My photo is a picture of my wife of 36 years and I on our Alaskan Cruise of 2009. I am the bald one.

I have played chess a very long time. I am a long time member of the USCF and played in many tournaments. Have not played organized chess for a number of years but being retired I enjoy playing chess on the web and weekly with friends at our local club. Played numerous USCF Golden Knights [correspondence chess] tournaments and had an all time high rating of 2187. A number of years back I earned the USCF title of correspondence Candidate Master. Played and was a TD for the ICCF for a few years and still carry a rating with them of 2081 which is recognized by FIDE. The ICCF is the International Correspondence Chess Federation. My OTB play was many years ago and at 67 I want to reactivate my OTB play which may be wishful thinking. Have had a bit of trouble adjusting to OTB play but that will not be difficult to overcome, I hope. Presently I am trying to learn the London System and the KIA in pursuit of a good opening repertoire in my upcoming OTB tourneys. My resources for learning these openings are books, BookUP, Chessbase and I joined the International School of Chess. I will try to analyze some of my more interesting games to see where I could have done better and add those moves into BookUp and Chessbase. I am also studying openings such as the Nimzo-Indian, Reti and Queen's Indian. I wish to thank Chessbud for his ideas and encouragement in my quest to play a better OTB game.

RockingRook