epsilon
Chris Esplin
Menlo Park, CA, United States 
Member Since:
Jul 23, 2007
Last Login:
Jan 3, 2009
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Homepage: melissaesplin.com
Birthday: Oct 15, 1982
Occupation: Economic Analyst
About Me:
I moved to Menlo Park in July 2007 to take my first job out of college. I studied econ and finance, so I ended up at a econ consulting firm.
I'm a bit of a nerd, so I try to temper my nerdiness with physical activities like running and cycling. I also try to keep up on new music so that I don't completely forget my hipster college years.
I won my first and last chess tournament as an eighth grader. I destroyed my first opponent, because I don't think the kid had played much before. I got a by in the second round, and the tournament was so small that the next round was actually the final round. I beat that kid too, because he made some miserable blunders.
Afterwards, I didn't touch chess for a few years until mi amigo Rafussen decided to become chess club president. We were a good match for a while, but he got a serious at some point, and now I'm trying to retool and crush him at least once before I die.
Submitted by
epsilon on Oct 4, 2007 2:19pm.
I played black on this one. Neither white nor black played a particularly clean game, but the deciding factor turned out to be white's lack of defense of his pawn structure and how I hung onto all of my pawns until the very end. This was a very s...Read more »
