“Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.” – Bill Hartston

“The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made.” – Savielly Tartakower

"A person has nothing to lose if he believes in God and in the end he turns out to be wrong but everything to lose if he wagers that God does not exist and it turns out in the end that He really does." - Blaise Pascal (C17th French Scientist & Mathematician)

I'm here to play for fun. You win some, you lose some and then you draw some. But in the end its always a game, where one ends - a new one begins! A bit like a chapter in a book. I've been absent from the game since my days at secondary school. Here to enjoy and have some fun :-)