h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This just in 1 April,2002
John Engler governor of Michigan just placed the state
on Greenich Mean Time. This means everybody in the state
loses five hours sleep tonight and has to be at work five hours early....April Fool.

Let us try this URL again.
Is this a broken link
http://tatooine.fortunecity.com/falcon/302/index.html
try it and see.

Yes it worked that time. Funny, but you look completely different to how I imagined you. Just took a quick look at the web site - will browse around at my leisure sometime soon.

Yeah, In real life I'm 5'8 with sandy blode hair balding on top.
In my mind I'm 6'4 with thick shaggy black hair. I also have a wooden exterior covered by bark, which even steel tipped shoes can't hurt.
It's part of escaping real life that makes me want to see myself as someone other than myself.

Well, enough about me. See what you think about this inconsequentially small quote from a book on Chess
"The fact remains chess is an almighty sweat.Like love , like music , chess has the power to make men happy...Variously described as a game,an art and a science...it is too serious for a game, to transient for an art, and too useless for a science."
since there are 220 pages in the book hopefully the moderators
won't think I took to big a quote here.

That's an excellent summary of chess. In my experience nobody wants to play me at chess because its too intellectual; too serious. I'm quite a creative person (musically and artistically) so its quite interesting for me to think of it as an art, transient and fleeting as it is. And I'm not too keen on any of the "sciences" so maybe its the uselessness that really appeals to me . This lifelong love of chess is finally starting to make some sense. Who wrote the quotation?

A nineteenth century Grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch was quoted by
David Spanier in his 1984 book "Total Chess". Spannier went on to say that "For most people who play chess(supposedly three million in Britain in the course of a week) It is a relaxation, but proffesional
chess is a sport because it requires both physical stamina and mental effort to succeed." In my own experience I know that once someone
sits down to a tournament game there is nothing relaxing about it. You want to discern your opponents strategy, make the perfect move,and do so using as little time on the clock as possible.
That is different than the social game where no clocks are used and
no scoresheet is kept.
Then there are correspondent games or internet games such as we played which fall somewhere in the middle. I still plan to get down to the h2g2 chess club in a few days. just not right now.

A good friend of mine has been playing serious chess for over six decades. He is turning 98 this week and the Lansing Chess Club is
launching a new tournament in his honor 14 April 2002 so that's where I will be tomorrow. Playing in the "Vandenburg Cup" rather than on line.

sorry - sister bluebird keeps flying away and not checking in. How did it go at the Vandenburg Cup? Hope you did well...

I lost all my games but the real reason I was there was to honor a friend and that went very well. I'm very tired tonight.