What made you select the name?

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64chesssquares

It would be fun if you can share just in two lines; what made you select the "user name" in Chess.com; particularly those names that do not identify you in any way!

Here is my reason:

I love a game of Chess and am always amazed at how many different "moves" could be made in the 64 squares!

Little-Ninja

It's my name! SmileCool

drakesdman

MY name my middle initial also kinda like is dman whiuch iss like the man also d is my nickname

mountainsong

It's funny, but on other sites I have been lots of different names.....harleyjane, boomer, zanyjanie, and freebird. Here, I'm just my initials....boring huh? Undecided The first is obvious, boomer for my dog, zany cause I'm zany, and freebird since I'm at last free!

spoiler1

My first dog's name was spoiler.

Any questions?

Jon_MaL

I based my usernamne from my character in game soul calibur which is 'nightmare'. Then I just 'j' from my first name, 'x' its comes up randomly, lastly Ip ut 16 at the end as it is my favourite number.

nocornincornok

I was on a missions trip with my church once and we were driving to Arizona from Chicago. We spent the night in a small town in Oklahoma named "Corn" and guess what? There was no corn in Corn, OK (Oklahoma)

ilikeflags
spoiler wrote:

My first dog's name was spoiler.

Any questions?

yes

ilikeflags

i actually like flags.  a lot

nocornincornok
ilikeflags wrote:

i actually like flags.  a lot


best response by far!

whitehat

Mine is a nickname from college :). It's a computer security thing.

IPA-Ray

India Pale Ale (IPA) is my favorite type of beer. Ray is my name.

Keyif

I chose my after reading a book on Coffee that said that "Keyif" comes from the Turkish and means "The fine art of watching time pass" and what better describes correspondence chess.

madhatter7

Because of my penchant for winning in unorthodox ways in most games (though not chess strangely enough), my co-workers gave me this nickname, though some have shortened it to 'The Hatta'.

JOSE__R__CAPABLANCA

I took the name of a guy I heard used to be kinda of good at chess.

Icanfight

One of my favorite movies-Braveheart. When William Wallace is a boy his uncle is going to war and William wants to come and  says "I can Fight"(Scottish accent).

If you picked up on this you are definitely Braveheart fan.

Diabeditor

I am a diabetic and for many years I was a newspaper editor.

DIABETIC + EDITOR = DIABEDITOR

torchmonkey

Baseball nickname for a hot hitter.

PoisonDonut

I like The Simpsons and I like donuts.  There's something ominous about a poison donut...it's all psychological!

From the episode "Homer's Triple Bypass":

Burns (watching Homer eat at his workstation): Look at that pig. Stuffing his face with donuts on my time! That's right, keep eating... Little do you know you're drawing ever closer to the poison donut!
[Burns cackles evilly, then stops abruptly]
Burns: There is a poison one, isn't there Smithers?
Smithers: Err... No, sir. I discussed this with our lawyers and they consider it murder.
Burns: D*** their oily hides!

Catch

Well the definitions of the word seem to suit my chess game Wink:

(v): to seize or capture, esp. after pursuit

(v): to come upon suddenly; surprise or detect, as in some action

(v): to grasp with the intellect; comprehend

(n): any tricky or concealed drawback