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www.memphischess.com has been archived to https://web.archive.org/web/20210524143315/http://www.memphischess.com/index.html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