So I did mention how I made a chess melee Puzzle Generator.

I did it two times: One time in Python with a chess library, the other time on top of my Melee solver written in Pascal from scratch.

Well, I am currently working even more on something with these chess puzzles, but that's not what I wanted to talk about.

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So I have a fic sitting there waiting to be edited. I also have things to do for my degree.

So what did I do the past two days?

Reimplement my chess melee puzzle generator in Lazarus/Pascal, building on the solver one I have written from scratch

That being said, it's worth noting the speed difference between these two puzzle generators. For generating 100 puzzles with 11 pieces, the python one takes 5 times longer than my Lazarus one.

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Just saw a Youtube short where a woman says in an interview "if the sun is too hot, why don't we go when it's night?" followed by the reaction of some people.

Now, the silent stares as a reaction was fine per se. It's a played reaction purely on the statement.

What annoyed me were the comments under the video.

"Fly to the sun at night" is a relatively popular joke. Probably even very old. And yet, not a single one came to the idea that the woman was clearly joking.

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I did mention at some point how I struggle to watch or get into something new.

Well, after this I decided to start something, not one, but two anime series (another was also tried, but was nothing for me).

This isn't a review of the series I watched, but something I observed about myself in regards to the genre mystery/detective stories.

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Another blog post today? Huh?

Read part 1 here, because I will continue without any explaination.

So I found an even better approach for generating sizes bigger even than the puzzle site offers—mostly because I tried to generate a melee puzzle with 18 pieces and after more than half an hour it still couldn't come up with one.

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I did mention a bit how I programmed a Chess Melee puzzle solver, one time from scratch in Pascal and the other time with a library in Python.

Just a short explanation: chess melee is a puzzle where one has to do only capture moves, white begins, then black, then white etc, and one has to end with just one piece left.

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I did say that new stories will flood in.

I was right

To those who want to post new stories that are not atw contest entries and want other people to notice their stories: Consider waiting out this weekend. Expect a storm of new stories and your non-entry getting burried.

Of course, my assumption might be wrong, but contest deadlines are usually a bad time for other stories to get published (and atw is a contest with like the most amount of entries) and getting a change for a feature spot, so take my advice as a suggestion

So the A Thousand Words contest is currently going and approaching the deadline. I did have some ideas, and even know play with some, but I have no motivation to do one.

Well, what was to expect otherwise? I barely write, don't read fics, don't engage with the fandom besides these blog posts on fimfic, of course I won't have a real motivation to write for this fandom.

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So as I have mentioned in my previous blog posts, I have written a solitaire chess, solo chess and chess melee solver from scratch in Lazarus/Pascal.

That being said, as Melee puzzles are a big pain, I decided to either write a Discord bot or a webpage to quickly get the solution to them (not during timed solves when competing, of course). Well, I didn't get Lazarus nor the compiler FreePascal to work on the Raspberry, so rewriting the melee solver in Python it was.

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