23
Jul
'04
23 July 2004 @ 11:34 pm by navan
Why does one chess player play better than another? The answer is not that the one who plays better makes fewer mistakes. The one who plays better makes more mistakes, by which I mean more imaginative mistakes. He sees more ridiculous alternatives. The mark of a great player is exactly that he thinks of something which by all known norms of the game is an error.
Jacob Brunowski
19
Jul
'04
19 July 2004 @ 9:57 pm by navan
A travelogue by someone who visited India. I did not read everything. The answer to Why Indian culture? seems honest, instead of the usual, ancient, deep, extensive blah blah.
9
Jul
'04
9 July 2004 @ 11:04 pm by navan
In Windows XP SP 2 Internet Explorer is coming out with a pop-up blocker. I wish they had added tabbed browsing too.
7
Jul
'04
7 July 2004 @ 9:45 pm by navan