Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Fri Jul 5 03:23:49 CDT 2013
Hi Jim -- Thank you for your reply. Yes, there were times people played chess here even in the parks and every kid (at least from my friends circle when I was a kid) did know how to play chess. That times are gone. Probably forever. My son does not have any chess category and nor I nor him have currently any plans on getting high level chess ranks. I just wanted to present him a good chess book for his birthday. Thank you for your friend's web links. BTW, the first one is for the St.Petersburg city, which is located in United States :) -- Shamil Thursday, July 4, 2013 6:19 PM -07:00 from "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>: >Hi Shamil: > >I personally am no expert, just an enthusiast. OTOH, I have a good friend >who is just/was shy of an level one master; expert level. (I just happen to >be on the line with the fellow...) > >He said that the Russians should be the people to know the proper >books...their libraries should be full of such books, for every age. Don't >the Russian teach chess in school? He says he used to play chess with some >friend in Petersburg over the internet, some twenty years ago. > >He just said, "Ask him if he knows his son's category or his rating if he >has one?" > >He sent me this link: http://www.stpetersburgchessclub.com/ and here is >another link he sent: http://www.bs-chess.com/latin/clubs/spb/spbclubs.html > >HTH >Jim > >-----Original Message----- >From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Salakhetdinov >Shamil >Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 2:11 PM >To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBA Field Names - Curiosity Question > > Hi Arthur -- > >What books about chess do you read? >I'd like to start playing chess regularly with my son - he has his birthday >on 7-th on July and I may try to gift him at least one of the books you >read, first in Russian translation if I will find one here, and then English >ones ordered from Amazon (it will take a while for them to get delivered >here)... > >Thank you. > >-- Shamil > >Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:57 PM -04:00 from Arthur Fuller >< fuller.artful at gmail.com >: >>You're quite right and I shall try to convert some of my code into classes >>rather than static functions. I'll reply in a day with how it went. Now >>that I'm 65 and semi-retired, I'll have to resurrect some old code to >>verify your thesis, but even at age 65 I am willing to learn. As my best >>friend has frequently said. the best defense against Alzheimer's is to >>continue thinking. So now that I am retired, I am reading the two greatest >>books about chess written in the 20th century. It takes me about a week per >>chapter, but I have noticed dramatic improvements in my local game, in a >>park nearby, lots of Russians and Czechs and Germans and Dutch -- and >>that's why I love my city Toronto. It's not about chess, it's not about >>language or culture. In this city we deal with 190+ languages in our public >>schools. That is one take on us. Another is that I could visit a restaurant >>every night of the year and hit a different ethnicity. I just visited an >>Afgani restaurant for the first time, and it was wonderful. Two blocks away >>is a real Mexican restaurant (as opposed to Tex-Mex, which is ok but not >>authentic. My memory is failing me right now, but I'm recalling a baked >fish >> >> >>On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Charlotte Foust >>< charlotte.foust at gmail.com >wrote: >> >>> Arthur, >>> >>> Why do you find classes more complicated than static functions? You >could >>> do precisely the same thing with a class, either an individual class for >>> the value or a globals class to hold all the values, or both. >>> >>> Charlotte >>> <<< skipped >>> >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >-- >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Салахетдинов Шамиль