Kim323
Paranormal Maven
For those of you who like chess, and may not know about this feature, I really recommend chess.com's online chess computer. I'm no patzer by any means, but to say I was within even light years of being a grandmaster would get me laughed out of the building. When I taught elementary school, before teaching high school for many years, I made chess practically a subject, with the emphasis on fun. Some of those little fourth grade girls frustrated the boys no end with their skill. Anyway, I played chess computers for years, even have my old sensory Chess Challenger from the seventies. It talks. The key thing about them is the absolute relentlessness about them, just ruthless. Never outright blunders. Yahoo, it put its queen right where I could grab it! Forget that. Even Level One on my Challenger is very hard for me to actually beat too much. I recently discovered chess.com, been around a while. You can join for free and even without paying for an upgrade that gives you extra tactics training, the computer is free. To bring this rambling to a blessed end, try it if you like chess. You can set the computer on a variety of levels and then choose it to play several styles: active, passive, solid, etc., even suicidal. But don't expect open obvious blunders that give you pieces free. The mistakes are more subtle, and even the passive level is calculated and relentless. But there is opportunity to exploit, and actually win. I win about forty percent of my games on Level Six, and want to try to work up, but I can already see my fate at higher levels. Very humbling.