Flickas

       “Alekhine was everything a chess player ought to be—an abusive, selfish, alcoholic womanizer, with a talent for making enemies and a liking for cats.”  William Hartson Soft Pawn

"Normally you don't want to get a bad position out of the opening with white but--sometimes--why not?" Ian Nepomniachtchi

Have not played much chess since my father's death 10 years ago. After a lifetime of healing my sadness and loss with chess, I found no consolation in the game my father loved so.

I choose not to play immediate rematches in blitz. I do not mean to offend anyone with my policy---this is only online blitz and not crucial. I just want to play a wide variety of players. I also will not avoid anyone unless you have a really awful picture. I do have limits.

Anyone wondering how I have developed such a brilliant level of chess in my dotage (almost 1600 children on a good day) puzzle rush and chess.com tactics are the best thing chessically since sliced bread.

And remember if you turn an engine on while playing the only person you are helping is me.

Paul Morphy said to play chess well was the sign of a wasted life. What would he have thought of bug?

Now I have ascended Everest and am a 1700 Bughouse player, I can only say If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants.     

On the Ukrainian war, I quote FDR—“We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.”