Category Archives: Chess

Brain is starting to hurt!

Yes my brain. Adding more and more opening variations when playing chess makes the brain hurt but it is a good hurt.

A lot like riding my Peloton, when I get on the bike and ride the hurt is a good hurt and I feel so much better when I am done. This month has really sucked exercise wise because of that weekend when I hurt my feet. It has been a couple weeks wait till I feel well enough to get back on and it is hard to get back on that horse (bike). It is so easy for the laziness to creep back in to the routine. I’ll definitely get back in there.

Now it has been two weeks since I have given up on Angie and it feels good. Correction, not good, GREAT! I spent some more money last weekend and purchased another iPad 4 mini for exclusive use of drone flying.

Next edit for this will be picks of all my favorite drones, four of them, the Tello, Spark, Mavic Air and the Mavic Pro Platinum.

Not any phone calls or texts finally

This last week went wonderfully. No phone calls from Angie, Andy, Mary or LeeAnna; no texts nothing. I hope I’m done with all their crap.

Last week was fantastic. I was able to get the DRDI workflows working with only one hiccup but was able to do a search and find the error. It seems that when you create a flow with flow.microsoft.com and you make a change to an action it sometime, not always but sometimes creates a data type error and you need to delete the action and redo the action. The error will then go away. I have not tried this but will shortly.

The new DGT chess board, clock and pieces are fantastic. I wish the SquareOff board was as nice as this is. I also found out what DGT stood for, “Digital Game Technology”. The quality is great of both the board and pieces are great, the clock seems a little cheap only because the brains are based on the raspberry pi and with that board being so small the clock feels like there is nothing there but it works great.

The board also came with a CD with the installation files and a copy of Fritz14 but I was not able to install anything with the CD. My computer does not have a CD reader and the external one I have would not read it. I brought it to work and downloaded all the files to my OneDrive and I will try to load from there when I get home. I’ll try on the Surface Pro 3 here at work first. With this software I should be able to play using the board as an input device and the software will show the moves. Should be able to analyze games and train with this program as well. I think it was $700.00+ well spent. I’m considering purchasing a Bluetooth version of the board as well.