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Nice to meet you Ray! Glad to see some fellow baconholics on this feed. I am Ant, I play dubious chess to Death Metal for fun
Nice to meet you too Ant. Thank you for posting here. I like to read your comment.

Thank you for introducing yourself. Those who did not introduce themselves yet please introduce yourself. Don't be shy. Look at my name above.
Ray
Ray Duque III
Hi Ray, my name is Ian.
I am not retired, but do have physical disabilities, i am middle aged now, Didn't start learning to play chess until i was 18 yrs old, and i was given a old chess book and a magnetic set, and they said; "You want to know how to play, here you go."
I am Australian, i use to play chess more seriously, but as my rating reflects today, i don't care so much. Not much else to tell you really. Only that i have seen chess.com grow a lot over more than decade of being here. It's the best site for chess online in my opinion. It's the only place i play online. Oh yeah, sometimes i am hardly on here, other times, i play a fair bit. I always end up back here, because where else should a chess player go?

I can't believe it! An Australian named Ian.
lol...we are not all Scottish.

Hello, my name is Geoffrey C and I am an alcoholic!
C of claquette?
what was that for

Hey Everyone, I'm the first Hokage and i plan to become a grandmaster
Good luck with that Naruto type dude.

hi my name is Nahjgbjbyvgfiuuuuuayyhfhvdidbiokkkklpoikiuyeee Hikarudandjandah Namaereaks Edwaresquyt Desfrasew
but its a joke

Wow, the guy is still here! An entire era later.
Geoffrey (ghost_of_pushwood, who is still here, Me? I will be here forever. Thank you for posting here.

WOW! Talk about commitment
Yes, real commitment here and in the Internet forever. Visit my profile here and in the Internet. Thank you and to all too.

I am Arjun. I'll be a GM one day and I'll get so much recognition that GMs who don't accept my challenges now, will challenge me on chess.com.

Thank you for introducing yourself. Those who did not introduce themselves yet please introduce yourself. Don't be shy. Look at my name above.
Ray
Ray Duque III
Hi Ray, my name is Ian.
I am not retired, but do have physical disabilities, i am middle aged now, Didn't start learning to play chess until i was 18 yrs old, and i was given a old chess book and a magnetic set, and they said; "You want to know how to play, here you go."
I am Australian, i use to play chess more seriously, but as my rating reflects today, i don't care so much. Not much else to tell you really. Only that i have seen chess.com grow a lot over more than decade of being here. It's the best site for chess online in my opinion. It's the only place i play online. Oh yeah, sometimes i am hardly on here, other times, i play a fair bit. I always end up back here, because where else should a chess player go?
Hello Ian,
Thank you for your comment here. We are both here more than a decade ago in 2007. You were here Dec 2007 and I was here Sept 2007.
I agree with you that this is the best chess site so far but I still like the v2 than v3. We are now in v3. There are so many chess sites in the Internet. I was registered to almost all chess sites if not all. You can visit (me) my name in all chess sites but I was already inactive to those chess sites except here and chessmaniac. I visit Lichess and chess24 once in a while. If there is a chess site that I am not register there, please let me know. I will register in that chess site.
Again, thank you.
Ray
Ray Duque III (GMBD), USA

Hey Everyone, I'm the first Hokage and i plan to become a grandmaster
Good luck Kelvin (1st_Hokage).

I am Arjun. I'll be a GM one day and I'll get so much recognition that GMs who don't accept my challenges now, will challenge me on chess.com.
Good luck Arjun.
I am the Grumpy Old Man of the Forum.