Personal Notes

memphamous Horoblitz CarpeRookem, Edutk, Pawntrader66, AHighSchoolBoy, Bronstein (deceased Jack Smith, David is gone as well), Conquerer, Edrosian, eoman, evaster, MoltenThinker, NogoodJr,

GAdmiralThrawn, OhBehave, publicenemy, SCARLETTE, Tiger17, TheChessKid, Totomac, weirdboy2006, What, xbluebolt, zdrakec, and nosir are my friends on the ICC!

Favorite books: NCO by Nunn, all of the Informants and ECO's, Botvinnik on the End Game, Think Like a Grandmaster by Kotov, My 60 Memorable Games by Fischer, Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch,

Practical Rook Endings by Mednis, Basic Chess Endings by Fine, Masters of the Chessboard by Reti, Judgement and Planning in Chess by Euwe, Chess Psychology by Krogius, Die Franzosische Verteidigung by Schwartz, Practical Chess Endings by Keres, My System by Aron Nimzovich, and the new MCO 15

www.memphischess.com has been archived to https://web.archive.org/web/20210524143315/http://www.memphischess.com/index.html

GM Sam Palatnik is my friend and past teacher. Sam's style of chess is like Capablanca, Fischer, Tarrasch, and Morphy.

Enjoy being a TD on the ICC and USCF.

People have accused me of cheating on the ICC because once my Blitz rating was over 2400. An admin named Tortonpion approved of me using a real 2400 player to combat cheaters. This was before the advent of super playing programs or algorithms that have been used in recent online events.

I do not care if you use a slick program to beat me. You do not learn anything by cheating.

I do not play online anymore unless it is a tournament with zoom. Cheating is really bad. You know it is bad when you see an IM rated 1398. I may play an unrated game, but even then some players resort to cheating to win.

Server Ratings Details

Type Wild Rating 1370 Best 1821 (13/Oct/2002)
Type Blitz Rating 1926 Best 2414 (05/Oct/1998)
Type Standard Rating 1983 Best 2029 (22/Jan/2022)
Type Bullet Rating 1187 Best 1656 (30/Oct/1998)
Type Bughouse Rating 1358 Best 1467 (11/Apr/1999)
Type Loser's Rating 1459 Best 1660 (09/May/1999)
Type Crazyhouse Rating 1262 Best 1530 (30/Jun/2001)
Type 5-minute Rating 2086 Best 2320 (28/Feb/2003)
Type 1-minute Rating 1242 Best 1346 (21/Oct/2008)
Type 15-minute Rating 2239 Best 2263 (07/Apr/2017)
Type 3-minute Rating 1732 Best 1998 (24/Apr/2016)
Type Chess960 Rating 1530 Best
Type 25-minute Rating 2059 Best

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