Officially a FIDE ACM through World Chess. Slowly working my way up.

26 years ago I entered my first tournament the 1999 National High School Championship in Sioux Falls South Dakota. I didn’t play another tournament until March of 2025. I’ve done more than 100 counting online tournaments since I started up again

After 26 years away from tournaments I have fully been hit with the bug. I play multiple times a day, I started the First City Chess Club because the nearest club to me is a 45 minute drive. I also started a website to document my chess growth Chess Virtuosity.

Chess Virtuosity is a blog where I will be updating my over the board games, my review of them, and begin writing more about Chess. I wrote a piece about why you should hire a coach here.

I was recently certified as a Club Director under USCF, and will begin hosting local tournaments in the near future.

I do a lot to improve my chess, I have a decent sized library of books, I drill myself on openings, I paid for both Chessable, and Chessly, and recently I hired a coach (ThemanfromEngland2080)to help me improve my game. The hard work and study is beginning to pay off.

Feel free to add me to your friends list for some games. I love playing new people, and love to learn. I’m on Chess.com, I’m also on LiChess (ChessbyKnight)

I’m on Twitch but I haven’t streamed anything of yet. When I do though you can find me at (chess_by_knight)

Hope to play you and learn something together.

-Patrick

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