Chess Bio
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I started playing in Kentucky in 1980
mostly at the insistence of a fellow eighth-grade student named
David Ruffalo. I turned out to be better at chess but then again he
had a PhD by the time I got my undergraduate degree, so I don't
think the chess thing troubled him much. |
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David organized a middle-school
championship tournament. I prepared by practicing every day against
my brother's interminably slow Fidelity Chess Challenger 7. By
whatever fluke of luck I won the tournament, which had two results:
I was hooked, and it brought me to the attention of a kid named
Brett Moore, who demanded that I join the high school chess team the
following year. Played my first rated tournament in 1982 and emerged
with a fine rating of 943. |
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Went to the University of North Carolina and achieved expert
rating; won the Kentucky state championship in the summer of 1987. Moved to
Framingham in 1990 and have been attending MetroWest CC (original name was
Framingham CC) erratically ever since. Generally clinging to expert status
by the skin of my teeth these days, but it's kind of like golf: every once
in a while I play a good game and that keeps me going. In real life I'm the
editor of a magazine about security called CSO. |
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