About Me
- Name: transformation
- Location: Tacoma-Seattle, Washington, United States
Born in New Jersey and educated in New York, after practicing architecture, I lived in a zen temple in Korea, did a long stint on Wall Street as a Senior Broker, studied with a guru who lived with Maharishi in India, did a gigantic stint at a big box retailer in building materials. * Most recently was running a Cloud Computing start-up in NJ, but starting over here in Tacoma where people are very nice, and where--aside from out of mainstream urbanism--I love the weather. * Me? I try to be pretty straightforward in my conduct. In 2012 worked for a crazy big company, and wonder why, but what is it called, a market. * I am not easily forgotten. Vanity? Yes. But it is also true that the older I get, the less can I be ignored. I have things to say, and say them. Take it or leave it, I am who I am. I have paid my dues. I have done my time.
My Other Blogs
- The System of the System, Type III Learning, dk's heuristic blog
- Heuristical Worker, My Video Resumes
- Heuristical Personae, Personal et al.
- West Orange Chess Club
- LinkedIn Profile, David Korn
- Heuristical, dk at Twitter, more of my idiosyncratic side...
- front row seat, dk's investment blog
- Career Transformation, David Korn's Resume
- Contact Transformation here -----> to request copies of 5,231 GM Classic Game Database : -------- pgn format (chessBase file)
Blogs I Never Fail to Read
Secretary Knight
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- THE chess cooking blog! reassembler
- chess pawnography
- liquid egg product
- Out of the Ether
- edwin meyer, or ookwelbekendalsemc
- chess blog for chess funs, chess gambiter
- glenn wilson chess
- Nobis, Chess - On the Road to GM
- rayChess
- Wahrheit, robert pearson
- chess vortex or LaskoVortex of CTS
- loomis
- phorku
- greg's chess progress
- atomic patzer
- wormwood
- happyhippo, or lousy@chess new
- joshua
- blue devil knight
- David Glickman, blogger historian
- Kevin in Reno or drunknknite
- Eric Shoemaker, general
- rook van winkle
- i wanna get better at chess
- i, or getting to 2000
- blunderprone
- big five chess, or Tynicas
- Zweiblumen, Steve Wollkind
- tony west, or tony's chess
- chess relearner
- old like forests
- new like forests
- takchess
- castling queenside
- Michael Goeller
- chess-training, or Mark
- cludi, or Claus Jensen (ref. Wormwood)
- Christian, or mousetrapper
- lithium e4
- life master or bust
- qxh7#, Jim
- Eric Shoemaker, openings
- goddesschess
- chess teacher, chris pearson
- blog of a chess nut
- harvey (new): New Met League, Correspondence Chess
- harvey (old): correspondence-chess-in-cyberspace
- Self Flagellation to the Goddess Caissa
- Tom Chivers, Streatham & Brixton Chess Club
- Jack Le Moine
- begin chess
- mythology or new xy
- sciurus
- down under knight
- the chess apprentice, maxwell843
- under promoted knight
- Globular, Matt
- chess teaching
- sancho pawnza
- Man de la Maza
- rapid chess, Hibernia
- chessbase.com
- the week in chess
- CTS, or chess tactical server
- chessCafe.com
- TWIC weekly updates for database hounds
- FIDE top 100 ratings
- FICS
- BabaChess: Free Internet Chess Client
- ICC, Internet Chess Club
- CT-Art 3.0
- PCT: Personal Chess Trainer
- CPT: Chess Position Trainer, for openings
- rybka home page (I dont own it, but am fascinated!)
- AJ Goldsby (all over the place but early blog pioneer w/passion!)
- john Jerz, and chess AI
- chessVibes.com (sometimes!)
- top ICC ratings tracker (fun but no longer automatically updated)
- Red Hot Pawn (Smart correspondence chess w/good comment forums)
- pawn shaman
- lousy@chess previous
- the rise and shine good knight
- knight's defence
- hungarianknight
- Boris Shakhmatov
- jusah
- keystor
- cratercat
- Fierabras
- grande merdra
- poisen ivy
- old xy, caught in the fire
- pawn sensei
- J'adoube
- nezhmetdinov
- Eric Shoemaker, best games
- abend
- sir pino
- old edwin meyer, or dutch defence
- generalkaia
- montse, move up
- kingofthespill
- celticdeath
- patrick, chess for blood
- bahus, patzer's mind
- Attila Turzo
- spacecowboy
Edgy or Alternative or Ecclectic Quality Chess Blogs that I Never Fail to Read
Other High Quality Chess Focused Blogs that I Dont Want to Miss and/or might publish less often or look at less frequently
Other Chess Focused Blogs that I look at
FICS/ICC Bullet Lore
Professional blogs
Some Other Notable Chess Blogs Not to forget
Other Chess Blogs
With No Offence to Anyone: Recently Inactive and/or Quality Blogs
my daily bread: resources and tools
With No Offence to Anyone: Old or Inactive Blogs [ALL above a MASSIVE SORT, and then, in kind, this below will be sorted next but for obvious reasons not important now]