Returning to chess

Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Sacha Chua

I’ve missed playing chess. The chess books I’ve had since grade school
are still on the bookshelves, waiting to be dusted off and re-read.
I’m a little embarrassed about taking chess up again. I used to be on
the varsity team (not a difficult thing if you’re female) until
training for programming competitions left me with no time to train
for chess competitions. I’m rusty now, though, and embarrassed about
it.

But maybe I should get back into chess. Not the memorize-playbooks
kind of chess that people often play, but chess for the sheer heck of
it. Chess for the joy of anticipating another person’s moves.

Ah. Hmm. But I didn’t like the confrontational nature of it before…

I don’t know. Maybe I’ll take up Scrabble instead. =)

Random Emacs symbol: bbdb/gnus-pop-up-bbdb-buffer – Function: Make the *BBDB* buffer be displayed along with the Gnus windows,

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