Chess enthusiast every now and then. Some say I miss only mates in three and that I'm terrified by pawns.

Favourite chess quotes:

"Until you are at least a high Class A player: Your first name is 'Tactics', your middle name is 'Tactics', and your last name is 'Tactics'." Ken Smith

"You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one." Mikhail Tal

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing." Emo Philips

Few things about me:

I love: turbulence, Go, mint tea in the morning, small owls, programming, SF literature, futurism, Eddie Izzard, Maneige, the smell of lavender, Top Gear, Jane (from Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead"), the design of F-117 stealth bomber, dark triple ale, stream of consciousness based novels, the sound of chinese zither, the poems of William Blake, Trainspotting, King Crimson clone bands, Jeremy Bentham's works on utilitarianism, synthpop, Lonely Planet travel series, the idea of a non-personal god, Conlon Nancarrow compositions for player piano...

I could live without: internet slang, gospel singing, ghetto culture, golden teeth, japanese kawaii, political corectness, debates for the sake of debates, brie cheese, round shoe laces, sweet wines, velcro, Mars chocolate bar, irony, english movies dubbed in french, the idea of raw fish with soya sauce, rhetorical questions, sexuality driven writings, pulp films, confrontational people...

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