Chess on lichess.org
Peak 2180 on Bullet
I know that takes time to study opening and experience.
I like chess but I don't have time to study it now.
I did play in one USCF tournament. I got a 2057 rating. I took one week off and play with my 2300 rated Novag Chess computer. But then I had to work 14 hour days because of a big project ( money ).
I now a I9 core and a video card with 2650 CUDA cores for running the Stockfish program on my computer. I watch YouTube chess channels about computer chess.
I object to calling the chess programs 'engines'. This is bad use of the term engines. Chess computers don't move anything like an engine does.
I wrote a chess program in the 1980s but it didn't do very well because of a lack of time and low processing power. It never borke 1700. Business and programming got in the way. I would watch my program calculate and display what it thinks should happen and sometimes I would cringe. That is when I knew I was much better than my program and entered as myself.
I have the ECOs and ECE in book form because it was the 1980s. Now you get them in a computer format.
There is another thread on this forum about passion. My first passion is business and the related motion control algorithms. Everything else takes a second seat to that but I play TT for the health of it. I played for 1.5 hours 4 times this week.
Now I play StarCraft Brood war more than chess. I will be retired at the end of the year and will have plenty of things to keep my occupied.
I just put new strings on my 1966 Gibson ES-330 TDC. It had been sitting in its case for 35+ years. Owning and running a business that competes with the likes of Siemens and Bosch is time consuming. I use to be pretty good at guitar but I didn't have the magic that I do when it comes to physics and math. Now I tried playing a few chords but my fingers don't have callouses so ouch. I intend to relearn and maybe even get one of those new midi keyboards ( Yamaha ES-373 ) for $200.
I forgot to add. I bought a 1 ton dually with an Arctic Fox 990 camper so I could go into the sticks. At night I sometimes play chess with the compuiters