WanderingPuppet
NM Matthew O'Brien

36, M. I started playing tournament chess regularly at 21 years of age.  Often I miss chat as I play on iPad or have chat disabled.  I have some skill in speedreading and an insatiable appetite for knowledge.  I have played almost all of the current FIDE 2700+ club online, or at least their public accounts, which is a great privilege.

Eat, sleep, exercise, maintain good oral hygiene, live in an environment that fulfills your needs = happy life.

Currently I am exploring some new openings using my online games as training so my rating will be volatile sometimes.

Please note I only accept challenges from people I know in real life, if you are a verified user of a training group I am in and around my rating level IRL or pool rematches.  Thanks for understanding!

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Chess Resources

Chess Resources

NM WanderingPuppet
| Mar 21, 2014

Chess Resources: It seems that I am not able to publish the links to these places/resources (which is annoying).  I apologize!!  But you can google based on what I've provided to find and use them! Engines/Programs: stockfish [engine/ deve...

Playing in the Premier section

Playing in the Premier section

NM WanderingPuppet
| Dec 2, 2013

Last weekend I traveled to downtown Philadelphia to play in the National Chess Congress, a three day chess-fest of peeps, sitting and pushing bishops, rooks, pwns, and horsies (see titled players [noob master cough, cough]  can call them horsies t...

Achieving NM!

Achieving NM!

NM WanderingPuppet
| Oct 1, 2013

How to attain NM or any level of chess: play chess games and learn from them.  Use your resources: start with Google.  Now that I have answered that question for all time: The following annotated games show how I review my games although I am lik...

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