BorgQueen
Brad
Adelaide, Australia 
Member Since: Aug 11, 2008
Last Login: Nov 8, 2009
Profile Views: 6322
Points: 4203
Status: Being a "Smilie Junkie"! (16 days ago)
Birthday: Oct 7, 1966
Occupation: Software Developer
About Me:
I've played chess from age 14 in a club. That was nearly 30 years ago, well before the time of the Internet. I gave it up when I got into the levels where memorising 2394798792873 opening moves was critical and I was losing too many games because of my reluctance to become more of a database than a human player.
Trying to get back into it now again, after 15 years of not playing, I am as rusty as anything, but can still offer a reasonable challenge to good players... unless I stuff the opening up... I still refuse to memorise too many moves in openings -- that's not chess to me! Thankfully, Online Chess (my favorite brand of chess here at chess.com) allows me to use opening books!
I absolutely LOVE tactics training. I learned to play chess largely from "sparring" with a friend and by reading puzzle books on chess tactics. The online ones are just awesome and I spend quite a bit of time trying to solve the seemingly endless puzzles!
I don't play a lot of Live Chess here yet, but I probably will, I enjoy Live Chess, but because of my busy lifestyle, I find it hard to get uninterrupted time to just sit and play a few games.
I play Vote Chess, but I still think the alert system needs to remind me to vote if I haven't done so, as I tend to delay voting until others have discussed the move. But then if no-one talks, I forget to vote completely.
I play OTB for the Modbury Chess Club, based in South Australia and I enjoy it a lot, even though I find myself making silly mistakes due to either time pressure (thanks to online chess 
) or just totally blundering an opening! I have an ACF (Australian Chess Federation) rating of 1618. I have no idea what that is in FIDE 
I am a Sci Fi fan, primarily with:
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Stargate (SG1, Atlantis and Universe)
- X-Files
- Battlestar Galactica (new).
- Many more of course!
There are many more I have enjoyed, and still do when I find the time and opportunity, but these are my current favorites. If you are interested in sci-fi too, then by all means, consider joining my group, Borg Collective. I'd love to see you there and have a chat about your favorite sci fi show/film/book/whatever 
I'm friendly and easy to get along with, so if you want to drop me a note or a message, by all means, please do! I'll forward it on as spam and report you! No, just kidding! lol I have a keen sense of humour too, so don't take everything I say as literal
I am also currently one of the superadmins of Team Australia. If you are an Aussie and want to play for Australia in the World League, please join up. We need all the members we can get!