First Blog (introduction)

So this is my first blog, I hope you find it semi-interesting.

My name is Todd. I like looking for chess-related stuff on the Internet and happened, one night, to come upon a blog called "chess confessions" that was talking about "zombie chess"! It was so funny I had to check out more posts on the blog and eventually discovered there is a group of chess bloggers who call themselves the "Knights Errant" (a Don Quixote reference) and subscribe to a method of chess improvement called the Seven Circles, espoused by this guy Michael De La Maza in his book Rapid Chess Improvement. The method involves going over large segments of tactical puzzles daily until you've mastered them, then moving onto the next segment, or Circle, of puzzles.

I was intrigued and studied up on the author MDLM and his proponents and detractors. It struck me as funny that some people took all this stuff so seriously and got into really heated debates about the matter. I haven't decided whether I am going to try the Circles, but I did decide to start my own chess blog!

Anyway, here's what you need to know about me...

1. I'm a 26 yr old guy.
2. I'm finishing my degree in Respiratory Therapy.
3. I have a wife and a son; one of which I have to bribe to play chess and the other is too young, you figure out which is which.
4. I am always busy with work and school and have time for only 1 hobby.
5. I chose chess as my hobby.

So, sometimes my blogs will be about chess and sometimes they'll be about stuff. Sometimes they'll be about chess and stuff.

Right now it's 12:44AM and I have to get up in about 6 hours, so I'll need to conclude my first blog. Hopefully they'll get better.