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OK. Let's talk about something, as usual. Well, I may have to start with the issue of summer time. It is not actually `summer time' in the place where I am, but anyway it has ended without my noticing it (oops, you may be able to research where I am). Hmm. It looks reasonable to slide clock for one hour so that one can have longer active times, but resetting mind and getting familiar to a new difference in time can be annoying. There seem existing reasons on both sides, pros and cons.

I didn't write an entry for this blog yesterday. I didn't feel guilty at all, it might be because I was actually skipping many days without writing at all, but, well, since the ritual of rebirth has been successful, I may want to sing a new song.

But, as one may notice, I do not have definite topics to write. And the point of having a blog may turn out to after all be trying writing anything anyway. Hmm. Interesting. OK, let's try keeping. Although I currently do not feel much joy in writing, as my writing skills improve and I feel comfortable to write, I may try curious expressions and try to ascend to poesy.

A little bit about my recent hobby: chess. Because of a lucky coincidence, I found a -- actually it was not `a', but anyway -- nice chess box here and I bought, and I found a chess online site and started training playing. I actually had to know the basic rules of chess, because I didn't know, or I was not completely knowledgeable. I did not like games like chess, especially Shogi, the Japanese version of chess, thinking there is no point for humans to play those games in the age where humans are easily defeated by computers. Chess was the first game on which a news like that was reported drastically. Strategic games need probability, that was my belief. Well, but you know, we must remember that we can think the point of those games lies in fights between humans, computers are those which compute, and computers may be good trainers but we don't have to pay efforts especially in order to defeat them. I actually felt good when playing against humans. Huh. It after all is a game between you and me. You may just be a beginner, so may I be. But battles of `wits' between us can be amusing among us. Isn't it enough for us? If yes, that can be the whole thing. Chess, among us, can be a good field where we compete using our computing abilities, which must be inferior to those of computers, but who cares. If we, the competitors, do not care, actually no one care. Chess can be a good game, especially recently.