jona004
Andrew T Jones
Telford, UK, England 
Member Since: Jul 10, 2007
Last Login: Nov 7, 2009
Profile Views: 1047
Points: 387
Status: be back wednesday (57 days ago)
Birthday: Mar 1, 1968
FIDE Rating: 1296
About Me:
Work for a firm that makes safes. My other hobbies are football ( soccer to you yanks ), hill walking, reading and music ( punk, metal and dance ).
Got into chess when a late aunt of mine bought me a magnetic chess set one christmas in the 70's. There was also a few TV programmes on at the time devoted to the game. in the 80's i bought a ZX spectrum and one of the pieces of software that came with it was psion chess which i used the most. And in the 90's i joined the local chess club as a way of keeping out of the pub which worked to an extent.
Submitted by
jona004 on Jul 28, 2007 12:12pm.
Went to my local club night on wednesday where whoa and behold they had the latest gradings from results made last season. Well to say i was disapointed would be an understatement. I'd gone up from a 86 to a measly 87, despite having one of ...Read more »