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This won't improve your metaphors, but it is a good place to start if you are in favour of Law and Order in chess... https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf

New York Times article on chess streaming during covid. Focus is on Nakamura, but includes quotes from GM Hansen and WGM Qiyu Zhou. https://www.nytimes.com//chess-new-streaming-obsession-twi

Stockfish 12 released This is a significantly stronger version of SF than ever: approximately 130 points stronger than SF 11. The difference is mainly due to the addition of a 20 MB neural net, which slows but improves the search dramatically. Unlike other NNs, SF12 is designed to run entirely on CPU, so there is no need for an expensive video card. As always, SF is freeware, requires a GUI (like ChessBase or Arena or SCID) to be fully functional, and comes in a variety of c...ompiles for Windows and Linux and for different hardware: - 64 or 32 bit; - recent intel CPUs run best on "Haswell" compile; - AMD CPUs run best on one of the "modern computer" compiles. https://abrok.eu/stockfish/

FIDE Online Olympiad 2020 runs July 24-August 30, 2020. Canada plays in the Top Division August 21-23. Opponents in Canada's Pool D are: USA, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Paraguay, Peru, and Poland. Top teams in each Pool go on to the knock-out rounds. Canada's players are: IM Nikolay Noritsyn, GM Kaiqi Yang, WIM Agnieszka Matras-Clement, WGM Anna Burtasova, FM Rohan Talukdar, WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet, IM Raja Panjwani, IM-elect Mark Plotkin, WGM Qiyu Zhou, WFM Oksan...a Golubeva, FM Eugene Hua, and WIM Svitlana Demchenko. Team List: https://olymp-results.fide.com/team/can Day 3: Rd. 7: Canada 2 : 4 Italy Rd. 8: Canada 3.5 : 2.5 Brazil Rd. 9: Canada 0.5 : 5.5 USA Canada does not advance to the knock-out rounds. The 2020 FIDE Online Olympiad can be followed LIVE on https://www.chess.com/tv