Silk

Still a primary school teacher, still balding. Now bearded. SLIGHTLY greying - yet. Still wearing glasses. Still male. Still healthy

A special salute to Apocalyptic Tortonpion, knightrunner, Undadog, Molton, ratty, Borovnia, neeltje2, cristoforo, SwedenForces, Lisebeth and JahNow!!

SwedenForces(280): I think bullet players are funny. When they lose it is always 1.Someone at the door 2. The phone rang. 3. The opp lagged. 4. I lagged. 5.Bad mouse. 6. Was chatting with someone else during the game. 7. slip. 8. My opponent bagged. 9. My sister annoyed me. 10. Opp was lucky.

Silk is averaging 53 ms latency (241 samples, std dev 95 ms)Ping time to Silk: 13 milliseconds. There are certain advantages to visiting New York :)

Married to the wonderful Kristy, whom I love very much :) Father of Cassandra Holly, born 15th December 2009!!!

Apocalyptic tells you: I seem to play more chess when I am either A) Stressed, B) Upset, C) Tired. A) It takes my mind off it. B) I get to make other people upset with me. C) It wakes me up!

Endgames are hard. It's difficult to look at my now old finger notes and accept that most of those people are no longer online or I rarely talk to them.

ICC not being what it was, I find myself renewing my love affair with the game itself, I'm trying to improve my skills for the 1st time in over a decade and I am interested in whether it can be done.

I blog about all sorts of things at www.lindsaywent.com