Vista stinks. It really does. There was this app I wanted to put on my computer, WinBoard. It allows you to analyze chess games, and it comes with Bobby Fischer's 60 most memorable games, part of a book I had as a kid. It went out of print long ago.
So I tried to install it a year ago and phphphpllt. No dice. The installer upgraded, though, and so I was browsing through the games. I haven't played in a while, mainly because I tended to get into boring positions where my opponent got more bored than I did, and I could snatch out a win.
But looking at Fischer's games I was analyzing, and looking for aggressive stuff, and assuming both players could play actively. I've been more aggressive about other things, but it manifested itself in how I saw the games. My intuition hasn't gotten any better, but instead of "I guess an attacking player would play X, but I'm not one," I was able to poke at a lot of the side lines that didn't work, or see pretty quickly what the multiple threats in a move were.
It's asking more than 1 pawn and a cloud of exchanges, and I liked the feeling. I have too much to do to get back to chess, but I know if I do it'll be as I want it to be--interesting and full of ideas instead of just playing too safely and figuring I better be happy sticking with what I know.
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Halon - May 09, 2008 (07:27 AM) I haven't had too many problems with Vista yet and I'm running the 64-bit version. For the most part compatibility mode works pretty well, but I'm still using my old XP machine for most applications. But Vista is pretty much useless. Nicer interface than XP and the new protection stuff is pretty good for idiots who mess up their computers, but it's only really worth it if you need DirectX 10 for games. |
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