billwall
Bill Wall
Palm Bay, FL, United States 
Member Since: May 18, 2007
Last Login: Aug 26, 2007
Points: 1158
Homepage: www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378
Birthday: May 11, 1951
Occupation: Systems Engineer
USCF Rating: 2000
About Me:
Senior Systems Engineer at Harris Corporation; tennis player and coach; retired Air Force officer (25 years); former NASA engineer (6 years at NASA Ames); former crew chief on B-52 bombers and KC-135Q tankers (4 years Southeast Asia); live just south of Cape Canaveral (see all the Shuttle launches and hear all the Shuttle landings); degrees in physics and electrical engineering; oldest of 9 brothers and sisters; married over 30 years;
My Chess Style / Favorite Openings:
Author of 29 chess books (500 xxx Miniature series, Grob, Larsen's, etc) and hundreds of chess articles; former President of Ohio Chess Association and NC Chess Association; former USCF delegate; co-editor of Ohio and NC state chess magazine; former secretary of Chess Journalists of America; former president of chess clubs in Dayton, Palo Alto, San Antonio, Melbourne; large chess library (over 1000 books); chess teacher
Submitted by
billwall on Aug 25, 2007 2:41pm.
The Trompowsky Attack is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 or 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5. It was named after Octavio Siqueiro F. Trompowsky (1897-1984) of Brazil. In 1939, he won the 9th Brazilian Championship and played Board 1 for Brazil in the 1939 Chess Olympiad hel...Read more »
