strike wolf wrote:Well it's over. me and my gf have officially broken up. I guess I should call her my ex-gf now. Oh well, it was a good relationship while it lasted but it's been pretty obvious to me, especially over the last week that it had gotten as far as it was ever going to get.
Some things just aren't meant to be. Though be glad you don't have the same luck as one of my friends, the last 3 or so girls he has dated turned out to be psycho bitches to one degree or another.
jonesthecurl wrote:I played a lot of chess at one point, and got quite good - I used to regulalrly beat a chess program I had at several levels - but last time I tried to play, I just couldn't get my head around it - I think you need to keep the mental chess muscles toned, and I hadn't.
Hmm. I really haven't been able to grasp going more than 3 or 4 moves in advance which the computer seems to be an expert at. I can more or less grasp what the computer wants to do and am starting to come out with more victories because of it but I can't really get a plan to get the king until there is only a few peices left on the board.
I felt rather stupid in my last game too. I was trying so hard to get a check mate that I failed to notice as I moved my queen right in position to get jumped by a pawn and ended up losing.
I just read the thread and heard chess. In grade three, I was a little less then prodigy in chess. I was beating everyone, including the grade 8's. At the age of 8, I was arguably the best, if not one of the best players in a school of 8 grades. Now im super rusty.
The point at which I became really good at chess was when a guy I worked with started talking about the queen's pawn opening. He thought it was foolproof, I thought not, so we palyed a few games. Then I changed jobs, so we continued the debate by playing one move a day over the phone. This meant that for each move I made, I'd studied a whole day. There was ego, alpha-male, macho, boasting rights involved. A few months later I'd proved my point, and we stopped. After that, my game gradually weakened.
Its all kinda over my head though! US politics have never interested me, being a UK student. I must admit though that I was suprised not to see any threads about the financial crisis. I thought that they would of plagued this forum.
strike wolf wrote:Well it's over. me and my gf have officially broken up. I guess I should call her my ex-gf now. Oh well, it was a good relationship while it lasted but it's been pretty obvious to me, especially over the last week that it had gotten as far as it was ever going to get.
Some things just aren't meant to be. Though be glad you don't have the same luck as one of my friends, the last 3 or so girls he has dated turned out to be psycho bitches to one degree or another.
Yes, I'm glad I have a good enough eye for people to know the potentially crazies.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
This thread hasn't been updated in a while so I thought I would mention something impressive. I know a secret about someone on this site and I'd thought would tell you all what it is in a future post. So be on the lookout.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
