Introduce yourself

Hi I live in US avid golfer and tennis player love to make beer. Just started playing chess so

much I learn maybe I can win a few matches upset some better players

Hello, I'm Dave.  I am a full-stack software developer in Las Vegas, previously in Silicon Valley and Chicago.  I have played chess for as long as I can remember, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I joined this site about a year ago.  I am a nudist, a cyclist, a science and space nerd, and I have a puppy named Gambit.

Not sure I could handle being a nudist in Vegas, I needed factor 50 just to walk from one casino into the other...

Hi there,

Im Richard originally from newbury england now living with my wife in hengelo netherlands, we met playing wargames on our phones almost 12 years ago (married for 4 in august). I am 43 and have 1 son and 3 daughters although my son is 20 and the girls in england are 18 and 10 and my youngest with my wife is 18 months, i also play soulsbourne games on my ps4 soon to be ps5 abd final fantasy and also im a golfer. 

Just joined today to see what its like in a "club". i have played chess since i was very young, my dad taught me, the highest ive achieced is 1490 but been away from the game for about a year as i got very very busy at work 60 to 65 hr weeks 6 days a week with small child, didnt hace much time for chess but now im back and re learning again. 

I’m an “adult improver” (at 57, more like an old beginner). I’ve known the rules of the game since I was a child, but only during the last few months I began taking the game more seriously. The rest of the time I teach math at the university. I like old books and I can read descriptive notation (in English and Spanish!), so there’s that. 

Hello Everyone,

I started chess a year ago and i'm pretty happy with my current progress

I'm Jim 48 year old electrician currently working on the Ely Ouse to Essex Water Transfer Scheme, from 2013. but prior to that did 22 years in the RAF as a Ground Technician Electrical in General Engineering flight, 16 Sqn RAF Regiment and 5001 Sqn. Always like chess from school, but sadly never really been that good at it. Probably down to never spending much time training/reading (Theory) to get better, or trying to learn from own games/mistakes. 

Hello hello! I’m David, 36yo from San Diego, CA. I live in Anchorage, Alaska. I’m an Assistant Brewer, and occasional marathoner. I 

I have known the rules of chess since I was a child. My Grandfather taught me. I never studied opening theory or endgames, nothing really. I just threw the pieces around on intuition until recently. I’m enjoying the lessons and puzzles on here. 

It's nice to find a good community of people that enjoy this game. It’s great to meet you all. 

Hi everybody, I am a piano teacher and we are now in lockdown in New Zealand - so I will playing a lot these days.. I have a fb page where I strive to make get together classically trained musicians and jazz lovers together.. If you like either/or, please join my view. Alina https://www.facebook.com/Classical2Jazz

Hello. I'm Phil. I live in Melbourne, Australia. I am an online wine retailer. I started playing chess a few years ago when I had to rehab a torn calf muscle and was spending a lot of time laying down and stretching. 

Hi, I'm Chris. I work as a dialysis RN. I joined the club a couple of weeks ago after playing in 1 or 2 of the club's tournaments. I learned chess from my father at around 8, and played a bit in high school. I played off and on with friends, and 6 months ago a few friends at work started playing as a small group, and timing worked out that I needed a new distraction, so I joined chess.com. I've played more games in the last 6 months than I have in all of my previous time combined.

I'm Shawn. Serial entrepreneur living in Puerto Rico. I've known how to play chess since the age of 6. I didn't get serious about playing chess until last month. Working on my game, and hoping to crack 1000 in rank by the end of the year. 

Hello everyone im Tom and im 10 years old. Ive been playing chess since i was 5 and i have won 2 gold medals and 1 bronze so far, Im looking forward to play in more compeitition this year. My hobbies(except chess) are watching youtube, studying, reading books and playing the piano.

I hope to be a CM one day, im still improving my rating.

Hello all.  I'm Paul, 53 and working in IT in Belgium, although I'm originally from the UK.

I keep on joining the Groovy tournaments, I hadn't realised until just now that I hadn't actually joined the group.  This is now rectified  :-)

Hey guys! I never introduced here either. My name's Taylor, born and raised in Iowa but have been in Phoenix, AZ for 11 years. I'm 35 w/ 2 girls that split time between my house and their moms. 

I played chess in grade school with friends and got out of it when I was older. Just got back into it about 2 years ago and love it! 

Dog dad of two - I get them all the time.

Hello, I am the Michael, am 60 Years old, happily married and have 2 adult children. I am from germany and i live near frankfurt/main. my father taught me to play chess when i was a boy. I also played with enthusiasm for quite a while. But at that time there was no online chess and you could only play if you knew someone who could play. Today it`s absolutely awesome. You can play at any time of the day or night with people all over the world. Awesome!!!! Have rediscovered chess since about 1 year and play a lot. The Groovy gang is a really great club. There are many and good tournaments and very nice and cool players...Thanks for that! My other hobbies are Music, drawing and painting, at the moment i`m still learning to play the drums and bass guitar.  All still have fun in this great club.....

Hi everybody! :-)

I'm very happy to be here.

My name is Rainer. I'm 34 years old and I'm from Austria.

Thank you very much for inviting me in this club! :-)

It's always great fun on chess.com and I'm delighted to play, connect, making friends and always developing this amazing game!

Hugs from Austria! :-)

Hi 

Im Adie from Barnsley in the uk originally from Derby love chess not very good tho 🥴 looking forward to playing some games and climbing the ladder 

Hey guys! Just joined thanks for the invite. Currently just playing some daily games here and there as I’m super busy with work and studying for my big board exam to become a BCBA. Been playing chess on and off since I was in elementary school and I just finished up my masters degree. I’m 24 and live in North Carolina, and I’m hoping to become a lot more active once I pass my big exam!