tharg

Galactic Greetings!

Club player and lover of all types of chess, blitz, problems, GM tourneys...

"Suddenly, something occurred outside his being, a scorching pain - and he let out a loud cry, shaking his hand stung by the flame of a match, which he had lit and forgotten to apply to his cigarette. The pain immediately passed, but in the fiery gap he had seen something unbearably awesome, the full horror of the abysmal depths of chess." V. Nabakov, The Luzhin Defense