Hello, dear chess friends!

I learned to play chess when I was 5 years old from my distinguished father. He is responsible for setting up my basic endgame knowledge and tactical vision. As time passed by, I started to improve. When I was 13, I began to defeat my father on a regular basis. Since then, I am on my own in the huge chess world. Whether studying books, playing with peers, or reading online articles, I started to build up my skill.

My repertoire includes The Ponziani as white, alongside King's Indian and Sicilian Najdorf as black. My pet lines are the Exchange Caro, Closed Sicilian, Be3 lines against Fianchettoes, and Advance French. I will probably update my repertoire as I earn rating points. I consider myself a tactically driven player.

For those interested, this is one of my best games (although I lost against a CM from Austria rated >500 higher):

Good game though, I am really happy with Houdini's evaluation at move 33 (=0.00). It was the first round of a tournament where I scored an impressive performance of 2020, albeit I was just 1697. Now I'm 1760 (+63 after the event)!

vlady92