shingywan

shingywan

Chess Player Profile

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shingywan

Rating 1836

Accepting all challenges
Daily ChessLast move 07 Mar 23

Bio

I was probably 11 years old when my dad taught me the moves and I never gave it further thought back then. I mostly ignored it for 24 years of my life. Now I'm closer to 40 than I am 30 and I think it's one of the greatest games around. My dad used to play for Wakefield and had an ECF close to 170 back in the day. He would work in a restaurant all day, come back, practice and then catch the bus to play for his club. It's great I can share this game with him.

My interest has come so late though! I'd love to reach a level where I can give him a good game but my dog, an English Springer Spaniel named Poppy, limits my time... and my wife who I don't want to turn into a Chess widow! 🙂 My other loves are playing football (soccer) and boxing which I practice as an amateur welterweight (5'9"/175cm, 69kg/156lb).

I do use the Analyze tool but if you message me I can make a gentleman's agreement that I will not use it at all. Time to time, I will make a stupid move and that's the problem I find playing online and playing the game in broken stages. If my mistake is too severe then I will resign and I do so with the utmost respect to my opponent. Please do not be offended.

Skulls... I will always try and contact you once and give you a day or two to reply. But if it's a repeat thing then I have to go for the timeout I'm afraid!

Chess is a great game. When you get past the basics, studying finer concepts such as tempo, initiative and position; open up all kinds of doors. Forget about your rating once in a while, play someone lower, play someone higher. Give someone the benefit and pleasure of playing against you so you can *both* improve.

If you're hovering around an online rating of 800 - 1500 then Jeremy Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess" is the best book I ever read that helped me improve my game. Very readable and simply awesome advice.

You can follow me on Twitter @shingywan

Don't stress out - just play 🙂

Rating Trend

50 games

Rated Won / Drawn / Lost

All Rated

295 games

As White

131 games

As Black

164 games

Stats
Daily Chess
Games Played
451
Rated
295
Won
292
Lost
146
Drawn
13
In Progress
0
All Moves
14789
Moves This Month
0
Tourn. Entry Rating
1836

Rated Color

All

295 games

Won

183 games

Lost

106 games

Drawn

6 games

Rated Timeouts

Won

8 games

Lost

2 games

Historical

Highest Rating189218921922
Average Rating186418641892
Lowest Rating183618361836
Opponent Average Rating152215221569
Games Rated3328
90 days1 Year5 Years

Affiliated Clans

No affiliated clans

Affiliated Clubs

No affiliated clubs

Tournament Victories

No tournament wins yet

User Id
#722964
Joined
09 Oct 13
Last Daily Move
07 Mar 23
Last Live Game
-
Awards
  • Rated player
Ladder Rank

No ladder entered

Notes

Moves This Month is the number of moves made since the 1st of the month.

Highest Rating excludes provisional (first 20) games.

Tournament Entry Rating is calculated by the formula (CurrentRating + HighestRating) / 2.

The entry rating will never drop to more than 100 points below your Highest Rating.

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Last refreshed on 08 Mar 23.