Just an amateur, passionate about the game. Just joined Chess.com (Dec 2017)

Former board member of the Dutch Chess Federation.

Because of my work (I am CIO in an international investment management firm) frequent travel hinders me from playing a lot OTB chess in a club.

Discovered correspondence chess already ages ago. Fun because I can play at a manageable speed, while at the same time making new friends all over the world. And with on average between 30-50 games, there is always somthing exciting going on.

But more the passionate player than the strong player: my ICCF rating used to be 2300+ some 15years ago, but gradually finding it harder to stay above 2200. Is it me (i.e. just getting older), or is it the large amount of players out there who just let their engines run? No idea. And guess that with AlphaZero and comparable Artificial Intelligence programs out there it will be even harder to find out.

Do I care? Not really. In the end I am just here to meet new chess friends and enjoy interesting games.

Chess friends interested in and working with (or studying) 'quantitative' investing, game theory, 'behavioral' finance and artificial intelligence, feel free to invite me to link on FB or Linkedin as well.

FB: http://www.facebook.com/evd101

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/evd101

If you like Twitter, feel free to link there as well. My handle there is:

Twitter - @pundit101

ErikVanDijk