Will the price of Gas and Rice effect your Chess Purchases?

[Tord Romstad]

This remember me the history of that bibliophile that had his house full of books, from top to bottom, in such a way he could not use his chairs and any kind of furniture, all of them under books, piles of books. No room for nothing.
One day, he tell, he arrived home and he realized in a sudden that that was an impossible situation. He could not live that way. He should do something, he thought.
So the other day he sold the furniture

That's probably going to happen to me some day, too. At the rate I am buying books, it's not going to take long before I run out of space for anything else. Fortunately, I hardly ever buy anything else. Food, wine, books and musical instruments are the only things in life worth paying for.

The price of gas and rice is obviously not going to affect my chess purchases. I hate chess so much that I wrote a chess program to save me from doing the tedious work of playing and studying chess myself. There is no way I am ever going to spend money on chess.

Actually, the changes in the world economy make life cheaper for me than it used to be. Because the dollar is now worth almost nothing, I can get books essentially free from Amazon.


Tord

[AdminX]

This remember me the history of that bibliophile that had his house full of books, from top to bottom, in such a way he could not use his chairs and any kind of furniture, all of them under books, piles of books. No room for nothing.
One day, he tell, he arrived home and he realized in a sudden that that was an impossible situation. He could not live that way. He should do something, he thought.
So the other day he sold the furniture

That's probably going to happen to me some day, too. At the rate I am buying books, it's not going to take long before I run out of space for anything else. Fortunately, I hardly ever buy anything else. Food, wine, books and musical instruments are the only things in life worth paying for.

The price of gas and rice is obviously not going to affect my chess purchases. I hate chess so much that I wrote a chess program to save me from doing the tedious work of playing and studying chess myself. There is no way I am ever going to spend money on chess.

Actually, the changes in the world economy make life cheaper for me than it used to be. Because the dollar is now worth almost nothing, I can get books essentially free from Amazon.


Tord

Well, I just bought the Amazon Kindle eReader. Hope to do nothing but ebooks from now forward. I no longer have any books shelf space left at home. It holds about 200 books with no memory installed, with memory card installed it holds even more.

[fern]

"Food, wine, books and musical instruments are the only things in life worth paying for..."
Man, you are my kind of person. Perhaps I would add women...
I have already around 3000 books and growing, but also a house of three stores, so no problem at all. I can have here 50k without problem. Probably I will die before that.-
BTW,. I told you here that I could test your last engine with my style of just personally play the thing, but you did not answer.
May I, now, from a bibliophile to another, have an answer?

a hug
Fernando

[Tord Romstad]

"Food, wine, books and musical instruments are the only things in life worth paying for..."
Man, you are my kind of person. Perhaps I would add women...

I can't claim to always have been lucky with women, but at least I've been lucky enough never to have to pay for them -- unless you count expenses like food, wine and music to enjoy in their company.

I have already around 3000 books and growing, but also a house of three stores, so no problem at all.

Still less than 1000 books here, I think, but with an apartment of only 35 square meters, it's already becoming a problem.

BTW,. I told you here that I could test your last engine with my style of just personally play the thing, but you did not answer.

Actually, I did answer, but you seem to be so busy with your books that you don't take time to read your personal messages on this board. I see that my message to you is still in my "Outbox", which I suppose means that it has never been read. If you can't read your messages here for some technical reason, please give me an e-mail address, and I will write to you.

Tord

[fern]

Personal mails? I did not even know such a thing existed. My personal mail is: ferdinanvd@gmail.com.
Boy, I live in the moon almost all the time.
AAhhh, two minutes ago I sent to my editor the last version of my next book, entitled "Brief Cartography and Binnacle of Drinking".
It will be published in July.
A hug
(Did you see what I wrote "a propos" of Glaurung in Hiarcs site?)
Fernando