Hi, this is Imagine2020. I am a USCF tournament player. I am not very good, but I’m constantly improving. Let me know if you want to play daily.

Update: I have created a club for my friends. If you are one of my friends not yet in the club, feel free to message me for an invite. Tournaments every day btw.

Notice: I have recently experienced multiple negative comments during both rated and unrated games, win or lose. I ask that you keep your opinions to yourself. I am here to play chess and find friends, and maybe make someone sad into someone happy. I am NOT here to be falsely accused of sandbagging, cheating, or told to quit chess forever, or that I am a loser.

If you want to say you are better than me, that is most likely true. Unless you are lower rated than me. Just because you beat me once doesn’t me you’re better. If that’s how it works, then Fabiano Caruana could still be considered the best player ever (Sinquefield 2014 reference). If you really are better, let us play Classical or Daily. If you beat me then, you only have me congratulations and good wishes on your future rated games.

If you say rude things, it shows a lot about you, whether that be lack of social skills or major insecurity (or you are tilted often). If you do want to channel your emotions into something productive, I have advice. Play good moves, and let your pieces do the talking.

Chess is known for expressing almost every part of life, so why not use it to demonstrate how you feel?

A little overview of my chess:

My ImmorTal: https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/146442491902/analysis

My OTB ImmorTal I played at Scholastic Nationals: https://www.chess.com/analysis/collection/otb-immortal-rWfUaz46/3ZFYFcjZrv/analysis

Chess.com Personality Quiz: Assassin

How I play: Positional Squeeze

Best at: Opening

Favorite Opening: Caro-Kann: Karpov Variation

Chess.com Opening Quiz: Sicilian Defense: Open, Scheveningen Variation (1. Intermediate. 2. No Preference. 3. Positional. 4. Memorization is a strength. 5. Solid)

Favorite Time Control: Any Classical

Favorite Tactic: Greek Gift Sacrifice

Grandmaster I play most similar to (ChatGPT’s opinion): Anatoly Karpov, 12th World Champion

Reached 1,000 Elo Across Each Time Control on 12/29/25

Quotes I find applicable to myself and how I play chess:

"The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others".
“A book cannot by itself teach how to play. It can only serve as a guide, and the rest must be learned by experience.” - Jose Raul Capablanca
“It doesn’t matter how strong a player you are, if you fail to register some development in the opening, then you are asking for trouble.” — John Emms
“For inspiration, I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal.” — Garry Kasparov
“Fischer...is abnormally sensitive to the slightest noise in the hall...Then there are other players, among them Spassky, [Viktor] Korchnoi, and myself. For us, it is simply boring to play in an empty hall. When we appear on the stage, we are artistes.” — Mikhail Tal
“Towering genius, riches, international fame and a far from normal childhood might be too heady a mix for anyone to handle. For him they proved fatal.” — Dick Cavett
"I always loved complexity. With chess, one creates beautiful problems." — Marcel Duchamp
“Chess is a game by its form, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it.” — Tigran Petrosian
"I like the moment I crush a man’s ego” — Bobby Fischer
“Chess is my life, but my life is not chess” — Anatoly Karpov
"The worst enemy of a strategist is the clock. Time trouble . . . Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation” —- Garry Kasparov
“You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.” -Magnus Carlsen