I like astronomy so the picture is of me and my telescope, the 29 is year when Edwin Hubble calibrated the size of the universe - minus the 1900.
How did you choose your username?
When me moved Banana Falls, me immediately noticed NO GORILLA BARBERS in me neck of the woods, so me chose name The_Hairy_Gorilla.
End of banana.
I looked at my 789 fide rating and my inability to every become good at chess and came up with it within 3 seconds of my super worthy time.
I've used this name for a couple decades or so, in lots of different places online. I didn't originate it, but it's unique and sounds cool (at least to me), and I've never found it to be taken by anyone else.
Originally the name came from a roleplaying game. Someone had given a halfling a really weird name (for a halfling), and a friend of a friend said "What kind of name is that? A halfling should be named something like Bramblyspam".
So there ya go, I've used the name ever since. And I'm not even short.
So I took his name and paired it with the year he became world champion.
He's not my favorite player; that's Petrosian! (Yes, I do have a sense of irony!)
But at that time, I was playing 1...e5 a lot and Spassky played this as well... He seems a good model for an improving player: focus on tactics, the attack, classical style in that he also played 1...d5 in response to d4.