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Member Since:
Sep 17, 2008
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Last Login:
Nov 7, 2011
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Birthday: Dec 25, 1985
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Occupation: Programmer
I was born in friendly Ventura, California and here I have lived except for going off to college in San Luis Obispo. I earned a degree in math and moved back to my home town.
Dad taught me how the chessmen move when I was just a little guy. He would take a massive handicap: 19 points of material to start! Then when I started winning, he would take less of a handicap. I think I got down to about 10 points when our playing drifted off. We still played lots of games, but not chess, somehow. But go forward about 10 years, I bought Chessmaster off of Steam, studied those wonderful tutorials by Josh Waitzkin, and got interested in the game again. I am happy to report that I beat the old man soundly, and now I have to give him odds :)
Right now, I'm studying from a few chess books I bought at a used book store. I pretty much never get the correct answer, but I feel that my wrong answers are converting from blunders into mere mistakes! So, it must be helping. I'm studying end games like Josh Waitzkin told me to. It's hard. I got Irving Chernev's Practical Chess Endings and it's spartan but carefully crafted. Love is so big an idea that it is not obvious how it is transmitted, but somehow I am left with the impression that Chernev must have loved every position he included in this book.