UWde

Scientist by day, stargazer at night, chess player in between

I'm a PhD as well as an arbiter so I'm not going to argue with you, I will just explain why I'm right. If you don't like that, put it in your pipe and smoke it. Magnus Carlsen might be better than me at chess (or maybe not, I never lost a game to him but we also never played), but he would probably be no match in a molecular cell biology exam.

I genuinely love playing chess in Ireland. Nothing beats playing a game of chess with a Guinness at hand, except winning a game of chess with a Guiness at hand and the lovely sound of an Irish tune played on a tin whistle afterwards. But a Guinness also helps tremendously to cope with a lost game. A Guinness just makes chess more fun. And life as well. Sláinte!