phantomfears
Alan Dunsmore
Stoneyburn, Scotland 
Member Since: Oct 20, 2007
Last Login: Nov 21, 2009
Profile Views: 2569
Points: 445
Birthday: Aug 24, 1967
Occupation: Customer advisor
FIDE Rating: 1370
About Me:
I love rock music bands including but not exclusively :- Rush, Yes, Thunder, Dream Theater, Marillion, King's X, REO Speedwagon, Led Zeppelin, Free, Bad Company. Playing Badminton and Table Tennis. Watching American sports. Boston Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and The New England Patriots. I have a beautiful wife Dionne and a son Mark. I love the infinite variation of chess. In other sports and games there is a bigger element of luck. In chess it is almost entirely eliminated. It stretches your brain and is mentally stimulating. I have a tendency to play the French Defence as black and The Scotch as white.
Submitted by
phantomfears on Sep 14, 2008 11:46am.
Well that's another transatlantic trip over. New York was superb. Lots of hugely famous places all on a little island 13x2.5 miles in size. We spent 4 and a bit days walking and bussing around one tourist spot to the next. Now I have only one more we...Read more »