Salakhetdinov Shamil
mcp2004 at mail.ru
Thu Jul 4 16:11:09 CDT 2013
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 >>>