Chess.com - good place to learn chess

Chess.com is a good place to start solving chess puzzles and learn chess simultaneouly. Become a member (it is free, if you like) and you will be able to play online chess as well.

Try it out!

Chessing - A new passion

Well, I have taken up to chess as a newly found passion these days (for the past one month) and am studying various techniques.

Chess has become my passion, probably forever, as I did not find any other for the past few years. (And ofcourse, I can now throw some words like Sicilian Defence, Kings Indian Attack, Queen's Gambit etc... to dazzle acquaintances :)).

Chess might interest any of you as well, if it is not of interest already. Please check http://chess.about.com/.

Djinn, Demons & Afrits!!!

Well, I am diversifying a little here from my original technological babble that you usually see. I am so 'into' this now that i could not resist writing a small note to the people who drop-by here.

I was reading a new fiction these days by Jonathan Stroud called 'The Bartemieus Trilogy' and got hooked to it. See the title once again and the subject strikes like a lightning. Yes, it is about those and magicians. Not anything like Harry Potter, though (I am sure this bit would help a lot of folks who despise Harry Potter books).

I, specifically, liked the wit and the plot that makes the book unputdownable. Wit is very subtle and enjoyable. Look for 'Amulet of Samarkand' to start with which is the first in the series.

HNY 2008

A very happy and prosperous New Year 2008 to everyone reading my blogs!

Let us look forward, towards 2008, with renewed enthusiasm and faith.