Ketan Kulkarni
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I dont exactly remember when I started playing chess but I was quite young then. As far as I remember my grandmother taught me the basics and was the opponent I played against the most times when I was a kid. I cant say that I am really good at it but I do like to play it a lot. Favourite format is rapid (15 + increment or 30 min). I also follow the professional chess scene, altough not closely. Favourite players to watch are:
- GM Magnus Carlsen : The current World Chess Champion
- GM Hikaru Nakamura : Also known as BLitz King Nakamura
- GM Vishwanathan Anand : Highest rated Indian chess GM and also former World Champion
As you saw from the home page I am a huge PC gamer. I will play any game as long as it has a good story line and/or great mechanics. If I start listing through all the games that I have played then the page will be filled with only game names :P. So I will just name a few from some categories and my personal long time favourites.
- DOTA 2: Best MOBA game out there in my honest opinion (3000+ hours played :P)
- CS GO: No debates here...When it comes to FPS this is THE KING (1000+ hours played :P)
- Age of Empires 2: Now what can I say about this game..Its an old school classic that I never get bored of
- Assassins Creed: Well cant chhose one so choose the entire franchis :D
- RTS games: Warcraft 3, Starcraft 1 and 2, Empire Earth, Age of Mythology, Rise of Nations, Command and Conquer Series, etc...you get the point right :P
- And many many more...
If you saw the slideshow you pretty much know I am a weeb :P. But seriously the world of anime is such a wonderful place that once you are here you won't ever leave. I started by watching Naruto and Death Note and from then onwards I never looked back. Usually watching anime is all fun until they hit you with the music and the epic lines that make you go into a deep think and realize...yeah I am also guilty of doing this. Just like games I have watched too many animes to note them all but here are a few of my top picks:
- Hunter X Hunter : Starts of as a goofy show about 4 kids and slowly evolves into something so much more...
- Death Note : Well I am pretty sure most people know about this. Only one thing to say.."I am Justice!":D
- Code Geass: Oh boy. where do I even start with this one? Just go watch it atleast till S2 end and you will know how I feel aboout it.
- Naruto : Caan't forget the one show that brough me this wonderful place now can we :D
- One Punch Man : Caped Baldy...thats all I have to say :P
- Konosuba : "A true believer of Gender Equality"...thats all XD
Cant be a professional gamer? No worries this is the next best thing for me :D. I started in Unity 3D engine and have developed a few games but nothing till completion. Read through and followed a lot of tutorials by Brackeys, Blackthornprod, Dani Games, etc. I also started with OpenGL 3.3 but gave up mid way through cause I was not able to grasp it properly just from a book. Hoping that I will get the feeling to work on those incomplete projects sometimes and published them as full fledged games soon :D.
And finally we come to reading. I am a picky reader...I love reading fiction and scifi books, books about space without maths, encyclopedias, etc. I hate reading autobiographys', newspapers (Though I do read the sports section daily :P) and TEXTBOOKS! My favourite book is without a doubt "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" by "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle". The level of observation and deduction prowess show cased in the book is so high and some trivial things that I can say for sure, you can definitely pick up a thing or two which can be applied in daily life. A few other book series I liked are :
- Harry Potter Series
- Tales of Narnia
- Hardy Boys
- Secret Seven
- Agatha Cristie
- Famous Five
