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        Welcome to my chess pages.
      I am a FIDE master, chess writer and coach. Though currently retired from active competition I am looking to help
      a new generation of chessplayers to have fun, learn and improve their skills! 
       
        Teaching chess 
        Some information about how I coach chessplayers. 
        
       
  
      My chessplaying history 
        A resumé of the highlights of my life in chess. 
       
  
        
      
  
        My Best Games 
        A few pleasing displays of competence at the chessboard!
  
        
       
        My writings on chess 
        Includes both previously published and new materials.
  
     
       
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 "Chess is the touchstone of the intellect." 
                    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  
                    "A bad day at chess is better than any good 
                    day of chasing some silly little dimpled ball all over somebody's 
                    cow pasture." - Mitchell White (Fellow golfers, take note!) 
                  "Chess is not a whit inferior to the violin." 
                    - Mikhail Botvinnik  
                  "A chess tournament is not a horse race. 
                    Besides official results, it leaves something much more important: 
                    games, products of human intellect." - Mikhail Krasenkov (NIC 
                    1998/6) 
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