billwall
Bill Wall
Palm Bay, FL, United States 
Member Since: May 18, 2007
Last Login: Oct 15, 2007
Points: 1486
Homepage: www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378
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 Oct 12, 2007 9:41pm.
It was round 1 of the first World Open, held in New York at the McAlapin Hotel in 1973. I was playing Black and was playing the Nimzo-Indian defense. I missed winning a pawn earlier and was too focused in being greedy to see the threat of...Read more »