WarriorBLUE
Warrior BLUE
Southwest/Central Michigan, United States 
Member Since: Mar 24, 2009
Last Login: Jul 1, 2009
Profile Views: 552
Points: 74
Status: classified (7 months ago)
Birthday: Nov 24, 1969
Occupation: IT Technician and welder/fabricator
USCF Rating: 1450
About Me:
Chess is a tool I utilize to procrastinate. Yes, I play to keep from doing or thinking about what I should be doing or thinking about. I really enjoy being able to focus on getting better and seeing results of my efforts. But that hasn't happened in about 5 years. So, I just continue on - staying roughly the same strength.
I don't get around to playing many tournaments. Because of that, my USCF rating is considerably lower than my actual playing strength - I'm a solid Class 'B' player OTB. I've drawn against experts & even beat a master in blitz OTB during a lesson back in 1994.
I teach chess at my son's school to roughly 30 students from Kindergarten to the 10th grade.
I'm a devoted husband & father of two young boys (7 & 4). I'm also a born sinner. But I believe Jesus walked the earth & died for the sins of mankind as atonement, so that everyone has an opportunity to experience the grace of God & make it to Heaven. Jesus would've been a great chess player.
My marriage ain't doing so well. Chess is NOT helping things. In fact, in the process of a separation & it's very difficult to get on here to make moves. I find that I'm on here & moving too fast just to get it over with because I have other priorities. We're selling the house & splitting up with the hopes that it'll help our relationship. I could use & would certainly appreciate some advice from anyone who's been thru such a thing. It sucks. Thanks.
Submitted by
WarriorBLUE on Apr 20, 2009 10:52am.
As far as improvement goes, there are a lot of ways to get better at chess - lessons, reviewing annotated master games, chess trainers, studying databases, etc. You can survive the opening with basic opening principles - influence or occupy the cent...Read more »