What Records or Achievements Have You Done in Chess or nonChess?

Socialista  4-3 against an average rating of 2142 is wonderful you are orogressing!

I finish 4-3 but there's a mistake in chessresults now that I check, I got 4-3 but the average opposition was lower.

Well at least I beat the NM

My greatest 'chessachievement' is getting the idea for a chessvariant when I was an absolute 0 in chess. I played once a year and then I knew again why I hardly played chess..

But then I got an idea: what if you could conquer the chessboard, get income and buy new pieces?

Then I started to work out the idea and soon realised that this could never become a good game if I didnt understand what chess was about. So I started to read on chess, asked others for advice and after some time the rules kind of created itself.

I hired a programmer to make it and it had some faulty stuff, but the game itself seemed fun. Even some 2000+ rated people where enthusiastic about it!

Now for already a year version 2 is in the make and I should really put more effort into it. Will do, but Im busy.. and I play to much standard chess. But in all: I was proud to create a variant that even stands for 2000+ rated people when I was absolutely clueless about chess.

These are the rules btw: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/standard-rules-of-economy-chess

Today I made a draw against a 1915 with black in the national team's league. After losing a piece in the move 6!, I got a rook endings with 2 against 4 pawns.

I don't know if it's an achievement because I got the draw, or is an embarrasement for losing a piece so early.

In tournament duplicate bridge in the last two months have won about 15 tournaments.

In one tournament with 56 players I came in first with one of the highest scores ever seen.

In another tournament with 1046 players, including quite a few world class players, I came in 3rd.

Wow.  Sounds like you have (brilliant) second career in bridge, as well.

Congratulations, well done.

Often people who are good in chess do very well in duplicate bridge and/or poker.

The last 4 times I played in a casino in Joliet Illinois--the first time busted out for loss of $110. The  second time won $600 for my $110. The 3rd time my $110 turned into $1400 and the 4th time my $100 entry fee turned into $1000.

[however am not able to get to the casino and play now]

In, on line poker, [back in the day when it was legal in the USA] my results were very good. 

However some people tell me that on line poker is much harder now.

Nothing extraordinary but varied:

Chess

Semi-finalist, 1977 USCF Golden Knights Postal Chess Championship (along with at least hundreds of others!).

A.A. County Maryland, 1st Place Scholastic Chess Coaches Tournament, several times in 1990's and 2000.

Non-Chess

Selected for ACE Recital (see my logo) for Classical Piano (Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, etc.) several different years in the 2000's at the world-class Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

1987-2002. Several times selected as High School Varsity Coach of the Week by the local newspapers for Cross Country, Softball, and Track.

1993: State Teaching Achievement Award for co-creating a Nutrition Science Curriculum.

1981: Appointed as a Member of my county's Landfill Laws Commission

1979: Patent (assigned to Dow Chemical) for process making a non-cancer causing additive to make kid's clothing flameproof.

1974-75: Tied, Highest Graduate School GPA at IIllinois Institute of Technology.

1973: UMBC GRE (SAT's of graduate school) record for chemistry majors in Math and Chemistry (broken to years later!)

1968: High School Chess Champion.

1967: Member, State Champion High School Track Team (I scored 1 pt. running the Mile (1600 m) in 4:47).

I once found a $100 bill on the ground in my Condo parking lot.  I blew it on wine, women, and song.

MickinMD  I am impressed!

This is impressive.

I woke up breathing.  

Dropped buttered toast and it landed buttered side up!

A/C is working in all this heat!

lol

move 34 castling. [real longest castling was circa move 47 i recall reading]

In 2001 my doctor brought my wife and I into his office and told both of us that I would be dead in two years.

So am still alive 14 years after the time I was supposed to be dead.

My wife upon hearing the news from the doctor--divorced me.

However, now I have a very wonderful wife! 

She divorced you!!!???? I did not see that coming.

Do you mean your wife is wonderful because you have a new one that is much better or she is wonderful because she is far away after the divorce?

I received the death notice from my doctor in 2001. 2 weeks later my wife [now my exwife] filed for divorce. We were divorced in 2002.

Now have a new, wonderful, wife! 

My exwife is still around. But our two boys from that marriage live with me.

Well, it just shows you how you should never judge the day after breakfast, everything can change by lunch.

Chess: drew a 1800 FIDE (I was white).

Life in general: drew a 1800 FIDE (I was white).