Sixty-four squares of armistice
The Catalan after 3.g3: the bishop will wait in fianchetto, the pressure coming from afar. A patient opening, for a player who likes long plans.1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3
// white: catalan · black: caro-kann
A rated player. With White, the Catalan: patient, positional — the pressure comes from afar. With Black, the Caro-Kann: solid first, absorb before striking back.
A few markers. Board 3 for Benin's national team at the 3rd Francophonie Online Team Chess Championship, in May 2023 — named among the five players still on 6/6 after six rounds. A year earlier, winner of the Ayelade Chess Club monthly open, in August 2022, with 6.5/7.
Chess and nuclear medicine share one discipline: conclude nothing before you have looked at everything — the plan is read across the whole board, never on a single square.
On the shelf
A reader of long-form seinen — Berserk, Vinland Saga — and of psychological manga. Patient, demanding sagas that reward those who stay.