RobertABrown
Rob Brown
Terrace, BC, Canada 
Member Since: Aug 7, 2007
Last Login: Nov 7, 2009
Profile Views: 5334
Points: 1195
Status: Former Geezer World Champion (6 months ago)
Birthday: Mar 21, 1949
Occupation: Writer and Musician
About Me:
I play classical guitar and teach it. At present I have 40 students. When I'm not performing or teaching, I write about angling and the environment. I have a regular newspaper column and have contributed to outdoors magazines the world over. I began playing correspondence chess 47 years ago, when the pocket calculator was a stunning technological breakthrough, computers were as big as a house, and the internet wasn't even a figment of anyone's imagination. We played via snail mail, and the games took ages to complete. I witnessed the meteoric rise of Mikhail Tal and cheered for Fisher in his unparalleled run to the world championship. My two favourite players, besides Fischer, are the great Emmanuel Lasker and TIgran Petrosian who, in their primes (in Lasker's case this was almost three decades!) were some of the strongest players the game has known.
Submitted by
RobertABrown on Dec 14, 2007 3:46pm.
I've been playing on the ChessWorld site for about three years now. The place boasts half a million players, testimony to its appeal to players fond of on-line correspondence chess. Chessworld has a messaging feature, like this site does, b...Read more »