I used to play a lot of chess, at a reasonable competitive level. I could go toe to toe with 2000 elo rated players and scare masters the odd time. I am a maximalist not a minimumalist. meaning I do not dig in and wait for a mistake. I try to play in the style of my chess heros alexander alekine,mikhali tal, bobby fischer, and gary kasparov. force the enemy to make a mistake or die trying. what's the glory in waiting it out. I used to hate tigran petrossian and karpov. they wasted their talents on drudgery when they could have pursued art.

I played go and back gammon. when the folk café I used to haunt started playing go I took it up. I beat the folk player then went to a go club and discovered it wasn't as easy as it seemed. same for backgammon. I beat all the locals then when I watched a few pros I thought better of it.

however I gave up chess because it took up time I found could be better used to learn music!