Chris's Journal

Two days ago I bought Chessmaster Live on Xbox Live Arcade. And although I enjoy playing chess, I'm terrible at it. So remembering back to a documentary about Deep Blue I saw and my personal experience playing computers I realized I could possibly do better by downloading program and having a computer give me an advice on what my moves should be. The first program had bugs and I lost 2/3 games because of them. I downloaded a 2nd program and it works so far. 

Well here's what happened, I got a game with a guy who set it for 30 minutes (we both had 30 minutes). I waited a while and then he messaged me,

Him: Could you resign?

To which I responded,

Me: How about no.

I guess he thought I didn't get the first message so he sent a second,

Him: Could you resign cause I don't want to play a pushover. (His ELO 1100, mine 561)

Well that's not very nice, I guess he got my first message, his response which wasn't any better,

Him: Okay then get ready to get raped!

Now it's on. It's give and take for awhile and my time is getting less and less (I have to move on the computer, wait for the computer, then move on the game). At about 3 minutes the computer had a plan, then with 2:20 left in the game he resigned knowing that his next move would be checkmate. It was glorious.

location: Welland

mood: indescribable

music: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas- Carpenters

OKAY TODAY I BEAT HALO 3! 1000/1000 GS! This all started a few days ago. Last week Bungie added a new play list so there was Swords on Lone Wolf. After at least 30 games I started wondering, "where are the swords matches" the only two I had were: 

1. Lagged Out Immediately
2. Vetoed

Just after I thought this I got swords and low and behold I got my Steppin' Razor achievement! So I started playing back at 100%. Then I believe we got another Swords match but the IDOITS VETOED IT! I was furious! "YOUR ALL GONNA DIE!" I killed a guy at the start as he came at me with a shotty and all hell broke loose! Before I know it I get my Killing Frenzy. So today I play game after game looking for that elusive Overkill. Finally it came. I was playing another shitty game of Slayer on Guardian. So I jump down to the elevator and toss grenades. Boom one guy goes up! I back pedal tossing grenades I just picked up at another guy! Double Kill! A third guy runs at me, I toss another grenade and by some miricle it blows up seconds after another one right beside him, giving me the kill! TRIPLE KILL! Now unbeknownst to me a grenade flew in and blew my old corpse down a hole. Anyway I look for another kill! I WANT THIS ACHIEVEMENT! I notice my radar show a guy coming in from the center! I also see he has a SHOTGUN! "O god" I think, "I'm f**ked!" Then (again unbeknownst to me) my corpse flys up the elevator and into the guy! He mistakes it for a live player and shoots it. As this happens I'm putting rounds into him with my AR and since he wasted the round (and it takes a second to fire a second round), I smash him with my rifle! OVERKILL! I call it the "Miricle at Guardian" I have all three of these on video. 
After that I just play the last 3 campaign levels with scoring and I'm done. I WILL NEVER PLAY LONE WOLF AGAIN!

Finally I ordered Mass Effect Limited Edition! Hopefully it'll be here tomorrow or Tuesday! 

Beat Halo 3 1000/1000 the day before Mass Effect's released! Fate? You Decide!