I'm your basic idiot savant when it comes to chess, except I'm no savant. I'm Ron from Los Alamos, New Mexico (US). This site rocks! I don't play games with 3 day timeouts - lost too many over 3 day weekends that way. That's all I have to say about that. Welcome advice from anyone that has any for me.
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