I am a 60-year-old hobby player on a disability pension. with limited club experience.

I am too old and slow to be competitive. as a novice OTB at 21 I had a provisional OTB rating of 1284. It was Jason Sou that got me interested in chess and club play. Jason was rated 1403. back then in the old days.

My favorite chess player is Victorian Grandmaster Joseph Henry Blackburne aka the “Black Death” who learned the moves at 19 and beat World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz in a game at 21 in the space of just 2 years from starting to play…

MY highest ever online rating is 1701 on play chess .com. my PBA mate is 1938. by forced mate.

I play 1750 performance on chess.com at times but I’m too erratic. my performance doesn’t equate into overall rating points.

I support the Titled Women and Men authors on Chessable.com. I have purchased over 130+ videos currently while they teach the younger players. Most videos cost 100 to 250 US dollars. It is a great site. and i toughly recommend it to players of all Caliber.

TO ALL TITLED PLAYERS THANKS FOR YOUR EFFORT.

I give 10% of my income in total to charity (national McGarth Foundation cancer nurses, international UNICEF and local domestic women shelter against violence.) that’s on a pension. there’s no reason why everyone can.t do it also.

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I PLAY STRATEGY OVER TACTICS. (CHECK CAPTURE ^prophylaxis^ then attack)

I ALWAYS strive for the incitive and try to save tempos where i can.

ORIGIN OF MY NAME >Steven Means VICTORY CAESAR.

THE STEN MACHINE GUN used exclusively by British and Commonwealth forces. It was low cost and easy to dismantle. It was designed to spray bullets rather than single shot accuracy. My mother based my name on the STEN machine gun and VICTORY IN EUROPE.

My uncle Ron Chapman former De Plessey (highest decorated British serviceman) in the RAF worked with the OSE and the French resistance during WW2. He was only answerable to Winston Churchill himself.

He was awarded the full Victoria Cross and the full Legion d’honneur. He was born on the Channel Islands

The frost family lost its fortune fighting the nazis as war bonds were not paid back by the British govt.

Ron was married to my eldest aunt Sylvia frost n NANCY France. Ron worked with the white mouse Nancy Wakes running interference for her as he could speak fluent French and she could not

NEO NAZIS ARE THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE WORLD.

I was born by emergency CAESARIAN THE OLD-FASHIONED Way) My MOTHER AND ME WERE THE FIRST TO BOTH Survive IN MEDICAL HISTORY. my HEAD WAS TOO BIG FOR MY MOTHERS BIRTH CANAL.

victory COMES FROM WW2 AND VICTORY IN Europe AGAINST THE nazis.

MY FAVORITE GENERALS OF WW2 are PATTON AND ROMMEL.

S = Schach T= tactics TANKS (BLITZKREIG) training pz1 pz2 pz3 1939 1940

1941 E= ENIGMA MACHINE iv first set of 4 CODE WHEELS pz4 MAIN Mass-Produced MEDIUM tank

1941-1943 INVASION OF RUSSIA operation Barbarossa / Battle of Atlantic UBOATS

V I942 the heavy pz5 TIGER TANK TO ENSURE VICTORY.

VE England/Europe = v1 the ROCKET PROGRAM 1943 PANTHER TANK TO SURE UP KING TIGER

1943 second SET OF 4 ENIGMA CODE WHEELS INTRODUCED.

1944 JULY BOMB PLOT ON ADOLF HITLER. I am sorry the planted bomb didn’t kill Hitler.

N= NUCLEAR PROGRAM THE v2 ROCKET.

nazis plan for war to end in 1948 (48 SQUARES IN FRONT OF THE PAWNS)

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CHESS IS ANCIENT WARFARE (LATER MEDEIVAL. (the dawn of gunpowder)

WHEN THEY INDUSTRIALIZED CHESS (WW1 AND WW2 THEY WENT ASTRAY.)

They should stop teaching junior’s queens are nukes when they are a combination of

airpower and special forces. ww2 BUT i would never change FIDE CHESS as it is well balanced and there is too much literature now.

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HUMAN VS HUMAN CHESS IS 36% STRATEGY (AND PLANS (PAWNS) AND 64% TACTICS (PIECES) calculation (ITS strategy that gets you to the next level CM>IM>GM SGM WCH)

FOR ENGINES ITS 92% TACTICAL calculation AND the effect of CHESS HORIZONS (strategy). 8% against IBM Deeper Blue World Champion Garry Kasparov looked 14 ply deep while the engine looked 28 ply deep on average. He resigned for humanity.

every square mobility equals a extra 1 percent Elo advantage. Per square

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