37, 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.
Part time, I have taught chess at some after school chess programs for several years. Additionally I give private lessons in chess to mostly local players and preferably to people I know in real life.
I have completed all (nearly 5000) chesscom lessons.
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!
Finished my first of 22 games this round and it was an interesting one for me. My analysis includes a survey of a few of White's main options against the rare but somewhat trendy 5. ...c6 variation of the Catalan. Hope you enjoy! I recall re...
Below you will find a library of my round 4 games with my annotations. https://www.chess.com/c/2DHKhs9Lz The key to my successes this tournament is playing the soundest asymmetrical repertoire I could play with Black, where I had comprehensive ...
Greetings fans of fun chess! And welcome to any others as well! Techniques of how this national master analyzes chess positions (scary, I know) and the ideas exchanged during and after the game between yours truly and his honorable opponents in...
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...
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...
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...
This was a blindfold simul game (1 of 6) given by GM Timur Gareev at 25' + 25" increment time control. Thanks to Timur for an outstanding game by him and also a shout-out thank you to IM Rensch for his lively commentary on chess.com TV (which I ...
Today I was fortunate enough to have one of my games analyzed by IM David Pruess (dpruess) on chess tv. I really enjoyed the show and David's ideas and a few others contributed with interesting suggestions as well. Below is the PGN of the game wi...
