DforChess will initially serve two purposes ... 1. To present my book Chess for Ordinary Mortals.  Most "average" players seek to improve their game but the usual sources are written by the game's elite, masters and above.  Their concepts of chess are deep and geared to their skills in thinking many moves ahead of Mr Average.  In my younger days I found it a struggle to relate these ideas to the error strewn play and tactical failings of my level of play.  And there was no master sitting by my side to answer questions!
"My level" ... and what might that be, you may ask.  I was, at my peak, what may be described as a strong club player.  I represented on many occasions my county, Leicestershire, and, in the county championship, I faced over-the-board several up-and-coming stars of the British chess scene including future GMs Mark Hebden and Glen Flear.  In simuls I met among the established super-stars the redoubtable (though then only 14) Nigel Short.  My book attempts to present lessons and advice gleaned from my games at this intermediate level in the hope that advanced learners and those perhaps just below average can push their gradings up a few notches.  But, above all else, I hope to entertain as well as 'educate'.
2.  To present my second masterpiece (deliberate if inaccurate pun), The Stonewall Attack.  My own penchant when playing White is to open with d4.  This was not always so.  An analysis of my previous e4 games showed only a 2:1 plus when allowed to play the Giocco opening but poor results against some others, especially the Sicilian.  Sometime long ago, against d4 - to cut a long story short - I 'discovered' the Dutch.  The Stonewall variation gave me excellent results and eventually, durh, I thought "why don't I play this in reverse with the white pieces".  I will even have a move in hand.  Imagine my surprise when this wasn't in any of the books on openings I possessed at that time.  But I took it up with spectacular success. (I have not to date looked up the origins of this Attack but could it be that I invented it ?  I certainly did as far as my using it.  Furthermore, as readers of this book will discover, I developed a unique, disguised way of playing it).

So, here goes .........