User:Krakatoa
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I started as Frederick R, then switched to this handle after about a week. In real life, I live in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb, and hometown of Hillary Clinton), with my wife, daughter, dog, and two cats. Professionally, I am an attorney practicing in Chicago. [1] I published an article, "Waiver in the Federal Courts," in the Fall 1996 issue of the Appellate Law Review.
I hold the titles of National Master (awarded in 1983) and Senior Master of Correspondence Chess (awarded in 1997) from the United States Chess Federation.[2] I finished with an even score (+2 =8 -2) in the 1997 United States Absolute Championship, which is open to the top 13 correspondence players in the United States who accept their invitations. I have published two of my best chess games in Chess Informant, both of which were also cited in the Encyclopedia of Chess Openings and other works. (See below for games.)
I have primarily written and contributed to chess-related articles. I am particularly proud of my article about Swindle (chess). I have also written articles about Rosendo Balinas, Jr., the Balogh Defense, the Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Istvan Csom, the Czech Defense, the desperado piece, dice chess, Echidne of the Snakes (not chess-related), the English Defense, Golden Knights (chess), John Grefe, the Immortal losing game, the Irish Gambit, the Italian Game, Lubomir Kavalek, Anatoly Lein, the List of Ethnic Chess Openings, Dragoljub Minić, Leopold Mitrofanov, the Parham Attack (Quale ended up contributing a lot to that one), the Peruvian Immortal, Arshak Petrosian, the Polish Defense, the Polish Immortal, Ilya Smirin, and the Toilet Variation; writing most of the article about Fred Reinfeld, which had been a stub; adding a lot of content to Checkmate, Hippopotamus Defence, Passed pawn, Staunton Gambit, and Stalemate; and contributing to myriad other articles. I wrote an article about February 12, 1809, probably the greatest birthday in history (Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on that date), but the Wikipedia community to my dismay voted to delete it. I am also interested in law, liberal politics and blogging. If acting in plays (rather than films) counted toward a Bacon number, I would have a Bacon number of 3, having acted in school plays with Chris Rolfes, who has a Bacon number of 2.
The problem immediately below was not (unfortunately) composed by me, but by Mitrofanov. It is a corrected version of his original problem, which won first prize in the 1967 Rustaveli tournament. That problem had Black's knight on g2 instead of f3 (see algebraic notation), but turned out to have a cook. I bring it to your attention because I was so amazed and impressed by it. White, on move, is to play and win. The solution is here.
[edit] My chess problemBelow is a chess problem I composed in 2005. It was published in "Benko's Bafflers" in the May 2006 issue of Chess Life magazine. It is based on a simpler problem I composed in 2001, which was also published in "Benko's Bafflers." (In the earlier problem, there are no knights on c5 or d3, White's rook is on h1 rather than h4, and Black's bishop is on e5 rather than d6.) White, on move, is to play and force a draw. The solution is here.
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