Chess is as much about finding the best move as it is about managing your available time, but does going ‘into the tank’ actually result in a better move? In this article I try to make sense of hundreds of thousands of moves, and learn a thing or two about continuous variables in the process.

I am currently researching if people who ask for both excessive reassurance and negative feedback from their environment have higher levels of depressive symptoms. This project is part of a bigger study on depression, anxiety and ambiguous social situations done by Vos et al.

Magic: The Gathering has been around since 1993, making it the first collectible card game ever created. This article explores how it’s cards got progressively stronger over the years, in a process known as powercreep. I also look at some interesting scientific literature about the ‘strength’ of cards in CCG’s.