LOCATION      North Hykeham Lincolnshire.

PERSONAL     Married to Tina, son Daniel just 4 and already moving the pieces  I am slightly younger than the hills but no longer feel it.

CHESS INFO  Play for Lincoln in Lincolnshire League, Grantham in Notts League. Pawnster on ICC. Occasional flashes of combinational brilliance balanced with frequent blunders on a gargantuan scale.

CHESS HIGH  Got to be the look on Alan Smiths face as it dawned on him that this patzer had him by the proverbials during County game against Greater Mancunia.  I guess this Pandoras mularkey gives me a great feeling of pride in the odd moments when I am not cursing it all !

CHESS LOW Gave the game up for nearly 20 years and only came back to it 5 years ago. Scoring a tired 0/5 on the Sunday of the British Rapidplay Major last year after leading with an inspired 5.5/6 on day one. Oh yeah and scoring a partial fide last year just below a trained chimp (3 losses on saturday trying to organise team and track down wayward northerners !)

HOBBIES      Football, History,Pre-Raphaelite Art,anything my boy wants me to do next !

MUSIC         Rock for the music, great  ballads for the lyrics. Currently listening to KMFDM,Sabbath,ACDC and as well as Dylan, Enya, and Green on Red. Broken Home Band and Flogging Molly are definitely top of my latest playlist - "If I ever leave this world alive". Yeah ok Bob the Foos are quickly rising up the playlist too !

CHARACTER Private,grumpy,witty,introspective, who spends half his time wishing he hadn't wasted every opportunity in his life - and the other half doing just that.

AMBITION     Improve my chess, bring up my son to be as great and as happy as he can be...stop him becoming another me i guess.

QUOTES      "Did you think I would leave you dying, when there's room on my horse for two"

                          "Now is the time the boys will be separated from the men. It is the biggest decision you must be willing to make in your chess career. You must add gambits to your opening system (Note: I said add to- not give up your basic system). You must play them, win with them, and lose with them. There is no substitute. Being a pawn down, you will have to dig into each position on each move. You will learn to use that extra space and tempo. You will develop that "killer instinct" and learn to handle open positions-being ready when that closed position will surely become open. Those than cannot stand to lose games and rating points because they are converting to gambit play are hopeless in my book. Do not cry with them when they are on "that chess hill they can't climb", and do not feel sorry when they start slipping backward. For with stubbornness and cowardice, they did not play gambits and dug their own chess graves!"

WHY PBCC ? Hell, why not ? If we do not take chess in this county and drag it kicking and screaming into the big wide world then it will languish as a chess backwater forever.