Online chess community where you can play chess, learn strategies and tactics, read chess news, see book reviews, find rules & tips, get free downloads, and more! http://www.chess.com/ 2007 Chess.com i have returned.  unto a limited capacity i devote myself.   chess no longer satisfies.  i apologize to those whom i owed service to.  i express my condolences to those who have worried during my abscence. eventually, sociality does govern a...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/i-dont-know-whyFri, 24 Jul 2009 22:04:29 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/i-dont-know-whyI had a dream the other night.  I was part of a system, an institution.  In this facility we were constantly tested.  Those who tested well were put into accelerated programs.  The normal tests were done in rooms lit with gold lighting.  The ...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/the-dollhouseWed, 08 Apr 2009 23:16:03 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/the-dollhouseever notice how in english the words 'now' and 'know' have a special relationship?   and is comparing the how the two are spoken literally a primer for the pronunciation of the silent 'k' in american english?   or simply a dialectic subtext? http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/none5Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:01:37 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/none5In my lifetime i've played guitar (self-taught) for 12 years, piano for 22 years on and off, and dabbled in every other instrument i can get my hands on, but my 3 favorite guitarists are... in this order  Django Reinhardt, James Hendrix (Paratroo...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/ani-difranco-is-my-goddessThu, 19 Mar 2009 19:21:35 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/ani-difranco-is-my-goddessHello my name is Catherine, and i'm a chessaholic.  i know the consequences of playing too much chess, but never dreamed that motion-sickness could be one of them. Although i will admit that this may be the most fun way to be sick that i've ever...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/chesscom-motion-sicknessMon, 16 Mar 2009 18:59:06 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/chesscom-motion-sicknessan awkward sort of rippling kinda wintry peaking power she looked into the gazes harrowing judgemental sour searing melting melding molding meshing monstrous cowards standing down against the wind and frozen pellet showers of.....      Â...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/audiophileSun, 15 Mar 2009 19:18:43 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/audiophileit's the early morning oranges that seem a little pink.  An ochre kinda pumpkin crowning bluish-gray sort of wink.  an immediate source of windblown tumblewed stationary phallangecal waverings skyward, stretching into dawns newly revealed under...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/dot-dot-dotThu, 12 Mar 2009 04:04:05 -0700http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/dot-dot-dotHey people, I'd just like to give a shout out to republican senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins (the senators from Maine, my home state, the first state to every have two female senators), for crossing party lines on the presidentially propo...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/stimulus-packageTue, 10 Feb 2009 19:12:51 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/stimulus-packageStanding directly between the feet of my obstacle                      staring upward at a mangled patch of hair                                       reeking of the dried soak of itself...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/in-the-shadow-of-the-colossusSat, 07 Feb 2009 19:54:13 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/in-the-shadow-of-the-colossuson a pretty regular basis,   i will be involved in a game.  after submitting my move, i click the green button, as per usual.   suddenly i return to the same screen, move unsubmitted.   no problem whatsoever;  i simply resubmit. i do this...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/glitchSat, 07 Feb 2009 19:30:22 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/glitchso, i'm not positive, but i'm guessing that the stuff that i post in groups is not available to any old soul perusing my homepage.  so apparently i've written some good stuff in the poets and writers group.  i think that you have to join to re...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/groupsWed, 28 Jan 2009 02:05:16 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/groups(everything i am about to write should not be taken seriously) (nothing i am about to write should be taken seriously) something i am writing may be taken orally your mom should not be taken literally please DO NOT take any of this suppositori...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/the-panthyochloric-dynathynatronSun, 25 Jan 2009 23:19:49 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/the-panthyochloric-dynathynatronSo i'm listening to this crazy trio called 'behold the arctopus' that's a strange post-modern thrash-metal psychedelic voyage fronted by a 20 yr old prodigy playing a custom-made eight string bass like it's fretboard is covered with every characte...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/you-will-be-reincarnated-as-an-imperial-space-attack-turtleFri, 16 Jan 2009 22:49:41 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/you-will-be-reincarnated-as-an-imperial-space-attack-turtlei miss phil hartman. u can check out the first 4 seasons of newsradio on hulu.com i miss troy mcclure http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/snlSun, 11 Jan 2009 23:44:54 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/snlI've recently been thumbing through the posts of the more masterful players on this site.  There has been a common thread:  insecurity concerning cheaters! To specifically define cheater: one who uses a programmed synthetic proxy in order to cr...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/but-none-of-them-knew-they-were-robotsSun, 11 Jan 2009 21:47:55 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/but-none-of-them-knew-they-were-robotsSo lately i've noticed a phenomenon in my sleep processes.  It used to be, for the most part, that when coming out of a dream and bridging into consciousness that i would first feel my cognizance as attracted to the earth, slowly followed by the ...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/from-dreaming-to-wakingSun, 11 Jan 2009 16:03:31 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/from-dreaming-to-wakingthe rook is a cross the bishop is an x the queen is a starburst combination of the two the three expand into infinity, harnessed with 8 x 8 the king is a box the knight is a four sided octagon the pawn is a forward line with a potential hype...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/movementsSat, 10 Jan 2009 17:39:28 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/movementsI was wondering.  How many people on this website view each game as a contest, and how many people view each game as an exercise? Is a contestant more careful than an exercist (lol, if it's not a word... it is now)? Are contestants more exalted...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/nappy-yew-hearWed, 07 Jan 2009 16:54:10 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/nappy-yew-hearI've spent the past two weeks of my life doing several things.  The dominant feature of this process has been the movie "Sunshine". I am ultimately fascinated by the cosmic relations that take place ridiculously far away above our heads everyday...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/danny-boyles-quotsunshinequotSun, 04 Jan 2009 15:45:59 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/danny-boyles-quotsunshinequotok, so i'm still plowing through (for the 2nd time) "a thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia" by deleuze and guattari, and i had to share a passage: 'One can form a web of subjectivities only if one possesses a central eye, a black hole...http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/faciality-and-the-lack-of-it-hereSun, 28 Dec 2008 01:57:08 -0800http://blog.chess.com/Catherine-J/faciality-and-the-lack-of-it-here