I learned chess during my sophomore year of high school. After a surgery where I couldn't play sports anymore but I was always competitive so I learned how to play chess. I can't say I'm any good yet but I'm working my way up the ladder. I'm happy to play a game any time if it fits my schedule. I am now attending the University. So I don't compete in tournaments so much anymore since I'm trying to figure out what to do with my life, I'm hoping to do some underground chess training, so I can take the world by surprise some day in the game of chess. Who knows.
Current Chess Goals:
Don't Blunder
Be more accurate
Have fun
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Primary Openings I play: Queen's Gambit, Slav, and Caro - Kann
Secondary Openings I play: Fried Liver, Stonewall, Sicilian Dragon, Modern Benoni Well for me, for my growth and development as a chess player.
My list since I'm learning from their games. In no particular order.
José Raúl Capablanca - Endgame Machine
Tigran Petrosian - Iron Tiger Jeremy Silman- Great Chess Instructor
Leonid Zakharovich Stein - Creative Attacking
Hikaru Nakamura - First saw him in person in Chicago 2010 when I was still new to the game, wanted to shake his hand
Daniel Rensch - Is the reason why I have been on Chess.com so long
Lê Quang Liêm - Represents Vietnam and his games are fun
Susan Polgar - Great Instructional Resources
Andrew Soltis, Reuben Fine, and Max Euwe - The how I learned the games in the first place.