Starting from a young age, chess slightly interested me. I played it here and there with my dad throughout my younger years. Throughout my Middle School years, I played chess a good bit on and off while focusing on school and decided to join a chess club hosted at my school by (who is also my current chess coach), United States Chess Federation (USCF) Candidate Master Jonathan Rasberry (http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?14678910). When I reached Highschool, I created my main chess account (This One) and became an intermediate chess player after reaching a Rapid Elo of over 1100. That is when I started to focus on chess so much that I was playing nearly 8 hours a day! I started going to USCF chess tournaments and got better and better at chess to the point where I eventually hit a puzzle rating of over 3200 as well as a bullet rating of over 1600. During Highschool, I became a Beta tester for Chess.com and also ended up buying International Chess Master (IM) Levy Rozman’s “How To Win At Chess” book and began using and learning almost every single opening and most of the gambits that his book had to offer. Eventually, I decided to start working small jobs for Rasberry Chess Academy (https://www.rasberrychess.com/), such as going to schools and getting kids to join his chess academy as well as come to his classes. There were a few times when I was doing Rasberry Chess Academy events such as summer camps, after school classes, etc, that I had a few chances to coach newer younger chess players than me. All of this inspired me to start coaching and teaching chess. I decided that I would coach and teach chess to new and around 1000 Elo chess players for free. This is when I started coaching my first student (https://www.chess.com/member/kindheartedelfyt) (https://www.youtube.com/@KindheartedElf). So I guess you could say I have a passion for Chess. Chess has offered me so many opportunities and has allowed me to meet and be friends with so many new people that I still know today! So with this being said, thank you for reading this and I encourage you to continue playing chess and to start spreading knowledge about this beautiful game to family and friends.

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