KeSetoKaiba Username Meaning
KeSetoKaiba Username Meaning
The meaning behind my username @KeSetoKaiba has been asked by several chess.com members. Most of them I’ve answered in private messages (PMs) and some I simply told I would eventually write a blog post on this topic. Now that I accomplished my recent Puzzle Rush Survival goal of 50+, I have more free time and I can finally explain the origin behind my username. It all goes back to ancient Egypt…
All right, it doesn’t exactly go back that far (reference to the original Yugioh taking place in ancient Egypt for portions of the series). The character “Seto Kaiba” is from the 1996 anime “Yugioh.” This is where I get that part of my username from and also where I get my profile picture.
I’m not quite a perfectionist, but whenever I try to create new usernames and passwords: I really take my time and try to make it really meaningful. Perhaps I am creative, or maybe I just want a good username for an account that might very well last years: I want to make it a good one. Inventing a creative username is tough for me because I want to get it “just right.”
When I created my chess.com account, I had made up my mind to “take up chess.” I had no idea how long I would stick with it though; I certainly didn’t expect to be here years later like I have, nor did I expect to have progressed as much as I have with this game I now love.
I thought of a Yugioh site I played at (which has since closed) and my username there was “KeSetoKaiba.” The reason I chose this username there was because my primary deck (Yugioh is a card game also played in the anime where the players construct their own card decks to “duel” against another) revolved around the card “Blue-Eyes White Dragon” just like Seto Kaiba’s deck did in the show. This is where the “SetoKaiba” portion derives from. In the anime, Seto Kaiba is the CEO of a company called “KaibaCorp.” This is where the “KC” logo on his belt buckle comes from. However, in the old manga drawings I’ve seen, the “KC” logo almost looks like “Ke.”
In the blog article thumbnail, we can see how the bottom-right of the “K” overlaps the top-left of the “C” on the belt buckle logo. With the lesser attention to detail in the manga (“manga” is a Japanese art-style for comics), it isn’t too difficult to imagine how the “c” might look like an “e” and I always found this a little funny.
On that Yugioh site, I simply put the “Ke” in front of “SetoKaiba” and that is how I invented the username “KeSetoKaiba.”
In the Yugioh manga and anime (tv show), Seto Kaiba was an accomplished chess player and even once beat the world chess champion at a game of chess (an interesting subject of discussion is how in the manga, Seto managed to defeat the world chess champion by cheating at the chess game versus in the anime version where Seto managed to defeat the world chess champion in a fair game by a lot of pre-game preparation and intensely studying their openings and strategies - both versions offer interesting symbolism that align with the plot and character traits). Due to Seto’s chess ability able to beat the world chess champion in a chess game, I figured using a “Seto Kaiba based username” for a chess site was fitting.
I literally recycled my Yugioh site username, profile picture and even biography for chess.com; in fact, my chess.com profile biography was identical to my profile on that Yugioh site - word for word, until I updated my chess.com profile around one year ago to include more “chess information.” This is how I created the username @KeSetoKaiba - yes, part of it was well thought out and yes part of it was laziness by simply recycling work I had already done for another site!
How I pronounce my username is “K” (‘kay”), “e” (as one would pronounce the first letter in “ear”), “Seto Kaiba.” Phonetically, it sounds the same if one imagined the first two letters as initials: K.E. Seto Kaiba. This is how I pronounce my username, but I’ve also heard others commonly use [key-Seto Kaiba]. Although this isn’t “correct”, I don’t mind - I know who they are talking about.
Now I feel even more connected to my chess.com username because coincidentally, “Ke” are also the first two letters in my first name, “Kevin.”
Up until now, only about a dozen chess.com members knew my first name. It was never really a secret, but I just didn’t go advertising it everywhere. Besides, I typically call people by their usernames online. If “@KeSetoKaiba” is too difficult to pronounce, I’ve been called a lot of similar versions: “Seto”, “Kaiba”, KSK and all of these are okay with me.
Now my chess.com username is explained and easier to know how to pronounce. See you all around chess.com everyone!
@KeSetoKaiba
