Check out my YouTube channel “Tactics with Trav” as I focus on sharpening tactics in all phases of the game to get to 2,200. There are many great videos, subscribe to help out my small channel. Here’s a sample: https://youtu.be/UuV-Y4VpGZs

On a mission to achieve 2,200 USCF NM level as a personal goal. It's about earning something difficult and making it to that level. I have to work at it. I'm an extremely motivated person who hates to lose, but I know how to take losses and learn from them. I didn't learn how to play chess until I was 12 years old during recess in sixth grade. I've never been professionally taught or paid big $$ for coaching. I like the objective of the game to out-strategize your opponent to kill their king before they kill yours. This is not as easy as it sounds when 2-3 in-between moves get played before you're back on the main line. This is no different from life which is also a chess game. There's going to be roadblocks and stuff is gonna happen you can't forecast or plan for. If you make the right moves you can find yourself reaping rewards a.k.a. - promotion, hot woman, good health, etc. If you blunder you will find yourself in a bad position with the loss of either time, $$, women, bad health, etc.

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