UPDATE 4/26/2019: just got back from competing in a chess tournament recently, met and said hi to one of my favorite chess youtubers GM Ben Finegold in person there! Raaaawr!!

UPDATE 1/1/2019: just got back from competing in North American Open at Bally's in Las Vegas, very fun but intense, totally exhausted!!!!!! Vegas had a lot of tourists around for Christmas and New Year's, totally crazy wild partying place there. The Big Apple got swarmed by tourists too for New Year's as well, felt as if the city just doubled its population on New Year's eve. Anyways, Happy New Year's to everyone and hope for a good 2019.

ABOUT ME: a chess enthusiast and pawn grabber who enjoys the traditional classical over the board competitive chess games being in that zone contemplating for hours over all those perfect or imperfect moves and is now trying to learn how to play faster time controls with flow

my interests include running marathons, tennis, chess, reading, traveling and exploring into the nature

i used to think that chess is just chess and is all about math and logic. but now i have realized how chess is like poker and is such a mental game and has a lot of psychological and philosophical aspects to it

please kindly let me grub on your cute little pawns, thank you =p

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