Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

No, I do not want to sacrifice four days for two games. My time is too valuable to do that

I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

An amusing fact: as far as I can recall, when playing the Ruy Lopez I have not yet once in my life had to face the Marshall Attack!

First of all, we have to go back to the classical time control.