Dog Diary. Year ONE on Lichess!

As you know, time flies like an arrow and... fruit flies like a banana. Anyroad, it's been a whole year since I appeared on Lichess, so let me gather a few noteworthy recollections here.

Friends

When it hasn't been your day, your week
Your month, or even your year...

First and foremost - I've met a lot of beautiful people here:
Re and Papa Cammie, Lee, Gem, Marco, the Spirit, Bishoy, Wolfie and Bubbles are only a few of them.
And surely I can't help mentioning @Jmilie... sorely missed and never forgotten.

May your journey lead you to the light.

Puzzles and Things

It was @Jmilie who motivated me to make posts and puzzles. And a bit later we created Atomic Puzzles for Beginners - a study where you will find some basic Atomic concepts & ideas followed by a bunch of easy puzzles.

It was great fun making puzzles and I quite like many of them but this particular one is probably me favourite -

See Hard - 1 (Opening).

I also wrote short reviews on 5 chess books [Non-Fiction] and created a chess/film game.

Most memorable games

1. This one against @Vamto from a Weekly Atomic Arena came down in history as 'Horsey goes right, horsey goes left':

There were a lot of wins there but from move 14 the only thing I saw was... well, that horsey goes right, horsey goes left (don't drink and play!).

2. I haven't played 960 all that much but this game goes to show how crazy blunderous it could be - beating an IM in 8 moves:

3. Finally I managed to beat @Wolfram_EP with black (and it only took me about a year). 'Oh no, my wolf' moment -

4. And lastly, but not leastly, - my grandiose loss to @AhSoka14, a 983 rated player at the time. 'Oh no, my dog' moment -

Goals for year TWO

For a short while I was floundering about in the Atomic top 50 and on October 18th reached my peak rating of 2186, so the first aim is

2200+ in Atomic

Then I'd like to become

2200+ Bullet and Blitz

2300+ Rapid

Tournament-wise my highest achievement was this hat-trick I completed in December winning Monthly, Weekly and Daily -

Realising that the Yearly is probably out of my paws' reach, I'd like to go for an

Atomic Shield

This year I've played three 960 matches against:

1 - the illustrious @ReChesster, who came all the way from Antarctica where he famously resides;
2 - the fast and versatile @Quasabianth;
3 - the ferocious (and fluffy) @Wolfram_EP

The scoreline is
4 - 7
4.5 - 7.5
1 - 7

That is why my next goal is to

Win an Atomic 960 match

And finally - let's dream big - I'd like to

Beat a GM

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That's it, thank you everyone!
Best wishes,
Elio