30 p.m.

If you're playing chess. My advice, is to just learn a few white openings and one black opening. So I strongly recommend the queen's gambit, or the london system. Or else, if you want, go with Ruy Lopez. With black, go with Caro Kann.

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Chess Pressure, Hidden Attacks and Chokepoints

9:30 p.m. (b)

Already winning. The whole chess game, is about putting pressure on a square, it's about how many attackers you got. How many hidden, invisible attacks. Hidden behind a pawn or in the next two or three moves. So is it 1 or 2 attacks, or 3 on a square? Then you force them into a chokepoint, to strangle them.

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- Captions / subtitles: "That's it. The rebels are there."

Praising Darth Vader as a Real Leader

5:15 a.m.

Darth Vader, was a real leader. Someone who just had this knack for telling it like it is. For just getting it right. His leadership, judgement and thought leadership, his wisdom, insights and heroism, is second to none. He is just so precise, and methodical. He saw this, and decisively made a judgement call, on his Trump gut instinct, he got it right.