none here care to introduce themselves?

Greetings!  Curious if anyone here would care to introduce themselves and what brought you here.  I live in California and am self emplyed, 46, and haven't played chess since 13 lol.  My rating is 1270, but fluctuates rapidly depending on the happy hour, you might say. I love this site because it's the only place where you can find someone good enough to play and much more.  I also own a couple forums as a hobby at avianflutalk.com and swineflu.org as a hobby. 

Anyway, if anyone here would like to introduce themselves, please do it and, tell your rating!

Best, Oscar

Cheer up Kaynight. 

Hi -

I live in a small farming community, tightly wedged in the puckered sphincter of western New Brunswick (Canada). I used to play OTB about twenty years ago (I'm nearly 58), and did pretty well in amateur competitions... my OTB rating was around 2050 CFC. I got back into the game exactly a year ago, and I'm having a lot of fun on this site.

One word of warning, though... this forum is absolutely overrun with trolls. You will indeed encounter plenty of friendly, helpful and articulate people; but they are badly outnumbered by the rude and inconsiderate ones. Within the low-to-mid ranks, I haven't noticed any strong correlation between playing strength and courtesy, but the titled players (IMs, GMs) seem much more polite than average.

Annoying, aren't I?

kaynight wrote:

Keek!

Hi.  I am Rico.  I have nine years and am from Peru.

Welcome Rico! Glad you got out eventually.

Want some of mine?

Groucho Marx was fond of pointing out that growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Hello! My real name is Erik, 28 years old, and work in the high tech industry. I've been playing chess since I was young while watching my father play it. And autodidacting while reading about it in a chess book I read like 8 times through. Later, my father did not want to play against me anymore so I started playing blitz online, first other websites, now at chess.com.

My college friends got me into a nice blitz tourney. Also I joined a chess club for a year, but that interfered with an other hobby.

Yeah sometimes this forum can be trolly, I participate so now and then, but dont take it personal, its just for fun. (Actually, it is the most fun when people do take it personal, but enough about that).

So now I go to this yearly blitz tourney, and play blitz online, and sometimes watch chessexplained on youtube for new ideas.

Nice to meet you.

14 year old from England, been playing for the  best part of a year but I can't for the life of me remember why. 1372 rating

Creepy, isn't it?

Censored for privacy reasons (the NSA is watching), I am ***** from the United States. My OTB USCF is 2008. I am ** years old. Nice to meet you all. Mersaphe, friendliness is mandatory

Plaguerist (n.): Someone who spreads the plague.

You mean plagiarist?

I am 913Glorax12 who has a partner in crime, a female dog.

We are the greatest people on chess.com yet people are afraid to admit it.

Singer-songwriter here with a big fat butt and a 42D brah.

DADUMMMMMM!!!

My dog's name is mentioned

Hi....my real name is Annabella. Happily married with a wonderful man from England. Have a 14 year old boy and a 4 pound dog named Boo Boo. Im addicted to chess and black berries.  Don't like spooky movies and I love  good Italian red wine.  

"Me and you and a dog named Boo" is another song I didn't write.