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quisalan and R I have had my interest in chess renewed. I used to play when I was younger and was even in the school chess club (yeah, geek points for that one - I was in the school maths team too). I hadn't really played much for ages though but recently Quis and R have bought a chess seet and playing and I've been watching and occasionally giving advice and occasionally playing. Funnily I'd actually downloaded a chess game from XBox live arcade that I played on a bit last night. I'd forgotten how fun it is. And the xbox one is quite good because it implements chess clocks with 10 minutes each whcih means that your games are rather quick and don't draw out too much. Given how fast computers probably actually decide their next move these days I wonder how they decide how much time the computer is going to take to make its move. and indeed how they do different difficulty levels...
But yeah, a random aside to say I've played some chess recently and its quite fun. That maybe because I keep winning. If I had to think more it might stop being as fun... :)
quisalan and R I have had my interest in chess renewed. I used to play when I was younger and was even in the school chess club (yeah, geek points for that one - I was in the school maths team too). I hadn't really played much for ages though but recently Quis and R have bought a chess seet and playing and I've been watching and occasionally giving advice and occasionally playing. Funnily I'd actually downloaded a chess game from XBox live arcade that I played on a bit last night. I'd forgotten how fun it is. And the xbox one is quite good because it implements chess clocks with 10 minutes each whcih means that your games are rather quick and don't draw out too much. Given how fast computers probably actually decide their next move these days I wonder how they decide how much time the computer is going to take to make its move. and indeed how they do different difficulty levels...But yeah, a random aside to say I've played some chess recently and its quite fun. That maybe because I keep winning. If I had to think more it might stop being as fun... :)