"Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy."
Siegbert Tarrasch
I love to play chess, and try to play regularly at regional tournaments and the Eastside Chess Club. (The club meets Wednesdays, 6-10pm, at the Jewish Community Center on River and Dodge. For more information on local chess, see the Southern Arizona Chess Association.) Stop by sometime for a friendly game.
I used to play actively in high school and college, but stopped once I entered graduate school. (My best result was sharing first place in the 1983 Arizona State Junior Championship with Richard Ketcham.) After not playing in a tournament for almost fifteen years, during Christmas break of 1998 I played in the Atlanta Open and was once again bitten by the chess bug.
Below are links to some chess-related sites, and to a collection of my games from tournaments. Enjoy!
'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days
Where destiny, with men for pieces, plays,
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one, back in the closet, lays.
EDWARD FITZGERALD
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam