Currently working tell early in the morning and the office is dead. Was wondering if anyone had good suggestions for relaxing and free computer games? Im sick of playing online poker and chess.
Question by mowsbad: How to disable a shutdown timer?
Im using windows xp but everytime my computer logs in the timer says that its going to shutdown in a horrible 1 sec. I can’t run command prompt so I have no way to abort the timer. The only way could be to reset my system and lose my files and chess games altogether.
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Answer by Kristofer
If it is caused by a prank program, then the writer sucks at coding, so it would probably be easy for a tech savy person to find, in the various startup places.
Try booting in safe mode. Which you can do by pressing a key at the bios screen. Try the F8 key, that is usually it. When in safe mode, you can try to figure out why shutdown.exe is running on startup.
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Question by mowsbad: How to disable a shutdown timer?
Im using windows xp but everytime my computer logs in the timer says that its going to shutdown in a horrible 1 sec. I can’t run command prompt so I have no way to abort the timer. The only way could be to reset my system and lose my files and chess games altogether.
Best answer:
Answer by Kristofer
If it is caused by a prank program, then the writer sucks at coding, so it would probably be easy for a tech savy person to find, in the various startup places.
Try booting in safe mode. Which you can do by pressing a key at the bios screen. Try the F8 key, that is usually it. When in safe mode, you can try to figure out why shutdown.exe is running on startup.
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Question by My Name: Best place to play chess online?
I enjoy playing chess, and prefer to play against other people rather then the computer. I have a chess.com account but find the nonstop popups and constant pushing to pay annoying, also there is a chat bar on the bottom of the site I cannot get rid of.
Is there a good online chess site with no popups, no myspace style chat that alows yo to set the games pace (one move per day or 3 days) as I make my moves in the morning before work but dont spend a lot of time online
I’m looking for a chess only site not a game site
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Answer by Mark
one move per day?
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I am studying Visual Basic 9. In the past, I know most real coding was done in C, but today the only difference between C and VB is the syntax.
I have been programming games, and so far, my method has been to define all possible move combinations, using a very long list of Elseif having it first look for moves where it would win, next look for moves where the user would win, then work it’s way down to free moves, which I use multiple lists for that with random values to make it not so predictable.
That method seems to work great, but I don’t consider it true AI, and it is very time consuming, especially now that my games are getting more complicated.
What I need is a shorter way of doing it. Ideally, I’d like a method where the program figures out for itself ideal combinations, a learning AI, but any online guides or downloadable books that will teach me simpler methods of programming AI in Visual Basic .NET is what I need.
For example, Chess AI. I can’t imagine that it is ever done the way I do it. But I can’t find any simple tutorials explaining how it is done. I don’t want source code, copies of someone else’s work, I want to learn how to do it myself, even if someone else’s work would be better, the point is to learn.
Any information would be helpful. But I’d like to find a way to do what I want in Visual Basic .NET and VB .NET only. (I don’t know any other languages at this time.)
Thanks.
I am not looking for methods of AI for an existing program, rather for new more complicated programs.
Even if it is not chess AI, some examples of AI methods would be useful.
I have seen allot of books on the shelf, too many, and most of them are so long and drawn out without actually getting into anything serious. I learn by doing and don’t really internalize it if I don’t do a bit here and a bit there and gradually move into it.
I would still rather a website because I don’t live near a bookstore. I can’t exactly flip through the pages online to see if it has what I need, so a suggestion would also be helpful.
I am an ok chess player. this year my school started a chess club and had a tounament to find the best 10 chess players in the school and i won all of my games. My school is versing another school that is really good. I have no one to play with and im sick of playing against the computer. can someone please tell me a good online chess game where i can play with real people. i would prefer a chat box so i can ask better players for tips and help.
I learned about the Sicilian Defense nazjdorf yesterday and i really liked it. Now can what can i do if someone uses it against me? is there an opening that counterattacks it?
Question by michellegirl4: internet chess?
when you fisrt get ur computer u have games such at
internet chess checkers ETC
well how can i get mine back? can u give me the site? pleas
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Answer by AbatedDust
http://games.yahoo.com/games/front has alot of great online games including Chess, Checkers, and alot of others.
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