Ray Garrison

(I live in U.S. but right now, I am embracing my Canadian lineage. Canada forever!) that is me studying the position on the Manray chess set at the Toledo (Ohio) Art Museum in 2015....(it is a chigorin defence) ............................................................................................ I have won thirty-one championships in fourteen different games: Lyngk (seven times) Breakthrough (five times) Fendo (three times) Mini Shogi (twice) Conhex (twice) Ocean's Eleven (twice) EinsteinBlackhole (twice) Einstein 1 point (twice) Einstein 3 point Einstein Backwards Capture Amazons Catchup Dameo Qyps ......................... I also won both of the Monster Tournaments ............................................................................................ I have achieved a 2000 plus rating in twelve different games: Lyngk (2159) conhex (2004), chess (2286), shogi (2048), twixt (~2020), Amazons (2126), Four in a Row (~2075), Gomoku (2005), Breakthrough (2290), Einstein (2006), Slither (2046), Street Soccer (2107) ............................................................................................ I hold a USCF Candidate Master title for over the board chess tournament play (over 1000 tournaments) ............................................................................................ Interestingly, I hold the world record for latest castling in a game, google "latest castling chess" and you will find the game at the top of the search (I castled prematurely at move 48) ............................................................................................ I joined littlegolem in September 2005 and it has been a part of my life eversince.