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About GeniusProphecy.com Chess

About the site and webmaster

This is a website which provides strategies, tips and advice on chess. Topics discussed include chess openings, strategy, variants and improvement. This chess site has been running since mid-2007.

I have been playing chess for more than half my life now. Before I started playing serious tournaments, I first played on the internet for several months, which turned out to be an excellent practical decision. Many players immediately play nationally rated games as beginners, and find that they start off with very low ratings which will be a pain to try and improve on, even if they're actually much better. Eventually, I dabbled my way into tournaments. I started obtaining chess coaching after about 2 years since I learned the rules. One of the important things I learned in this period was that the opening repertoire I had adopted, seemingly be chance, was not ambitious and I should have a complete overhaul of my openings systems. My competence for the game grew fairly fast and after playing for about 6 years, I won the Australian U16 Chess Championship.

I had a major breakthrough at the end of 2006, winning a tournament in front of 1 GM and several IMs. This increased my Australian rating from about 1881 to 2084, and my FIDE from 2066 to 2152.

Since the end of 2007, I have almost completely stopped playing tournament chess due to personal reasons. I have only played two long time control tournaments in the last two years. Incidentally, I won all 10 games I played, so my Australian rating is somewhat inflated.

I have a FIDE rating of 2146 (07/2010) and an ACF rating of 2256 (03/2010). My peak FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs) rating was 2189 and my ACF (Australian Chess Federation) rating is currently at its peak.

I am actively playing on the Internet Chess Club (ICC). Click here to see the live statistics for my ICC account. The statistics are reasonably self-explanatory; the "need" section (not very important) is the number of games needed in order to make the rating active. If the "need" is 6 or above, then I probably haven't played that category for at least a month. I haven't played "standard" games for years.

I devote my spare time to practicing (mainly online these days) and studying chess because I love the strategical deepness of the game. I have put the article date on the bottom right corner of each page. You may find that newer articles contain more eloquent language as my English improves over the years.

Website's advertising and donations

This website relies almost exclusively on advertising to be able to keep afloat. These include text and image advertisements scattered around many of the articles. This subdomain contains only free information and does not sell any products. Everything I put up on this subdomain is free of charge, but there are still hosting and domain costs. Feel free to support us if possible.

Contact

You can now contact us through the guestbook service available for this website (launched in December 2009). It is also possible to contact through email, but for comments, queries and article suggestions, please use the guestbook. If you are interested in advertising on this website, please send us an email.

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About the host

This site is hosted by HostGator, one of the top 10 providers of webhosting in the world with over 2,200,000 hosted domains. I am currently on the "Baby" plan which allows unlimited bandwidth and disk space, plus the ability to host an unlimited number of websites (add-on/parked domains). Like all major web host providers, it has a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Other bonuses include a 45-day money back guarantee, unlimited subdomains, unlimited FTP accounts and the satisfaction that the hosting is powered by green sources. I used to use Yahoo GeoCities, but HostGator is much better value for money. I highly recommend it!

Copyright

All pages on this website are. Please note that anything written on this site is automatically copyrighted according to law, regardless if the © copyright symbol is placed on the page.

Thanks for visiting this website!

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Posted by Webmaster on Wednesday, July 7, 2010.