Chess Opening Ruy Lopez opening

Started this game in Ruy Lopez style thats - e4, e5, Nf3, Nc6, Bb5. I liked this opening, attacking as well as defensive. It gives slight advantage to white to capture center sqaures.

Click here to watch the game. Not to mention that it was a long game.

Meditation

One of my friend asked me to write something about meditation. Also got feedback about previous post that it was too heavy to grasp the subject matter. I understand. The topic itself was abstract. No worries if you couldn't grasp my previous post. So, in this post I am writing about meditation.

Meditation is the key. Nothing happens without meditation. All these philosophy are valueless without meditation. Again I would refrain myself from talking philosophy behind meditation. Rather I would concentrate on practical aspect of meditation. Meditation is easy if you are good in Pranayaam. I won't talk about pranayam in this post. The main thing pranayam does is to attain the kumbhak. Kumbhak is state of no breathing. A simple procedure to start meditation could be something like this - Sit in any aasan, comfortably. Close your eyes. Then concentrate on your breaths. Just watch your breaths. After some time breath should calm down. Once breath is calm and you are also relaxed then look at the space between the two eyebrows keeping eyes closed. When you close your eyes we still see something. In yoga it is called "Chidakash". That represents the whole of the creation. So, the meditator should concentrate on the space between two eyebrows. Space between two eyebrows is very important in Yoga. It is usually termed as third eye. Space between two eyebrows is the doorway of Brahman. This is the door from where yogis enter into Brahman. Anything below this is vyakt. Anything above this is ayakt. This is where ayakt and vyakt meet together. This is the point of transition. So, basically meditating at the space between two eyebrows will be very effective. There are many ways to meditate. I just described one which I think is very powerful. In addition to that one can also chant OM while meditating. As and when you progress ahead you may not need to chant even OM. You would automatically hear universal sound OM. In yoga it is called "Naad". You can meditate on that sound also.

Nothing happens much if you meditate for half and hour. But if you meditate for 2 hours continuously many things can happen. Actually, it depends on your current spiritual status. I would suggest to go deep into meditation. But don't go very deep. Very deep meditation can create trouble also. Meditation is like you are diving into ocean of infinite depth. The more you dive in it the more it becomes deep. So, there is chance of drowning in it. The amount of pleasure is so high that you might not want to come out of meditation. Lol. This happens rarely but can happen. So I described two method of mediation- 1. Meditate at the space between two eyebrows, 2. Meditate at OM sound. You can choose any method you like better. :)

A short win

This was the win in the 38th move. Usually I used to win in 70-80 moves. I consider this as one of the my best game. Click here to follow the game.

Abstraction

Simple is beautiful. Abstraction is like an ocean. It has no end. It goes on and on...Abstraction is an aspect of totality. However, you can still treat abstraction as the genesis of the whole creation. It's so abstract that it becomes causal. Abstraction can be basis. So abstract that it become useless. Usefulness is not abstraction. There is no direct use of God that's why God is an abstract concept. So abstract that mind cannot comprehend. If mind can comprehend the abstraction then mind is greater than the abstraction. At some point of time mind has to stop. From there onwards the layers of abstraction starts. To me there is no difference between God and Abstractions. God = Abstraction. God is perhaps the most abstract concept ever created which is still working flawlessly. One of the definition of God in the Hinduism is - Not this Not this. What it means is whatever you see through your eyes, whatever you hear through you ear, whatever you smell through your nose, basically whatever you sense is not God. This is negative abstraction. Keep on negating. Negate to the extent that there is nothing left to negate any more. If something is still left to negate then know that that's not the state of God. That is one kind of abstraction. The another definition says - Everything is God. Sarvam Khalvidam. Now this is positive abstraction. Assimilate that everything is God. And if you think that everything is God except just one atom then know that you don't know God. It has to go to extreme. Either nothing is God or Everything is God. In that extremity of abstraction you find God. That is one reason I said love everybody. Everybody. If you hate even a single person in the entire universe that means you hate the whole of creation itself. Because, that person is part of creation. Whole creation is sustaining him. One of the biggest unfortune of the humanity was the disintegration of sense of belongingness. We think we are separate. We think that we exist as a separate independent entity. That was what society has taught us. And society became full of morons and pervs. Remember one thing whatever ideology and understanding you have is not yours. You are taught to think like that. That's why you think like that. It's not your thinking. It's thinking of society. Society is a strange thing. You can treat society like a human. Society takes birth, society grows and become young, and one day it dies. It may so happen that society doesn't want to survive for some reason. This is what happened with Roman civilization. It got fully extinct. If Roman civilization can extinct then anything can extinct. That I believe.You are taught to think that whatever you think is your thinking. So, that's not your thinking. The point I am trying to make is we all are connected to same source. It's like this - tide might think that he is separated from the ocean. But when tide exist as a separate entity it dies down into the ocean. But the moment tide realizes that I am the ocean itself. Then there is no question of dying. We are exactly like those tides waving the lap of consciousness. But of ego we think that we exist as a separate entity. And that everyone thinks. This is where the root problem comes. Do not slot the existence. Slotting has always created problems. It's all one - it has to be integrated. This is what is the true meaning of Abstraction I am talking in this post. Abstraction means integrated. Abstraction means united entity. Together. We grow together. One person growing and rest all going to grave makes no sense to me. Everybody has to grow together towards the perfection. Because we all are same. Jesus said "I and my father are same". What does it mean? He is simply saying that we all are same. Same existence is everywhere. Be it for Jesus, be it for you. Only difference between you and Jesus is that Jesus know that he and his father are same. But you know that you and your father are not same. But it doesn't affect the existence by any means. The abstract pure nature of existence demands that whole humanity has to grow together. This is what is the constraint to be met for happy humanity. Till today we have not met this constraint. There were many theologians many philosopher. Be it Socrates, Plato, Lao Tse, Arvind, Vivekanand or anyone. No body could ever understand this concept of universal equanamity which demands every individual to be happy. This is the innate nature of whole creation. Because creation is not slotted. It's not digital, it's analogue. This demands every individual to be happy. This is one aspect of abstraction. There are other aspects as well. In fact there are many aspect. It can goes on and on....It won't end. The aspect I described is part of the existence. And is stable. That means some another aspect working parallel is trying to nullify the cause of dissolution of the former aspect. That is why so many people differs in their theology. Because there exists many parallel abstractions. Mind you - it's not one abstraction. At a time there exist many parallel abstraction cooperating themselves in sustaining whole of the existence. Now different people has different power to perceive the abstractions. That is why their ideology differs. Their understanding differs. Still at some point of time it has to be brought under umbrella of single abstraction.

More on abstractions later...

This weekend

Happy Friendship Day

Had a long weekend. 3 days. Fri-Sat-Sun. It was full of coding. Especially for the chat server I am making. Wrote 5 servers in total. Searched on net for any legacy code. Got few codes to play with. It's working now. Multiple users can connect to the chat server. The most important part of socket programming was socket_select and socket_read. I tried both blocking and non-blocking connection. Non-blocking is not recommended as it eats of lots of CPU time. It still however has problems - when transfer is idle for some time say 2-3 minutes. Response after idle time for 2-3 minutes is unpredictable. Server doesn't broadcast the message. Neither it appears to be echoing properly. I am suspecting it's some kind of issue of timeout with client telnet. No fully sure though. May be there is some catch somewhere in the code. Have to look into that.

Secondly, keeping timeout problem apart, I am thoroughly enjoying chatting from telnet. This is the very basic chat and is the fundamental concept being IRC. That's how so many chat protocol have evolved. It worked in windows telnet program, putty, kermit, absolute telnet, wise telnet. I downloaded many telnet programs to make sure that when we press enter it sends LF-CR to the server. This is required by TCP/IP protocol. Hopefully it does. Kermit has option to select CR or LF or LF-CR. I liked kermit.

Thirdly, I also spent a lot time on font for my UNIX. I am looking for Courier New, Font size 12 and bold font applied across Xterm, GVIM and Emacs. Courier New font is available in windows. But, unfortunately it's not available in Linux/Solaris. :(( There are ways to install fonts but that needs superuser account. Wonder why Courier New font is not added in Linux. MS has copyright on it? Meanwhile, I am unhappily managing with Courier-12-bold. Looks good but not as good as if it were Courier New. In case you know how to use courier new font in Linux please care to share.

Again Draw

Again Draw. I made some bad moves in the initial game. Click here to follow the game.

A short draw

This was a draw in the 24th move. Click here to follow the game
I sacrificed on bishop that resulted in draw. There was no way out to win.