Technology and Chess day!

The geek has come out to play big time today.
Bought Annie a video camera (with free DVD player) for our wedding anniversary yesterday!!
Of course I'm the one who has been playing with it.  Had to go buy a Memory Stick so I could get the still photo bit working, and the MPEG short video.  Got it working but the quality is crap.  I'll have to fiddle a bit.
Also installed a wireless network, at home, finally, so I'm tapping away in the lounge.
I'd better secure this network down in a few minutes!!

And finally, unbeknown to that punk Cameron, I'm a closet chess player, but I haven't been out of the closet for decades, so I'd better get some practise in before I put in the challenge.
Fascinating reading about Bobby Fischer again, having a look at the game Cameron linked to, and finding another game Fischer played.  Amazing.  He seems to be able to see over 10 moves ahead with several variations.  I suspect that some players can see a theme in a position and use instinct, and others are calculating every option 5+ moves ahead.

Damn it, I'm getting addicted again.  If I were on a Desert Island it would be a PC with a chess programme for me.  If I had nothing left, and lost everything, going into deep depression, I'd go to Central Park, New York, and bum around, playing chess there!! That's how deep my chess cuts.

Comments

[Cameron]

well don't just talk about it beaaaatch! Go to playchess.com and sign up for some of ma online ass-kickin! Or buy Fritz 8, and the membership to Playchess comes free. Oh, and there isn't any chess played in Central Park (there are a couple of boards but they never seem to be busy). The park chess in NYC you see on TV is usually played in Washington Square Park (http://photos.nevill-manning.com/c/p?o=39&q=nyc&c=main). Once a year or so I am hit with this overwhelming desire to quit my job and just study chess fulltime for a couple of years... when i go through this phase I normally start re-reading some of my chess books and I buy lots of new software... then the feeling passes for another year....