By way of an introduction

You might know me as a Complete Chess Addict, but, technically speaking, obsessive is, I think, the correct word. I like to get these things right. You might know me as the organizer of Richmond Junior Chess Club, but, after 32 years, I've decided it's time to move on. I'm still teaching chess, though. Visit my website to find out more. You might have come here via chessKIDS academy, and, yes, I am planning to develop it further, but I was interrupted by a Person from Hogwarts

You might, I guess, have come here randomly. That's fine. Random, like different, is cool. Whatever, you're welcome to take a look inside my brain. At least that part I'm prepared to reveal to you. Feel free to believe, or disbelieve, whatever you want. I tell my pupils they need to know two things about me: 73% of everything I say is a joke, and I'm never more serious than when I'm joking.

In Real Life, which, for the most part, I try to avoid, I'm pretty quiet, sometimes close to non-verbal. But in My World I can be verbose about my interests. In fact my world is full of words, ideas and music. As on a web page, many of the words act as hyperlinks to other pages. So a blog seemed the ideal way of putting my thoughts into some sort of order.

I'm not good at taking criticism, but, if you'd like to agree with anything I say, please feel free to comment.