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Since this is a new group with not so many memeber yet I thought it would be good to introduce ourselves. I'm from Rio Rancho NM. I earned a BSME but now I work at developing software. People call me a software engineer but I don't know that I really am, I just love writing software. Unfortunately the last software that I actually wrote was more than two years ago. Right now I'm working on SQA documentation, again. I actually changed jobs in April to start developing software using C# and I was excited. They gave me a couple of months to get up to speed since I told them that I'd never done C# programming when they hired me. I was then supposed to help out with a project while a member of our group was on an extended leave taking care of his wife. They liked my "help" so much I got pulled in full time working on cyber security and the SQA on a major software upgrade. Someday soon I hope to develop software again. I really liked the definition of engineers being the connection between art and science. However, I think my artistic ability hovers around 5%.

i am tirso from philippines agricultural engineer

Any one knows c programing here?

This is probably a ramble, but I thought that I'd bring it up. I love thinking that I'm an engineer. I got my BS is Mechanical Engineering, however, I've never really worked as an engineer. In my first contract job I was told that if I really wanted to stay around I should learn to do LabView programming because that is what they really needed. So I downloaded LabView took it home over the weekend and ran through the tutorials came back to work that Monday and hooked up to a thermocouple and WahLah I was a LabView programmer. That 6 month contract streached to 10 years and eventually became a full time position. I didn't stay a LabView programmer, which I wish I was, but I did become a very good process control programmer. I consider it serendipitous the way my career unfolded even though I'm not really an engineer anymore. Sometimes people will call me a software engineer, but I know that that's not really what I am. I'm just a programmer, who loves to make the computer do things I want it to do. Anyway I don't know if my personality was such that I was destined to be an engineer, or that my education has shaped me to be an engineer, but I love to make things work. The really cool thing is that people are willing to pay me to do this. I'm just wondering how others feel about engineering or being an engineer. As a corallary I'm a member of a few groups here that are farily active, but this group is not. It's actually pretty enjoyable to participate in those groups. I think that it would be nice for this group to be more active but it seems like it takes someone, or someones, that work to make it more active. Would anyone else like this group to be more active? The trouble with this group is that we're all probably like me where our jobs, or schooling, is such that we just don't have a lot of spare time. I will not ever play another game that has a 1 day move time. I did that once thinking that since I have a premium membership I would be put on vacation if I couldn't get to the game. However, I found out that if that happens two or more times (I'm not sure how many times it has to happen, or if it is dependent on the game) you will lose the game, but sometimes I just don't have time to get to the computer to play a few moves everyday. But if some of us wanted to use this site as a place where we came to when we came to chess.com we could make this a more active group.

hello there! i well know about the autocad LT 2007 2D diagrams. but i don't know about the 3D drawings. any couching center here don't teach about 3D diagrams. so i look at the manuals from net but it is not enough or suffient to solve my doubt. so if any one at this group know about the AutoCAD 3D well, please let me know. thank you.

Greetings chess friends! Once again in this new post a yet another instructive sampler game on my new pet opening the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. Why play the Hyper Accelerated Dragon? I personally like it because it is a low maintenance opening, unlike the Classical Dragon which demands a lot of theoretical study and updating. The Hyper Accelerated Dragon has quite a crafty move-order that often bust e4 players who wrongly treat it as a regular Classical Dragon. The Yugoslav Attack doesn't really work against the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. Having the Classical Dragon in my repertoire for years I was able to appreciate the potential of the Hyper Accelerated Dragon. I was able to compare black's king safety on both openings and personally concluded that the black king in the Hyper Accelerated Dragon is very much safer because it is not as exposed to immediate attacks early in the opening, especially in the Yugoslav Attack. I also noticed that the play is not so razor sharp which makes the game more on the positional side. This is really good according to many GM's who believes that strategical play is better than route memorization to a learning chess player like myself. So is the Hyper Accelerated Dragon an ultimate defense to 1.e4? After only having played it a few times I have to admit that I am slightly annoyed to reach the Maroczy Bind position (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.c4). I sense that in the Maroczy Bind black's chances to play for a win diminishes quite substantially as compared to the Classical Dragon. But this does not mean the chances to equalise has become futile. Theoretically, black in the Maroczy Bind has already a draw at hand but he must be willing to sit down toiling from a disadvantaged or comparatively difficult position. Black actually has very good chances to win if white over extends himself. The Maroczy Bind positions are very positional and quite dull that most 1.e4 players dont find it attractive to play anyway. And I have to say, since playing the Hyper Accelerated Dragon, it's still a very rare occasion for me to face the Maroczy Bind. In fact, the following game of mine against a 2000+ rated player saw declining the chance to go for a Maroczy Bind. In our previous game he opted for the early 4.Qxd4 and lost (see previous blog post for details). This time he went for the Bc4-Bb3 idea instead and found out that black is still winning. Let's have a look and find out what happened (note sub analysis on the movelist pane for better understanding of the position): As we saw, black seems to be doing OK against the mainline Bc4. We also notice that the endgame is just favourable for black which makes simplification very logical. There you go. I hope that you have learned something from this post and may encourage you to consider this system as part of your repertoire. For relevant reading materials on Dragon systems just click HERE. What do you think?

I started an engineering tournament and thought I'd let the group know in case anyone would like to participate. Here's the link http://www.chess.com/tournament/engineer-tournament