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Chess Board Setup Hacks: Winning Starts from the Right Beginning Introduction Success in chess begins much before you've even made the first move. Properly executed setup on the chess board will make all the difference between a win game or losing one. It's not where to place the pieces, but how to optimize your setup to create strong offenses and defences right from the get-go. Today, we're going to walk you through a few of those must-know chess board setup hacks and give you that strategic edge before ever even making the very first move. Section 1: The Nitty-gritty About Chess Board Setup Let's get the very basics right before we dive into some somewhat advanced hacks. The chess board contains 64 squares, laid in an 8x8 grid, alternating in black and white. Always remember that "White on the right," i.e., from your perspective, the bottom-right square of the board should be white. Now for the pieces: Pawns go on the second row (or rank) for each player. Th...

Antarctica From Space: A Frozen Continent Unveiled Earth's southernmost continent is Antarctica – a place of extremes: really cold, vast ice sheets, and an almost otherworldly landscape that still remains largely untouched by human activity. Still, if one wants to see the immensity and complexity of the continent, then it makes a lot of sense to look at it from further back – thousands of miles back, that is in space. From orbit, Antarctica looks like just a simply mesmerizing, almost surreal view. An area of white, set against the deep blues of the Southern Ocean, its appearance from  space gives scientists and space agencies tremendous amounts of information regarding the climate, ice systems, and ecosystems of our planet. From satellite imagery, researchers can study changes in the ice sheets, see what is happening due to global warming, and observe sea-level rise with the accuracy that ground-based methods just cannot measure. Ice sheets and ice caps on the continent About 90 ...