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I should think a sorting arbiter would sort all of us into pawns, knights, bishops and rooks! No! Certainly not - first years' cannot go into queens or kings!

Member since Feb 9, 2017

Active

Time spent playing: 115 days, 13 hours

Time featured on TV: 1 hour, 41 minutes

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Activity21,633 games

1 win2 losses
Played 3 Blitz games122716
1 win1 loss
Played 2 Bullet games11501
Competed in 2 Arena tournaments
Ranked #402 (top 70%) with 2 games in ≤2000 Blitz Arena
Ranked #261 (top 95%) with 1 game in ≤1500 SuperBlitz Arena

1 win1 loss
Solved 2 tactical puzzles
3 wins6 losses
Played 9 Blitz games12431
2 wins5 losses
Played 7 Rapid games128810
1 loss
Played 1 Chess960 game12141
Competed in 6 Arena tournaments
Ranked #40 (top 38%) with 1 game in ≤1500 Rapid Arena
Ranked #515 (top 50%) with 5 games in Hourly SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #874 (top 65%) with 3 games in Daily Rapid Arena
Ranked #59 (top 69%) with 4 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #193 (top 85%) with 2 games in ≤2000 Rapid Arena
Ranked #55 (top 87%) with 1 game in Hourly Chess960 Arena

9 wins2 draws3 losses
Played 14 Blitz games124242
2 losses
Played 2 Bullet games115111
Posted 1 message in serious discussion... should i wear a chess t-shirt or a casual one to…
I would choose a light-hearted one with a smiling knight. Not a fan of the bloody screen printed horseback riding knight…
Posted 4 messages in These darn flies
Some little flies got in at the window screen. What is the trick to catching them in your hand like Jackie Chan?
(I think fly swatter is too good for them)
@Dukedog said in #5: > @morphyms1817 > Flies take off backwards so you grab at them behind them. > Glad to help :) Betwe…
@Noflaps said in #9: > When I was young and working in a store, we would sometimes use shoot rubber bands at the pesky f…
Posted 2 messages in Why does not Aleksandra Goryachkina smile in chess tournament posters?
I have noticed the same and I do not understand it.
I read one article several weeks ago, she was actually smiling. I was shocked.
Posted 1 message in Do you follow a baseball team?
@Tenakel said in #14: > A very ambitious but unfortunately very unsuccessful team is the "Charlie Brown's All Stars". Yo…
Posted 2 messages in I would like Anna Cramling to play something different with white than…
She has great chess mind and content, however her games with white, she plays alot of the same frequently.
Well, I don't mean those COW games - the real ones.
Competed in 4 Arena tournaments
Ranked #7 (top 13%) with 8 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #25 (top 37%) with 2 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #328 (top 68%) with 2 games in Hourly SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #274 (top 86%) with 1 game in ≤2000 SuperBlitz Arena

1 win1 loss
Played 2 Blitz games12003
1 win1 loss
Played 2 Rapid games12785
Posted 1 message in Visit the moon of your choice!
I'll go to Neptune's Triton. There is interesting geography. It has geysers and an atmosphere.
Posted 1 message in Mangoes are da best (obviously) =)
@mang0sunr1s3 said in #2: > do u know what is better than a mango? two mangoes Here is a math problem. If you have two m…
Posted 1 message in Design your own planet
I like a yellow star like the Sun, relatively stable. A yellow G class star gives a good white light. An Earth type plan…
Posted 2 messages in goat of movies
@JASKIRATSINGH said in #4: > This goat has won 13 Oscars in movies and shows. > this goat is classical dancer and singer…
@JASKIRATSINGH said in #4: > This goat has won 13 Oscars in movies and shows. > this goat is classical dancer and singer…
Posted 2 messages in why does no one except for me like pink floyd nowadays
My listening progression started like: Dark Side of the Moon Animals Wish you were Here WYWH was one of those I listened…
@stockwellpete said in #18: > "Phaedra" was a really big album back in the mid-1970s. Have you got that one? It still so…
Posted 5 messages in Do you follow a baseball team?
I like the Atlanta Braves, they're down in the NL East 10 games. I saw they beat the Mets yesterday.
I more look at box scores and highlights anymore. I don't look at much tv. My favorite time of watching the Braves was t…
@HerkyHawkeye said in #5: > Seattle Mariners. God help me. God help them! Love the game, but loathe the broadcasts. Migh…
Occasionally I'll watch a Fox broadcast with Smoltz commentating, I like him.
I screamed when they started putting that strike zone frame over the image.
Competed in 3 Arena tournaments
Ranked #21 (top 34%) with 1 game in ≤1300 Blitz Arena
Ranked #6566 (top 51%) with 2 games in 2025 Lichess Anniversary
Ranked #182 (top 100%) with 1 game in ≤1700 SuperBlitz Arena

1 win2 losses
Played 3 Blitz games12036
1 win
Played 1 Rapid game12736
Competed in 2 Arena tournaments
Ranked #38 (top 44%) with 1 game in ≤1300 Rapid Arena
Ranked #84 (top 95%) with 2 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena

5 wins7 losses
Played 12 Bullet games11629
3 wins3 losses
Played 6 Blitz games12094
1 win5 losses
Played 6 Rapid games126720
Posted 6 messages in Speculations on exoplanets
More challeges to (1) the presence of DMS on K2-18b, and (2) if DMS is there, is it from a biological origin or other pr…
@Dukedog said in #7: > @morphyms1817 > > Thank you. > > I understand planets have been found orbiting type G main sequen…
I think the next round of published articles about Trappist-1 e will announce findings favorable to the presence of ocea…
I am slightly curious what @thalassokrator may comment on, any, of these matters discussed above. :)
Some exoplanets that are discussed such as Trappist-1 e are comparable in size and density to Earth. I have read that if…
@JASKIRATSINGH said in #12: > I heard about some exo planets > on videos etc > they say, some have water or living circu…
Posted 1 message in How to find perfect gambit for yourself?
I don't like them. But, recently to break the monotony, I'm playing King's Gambit which is kind of fun. In more serious …
Posted 3 messages in Did you ever listen to FM or AM radio? What was your first favorite st…
@Clark30 said in #5: > I got a SONY Radio from the 80's or 90's. It works great! I'm listening to classical music on it …
@mortmann said in #7: > [Bayern 3] I looked at their programming schedule and will listen to some programs.
@mortmann said in #9: > i hope i wasnt wrong with BR3, could be BR2 instead. cannot check right now. you will find out. …
Gained 1 new follower
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Competed in 7 Arena tournaments
Ranked #26 (top 39%) with 3 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #58 (top 47%) with 1 game in ≤1500 Blitz Arena
Ranked #106 (top 79%) with 1 game in ≤1500 Rapid Arena
Ranked #67 (top 79%) with 2 games in ≤1300 Blitz Arena
Ranked #281 (top 91%) with 1 game in ≤1700 Rapid Arena
Ranked #553 (top 91%) with 1 game in ≤2000 Rapid Arena
Ranked #153 (top 91%) with 1 game in ≤1700 Rapid Arena

2 wins1 loss
Played 3 Blitz games12133
1 win1 loss
Played 2 Chess960 games12153
Posted 4 messages in Speculations on exoplanets
I had more given up on Proxima Centauri b having liquid water on its surface, due to the raging of its primary star. The…
Mr. Fellows discusses Proxima Centauri b in this video as its primary is a part of the Alpha Centauri system. https://yo…
@Dukedog said in #3: > @morphyms1817 > K2-18b seems to show promise with the detection of dimethyl sulfide a compound pr…
#3 #4 Fraser Cain is the founder of the space science website, Universe Today. In this video (segment beginning at 3:13)…
Posted 2 messages in Did you ever listen to FM or AM radio? What was your first favorite st…
I was a kid in Mississippi in the 70s', listened to a Top 40 AM radio station. For that market back then, their mix was …
@HerkyHawkeye said in #2: > “Country, Jesus, hillbilly, blues, it’s where I got my licks.” “I heard it, I heard it, I he…
Posted 2 messages in Brand new Horsey Design !! now Horsey can walk
@PLSDONTCLOSEMYACC said in #1: > giphy.com/stickers/transparent-ILvR2VIztJFYJitwGU He's cute!
The springiness implies a lower gravity on the horsey continent. Trampolines will be fun.
Posted 1 message in wich device do you use to play on lichess and how old is it ?
Pixel 6a On my pixel I use the website, I was not a fan of the app.
Posted 1 message in Teach an opening that makes me 1700 ELO
#1 I'm part of the "everyone can learn openings" school, however this is a bridge too far!
Competed in 2 Arena tournaments
Ranked #69 (top 56%) with 2 games in ≤1300 SuperBlitz Arena
Ranked #273 (top 58%) with 1 game in ≤2000 SuperBlitz Arena