Very quick BOAFP calculation suggests to me that with death and emigration, Russia must have lost around 2-4% of its working-age men. (View Post)

But you put it more eloquently :smile: (View Post)

I reject that proposal. What's the point of a politics or betting bulletin board in which we refuse to speculate? (View Post)

Well the pieces can only move in a two-dimensional plane, apart from, arguably, the knights. And computer chess is not 3 dimensional. But an enjoyable bit of pedantry nonetheless. Nicely done. (View Post)

Whoever upthread suggested over history the Chinese empire is 'more sinned against than sinning' is breathtakingly wrong. For thousands of years they have dished out brutality on the scale … (View Post)