Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A game of bridge is a collection of statistics, and the stats change with every trick. To play a game of bridge, chess, or anything else that gets played on a tabletop, strategy isn’t stagnant. Strategy changes with every move. What you’re doing with your cards or pieces halfway through the game often has nothing…

Marc Smith visits the TampAlt Qualifying event Last week, we saw the action from the early rounds of the qualifying event for TampAlt. A 12-match Swiss Teams with the top eight teams advancing to the main event, we now check out events as the final qualifying places are decided. As usual, we start with a…

I’ve spent the bulk of a three-day period trying to figure out why my keyboard suddenly thinks that an O is the letter 6. That’s not the worst of it. The letter I has become number 5. The letter J is the number 1. It’s like the computer’s keyboard has transformed into a Ouija board,…