thoughts from brian samson

Chess


Checkmate!

When some wonderful person ported GnuChess to the iPhone, I remembered how much I enjoy the game. I started playing again on Chess.com, which has a great slow-paced format that doesn’t require any more attention than you choose. The minimum time limit to make a move is 1 day, so it’s a lot like mail chess, except occasionally when you and your opponent are both online it can move quite a bit faster.

Here’s a link to my first game, where my opponent developed his rook far too early while I was busy setting up mate.

To be fair, the next game I lost just as quickly after some terrible oversight in my opening.

The most recent game I played was a good match where I had a chance to develop a a pawn and a bishop behind enemy lines. I wrote an annotated blog post about it.

So if anyone wants to play, go sign up on chess.com and challange me. My name is samsonasu and I welcome the challenge.

Portobello Steak

Portobello steak
This was supposed to be Valentine’s day, but we got busy and made tacos instead. Portobello slices sauteed with oregano and pepper with grilled Asparagus and half of a huge New York Strip steak. Taken with my new Canon EOS Rebel XTi that I just got today!