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Pippin Barr's chess variations and Snap Store maintenance scheduled

Pippin Barr, an experimental game developer and university professor, has released new variations of chess that are considered silly and an assault on the game's dignity. Separately, Canonical's Snap Store is scheduled for database maintenance this weekend, which will cause it to be temporarily unavailable for installations and updates. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two unrelated, low-impact news items: one about game variations of chess and another about software store maintenance. Neither item constitutes significant news.

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Pippin Barr's chess variations and Snap Store maintenance scheduled

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📰 Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr r

    📰 Well, Professor Pippin Barr, you've done it again: you've ruined chess Back in 2019, experimental game developer and actual university professor Pippin Barr released a browser game consisting of eight, very silly variations on chess - a flagrant assault on the dignity... 📰 Sour…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🐧 Snap Store will be down for maintenance this weekend Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance this weekend, meaning users won’t b

    🐧 Snap Store will be down for maintenance this weekend Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance this weekend, meaning users won’t be able to install or update snap software until it’s back online. The planned downtime start... 📰 Source: OMG! Ubuntu 🔗 …