Bio
I'm co-head of municipal research for Nuveen Asset Management with responsibility for approximately $80 billion of assets. I am a married father of two: a four year old girl and a newborn boy.
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell."
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."
-H.L. Mencken
"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion."
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."
"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."
"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
-Thomas Hobbes
Rating Trend
Rated Won / Drawn / Lost
All Rated
69 games
As White
42 games
As Black
27 games
Stats
- Games Played
- 71
- Rated
- 69
- Won
- 17
- Lost
- 54
- Drawn
- 0
- In Progress
- 0
- All Moves
- 1608
- Moves This Month
- 0
- Tourn. Entry Rating
- 929
Rated Color
All
69 games
Won
17 games
Lost
52 games
Drawn
0 games
Rated Timeouts
Won
5 games
Lost
17 games
Historical
Highest Rating | 999 | 999 | 1131 |
Average Rating | 952 | 952 | 1037 |
Lowest Rating | 907 | 907 | 907 |
Opponent Average Rating | 1186 | 1186 | 1251 |
Games Rated | 18 | 18 | 69 | 90 days | 1 Year | 5 Years |
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Affiliated Clans
No affiliated clans
Affiliated Clubs
No affiliated clubs
Tournament Victories
No tournament wins yet
Awards
Ladder Rank
No ladder entered
Notes
Moves This Month is the number of moves made since the 1st of the month.
Highest Rating excludes provisional (first 20) games.
Tournament Entry Rating is calculated by the formula (CurrentRating + HighestRating) / 2.
The entry rating will never drop to more than 100 points below your Highest Rating.
Rated stats are updated within 24 hours of the last completed rated game.
Last refreshed on 24 Apr 12.