Update!

I started editing my profile in November 2014. It started with the lines "Sometime in the Sixties and Seventies" and you can guess that it is the boring story of my even more boring chess life.

This got longer and longer because I tried to add something each month. Who besides me would ever read that? Well, actually I never expected anyone to read this — except me.  It is a nice personal reminder of my online chess history and because I tend to forget things the older I get it is rather helpful.

My discipline didn't even last for a year. That made me feel bad and I want to continue — trying the chess.com blog. Here I go …

 Remark: 2021, November 3

This post once looked better. Black text on dark grey background do not reflect my mood when I wrote this. Due to the changes of the chess.com blog editor things look different to how they used to. Some formatting options are not available anymore.