(04-01-2019, 05:28 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Something that is really starting to annoy me is the realization that my chess ability is limited. I'm playing an online computer program which has 10 levels, I've reached level 6, and the computer has kicked my [BLEEP] about 30 times in a row and I don't seem to be getting any better. This thing throws combinations at me that I don't see coming. It'll sacrifice a piece and let me think I'm winning, and yet it still beats me. And I'll go back and try to replay using various different lines, and there's no way out of getting checkmated. It's really disheartening.
Well, the beauty of the game
is the complexity, but if you really want to improve try notating the game, then going back and replaying from the opening. Alternatively, try playing two games simultaneously, one as black and one as white. Copy the computer's white opening move as your white and take the second game's (black) move back as your black move. Now you have the computer playing itself. Watch and learn.
(04-01-2019, 09:38 PM)Sneakers Wrote: [ -> ] (04-01-2019, 05:28 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Something that is really starting to annoy me is the realization that my chess ability is limited. I'm playing an online computer program which has 10 levels, I've reached level 6, and the computer has kicked my [BLEEP] about 30 times in a row and I don't seem to be getting any better. This thing throws combinations at me that I don't see coming. It'll sacrifice a piece and let me think I'm winning, and yet it still beats me. And I'll go back and try to replay using various different lines, and there's no way out of getting checkmated. It's really disheartening.
Well, the beauty of the game is the complexity, but if you really want to improve try notating the game, then going back and replaying from the opening. Alternatively, try playing two games simultaneously, one as black and one as white. Copy the computer's white opening move as your white and take the second game's (black) move back as your black move. Now you have the computer playing itself. Watch and learn.
Yes, I know, it's at the point where, in order to improve, I will have to work at it. It's sort of like my golf game. I got better to a point, and then, I had to work harder and harder to improve more and more slowly until I settled into a constant 10 over par level with the occasional sub-80 round. And that's what tells me, my ability is limited. I still love it, though. It's very addictive.
(03-30-2019, 08:20 AM)PF* Wrote: [ -> ]People who don't tighten the cap on the ketchup bottles, the pickle jar/the U-name it jar and when you pick it up, well, you know what happens.
Also, the people who don't rotate grocery items, putting the new stuff in front of the old stuff. Unforgivable.
The people who don't put things back in the same place after using them, often the same people indicted in the Ketchup Affair or the re-stocking incidents cited above.
We all know who these people are.
Having worked in grocery stores in the past, always get weird looks from the stock clerks when they catch me 'facing up' items after I put groceries in the cart. I guess disordered shelves are my trivial annoyance.
(03-30-2019, 11:15 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ] (03-30-2019, 09:48 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: [ -> ]Ah, but it's correctly alphabetical!
I spell cat C-A-T. If it was spelled in alphabetical order, it would be A-C-T. My pets are not acts, like in a play. They're real cats, C-A-T. You're being silly.
truth comes out, J-Dub was just biscuit's alterego. You're too good at this.
(04-02-2019, 12:19 PM)Mikey Wrote: [ -> ] (03-30-2019, 08:20 AM)PF* Wrote: [ -> ]People who don't tighten the cap on the ketchup bottles, the pickle jar/the U-name it jar and when you pick it up, well, you know what happens.
Also, the people who don't rotate grocery items, putting the new stuff in front of the old stuff. Unforgivable.
The people who don't put things back in the same place after using them, often the same people indicted in the Ketchup Affair or the re-stocking incidents cited above.
We all know who these people are.
Having worked in grocery stores in the past, always get weird looks from the stock clerks when they catch me 'facing up' items after I put groceries in the cart. I guess disordered shelves are my trivial annoyance.
(03-30-2019, 11:15 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]I spell cat C-A-T. If it was spelled in alphabetical order, it would be A-C-T. My pets are not acts, like in a play. They're real cats, C-A-T. You're being silly.
truth comes out, J-Dub was just biscuit's alterego. You're too good at this.
Perhaps it’s the other way around.
This guy that sits in front of me in our new 'open' work environment is quite possibly one of the most annoying individuals that I have to deal with. And I'm facing him every day for eight or nine hours.
(04-05-2019, 09:57 AM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]This guy that sits in front of me in our new 'open' work environment is quite possibly one of the most annoying individuals that I have to deal with. And I'm facing him every day for eight or nine hours.
Buy a big plant for your desk!
(04-05-2019, 11:59 AM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-05-2019, 09:57 AM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]This guy that sits in front of me in our new 'open' work environment is quite possibly one of the most annoying individuals that I have to deal with. And I'm facing him every day for eight or nine hours.
Buy a big plant for your desk!
You obviously don't understand 'open work environment'. We are basically at long tables, with no walls in between and barely enough room for my monitors and keyboard. All of the personal items that I used to have on my desk will no longer fit. I won't even get into the fact that the furniture is just a piece of [BLEEP] and really cheap. Well, I guess I just did. And the chairs are incredibly uncomfortable...and here's that word again...cheap. But hey...that's the way the home office of the new owners does it in Mexico so it's good enough for us.
Besides the fact that it sucks....it sucks.
(04-02-2019, 09:52 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ] (04-01-2019, 09:38 PM)Sneakers Wrote: [ -> ]Well, the beauty of the game is the complexity, but if you really want to improve try notating the game, then going back and replaying from the opening. Alternatively, try playing two games simultaneously, one as black and one as white. Copy the computer's white opening move as your white and take the second game's (black) move back as your black move. Now you have the computer playing itself. Watch and learn.
Yes, I know, it's at the point where, in order to improve, I will have to work at it. It's sort of like my golf game. I got better to a point, and then, I had to work harder and harder to improve more and more slowly until I settled into a constant 10 over par level with the occasional sub-80 round. And that's what tells me, my ability is limited. I still love it, though. It's very addictive.
Have you ever tried playing in a competitive format, like a USCF event? Good place/way to learn and it forces you to be more disciplined about your play.
(04-05-2019, 07:45 PM)Sneakers Wrote: [ -> ] (04-02-2019, 09:52 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, I know, it's at the point where, in order to improve, I will have to work at it. It's sort of like my golf game. I got better to a point, and then, I had to work harder and harder to improve more and more slowly until I settled into a constant 10 over par level with the occasional sub-80 round. And that's what tells me, my ability is limited. I still love it, though. It's very addictive.
Have you ever tried playing in a competitive format, like a USCF event? Good place/way to learn and it forces you to be more disciplined about your play.
That's probably a good idea. I tend to have letdowns against the computer, probably because I can always just resign and start another game. I beat it the other day on level 6, but it was after I drank an energy drink, so I was pretty wired. Computers don't lose focus, they play at a consistent level, and they are very good at refuting a sloppy or unsound attack. It's hard to beat a computer when your mind is lazy and undisciplined like mine is.
When you buy one or two items at the store and the receipt is almost 3ft long. Printing the receipt takes almost as long as the transaction. Can I get a separate bag for the receipt?
That’s precisely where I was at.
(04-19-2019, 09:58 AM)Jags Wrote: [ -> ]That’s precisely where I was at.
You still get receipts?? I don't think I've got a receipt for something for about 3 years!
(04-19-2019, 05:06 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ] (04-19-2019, 04:17 PM)DarloJAG84 Wrote: [ -> ]You still get receipts?? I don't think I've got a receipt for something for about 3 years!
No receipts in England?
Most things I purchase are under £30 so I go 'contactless' with that you don't get a receipt as standard (just a notification on your phone if you use Apple/Google Pay).
Other than that, I turn down the offer of a receipt unless it's a purchase I may need to return.. What I mean is that generally, most places I buy things you have to actually request a receipt if you want one.
(04-19-2019, 05:22 PM)DarloJAG84 Wrote: [ -> ] (04-19-2019, 05:06 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]No receipts in England?
Most things I purchase are under £30 so I go 'contactless' with that you don't get a receipt as standard (just a notification on your phone if you use Apple/Google Pay).
Other than that, I turn down the offer of a receipt unless it's a purchase I may need to return.. What I mean is that generally, most places I buy things you have to actually request a receipt if you want one.
We're headed that direction here but the place brought up here prints coupons on their receipts and there's no option to decline.
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