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.