Started playing chess here when Covid-19 broke out in USA.

Enjoy playing players from all over the world. Hope to play (and beat :-) a chess player in all 195 counties.

Always up for a good chess game.

“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.” – Blaise Pascal

“Chess is life in miniature. Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” – Garry Kasparov

“I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.” – Bobby Fischer

“The game of chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it… Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Unlike other games in which lucre is the end and aim, [chess] recommends itself to the wise by the fact that its mimic battles are fought for no prize but honor. It is eminently and emphatically the philosopher’s game.”

– Paul Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion.

“Chess makes men wiser and clear-sighted.” – Vladimir Putin