[center][h1][color=fdc68a]♔ Henry Koning ♚[/color][/h1][/center] [hider=+] [color=fdc68a][b]Name:[/b][/color] Henry "Harry" Koning [b][color=fdc68a]Age:[/color][/b] 22 [color=fdc68a][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] [center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/7fede410-8749-4f58-aeed-d5683a1ebaa9.jpg[/img][/center] [center][i]Hair looks like actor's picture[/i][/center] [color=fdc68a][b]Height:[/b][/color] 5'8 [color=fdc68a][b]Weight:[/b][/color] 164 lbs [color=fdc68a][b]Likes:[/b][/color] • [b]Chess[/b] • Puzzle games • Watching sports, especially football + baseball • Travelling • A healthy work life balance [color=fdc68a][b]Dislikes:[/b][/color] • Impatience • Unnecessary mistakes • Addictive substances • Improper/Unsportsmanlike behavior [color=fdc68a][b]Zodiac Sign:[/b][/color] Pisces (He doesn't believe in this) [color=fdc68a][b]Special Talent:[/b][/color] [b]Chess:[/b] Being co-champion in the US Championship, and positive performance in international tournaments, Henry's chess talent cannot be dismissed. This translate to a variety of more general skills like memorization, visualization, pattern recognition as well as maintaining calmness in most situations. [color=fdc68a][b]Profession:[/b][/color] Titled chess player. Chess coach at Delta Chess Club. Undergraduate Computer Science and Mathematics at Delta University. [color=fdc68a][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Generally a pretty chill person, Henry does not get angry quickly, nor does he express his emotions in outbursts, though he does tend to let out how he feels in a calm yet blunt way. In normal times, he tends to be pretty laid-back, and thanks to the money he raked from tournaments, chess coach and events, he could afford to enjoy the spectacles of life that he misses when he's focused on competitive chess, learn new things that he doesn't get to learn often. Without him stating it, or the sight of him playing in clubs/universities/on the streets with random people, you'd never guess he's a professional chess player. Nonetheless, Henry is still a very competitive person at his core. He treats every loss seriously and every mistake he makes both in chess and in real life critically, while victories are well-deserved and something to be proud of. He does not have any qualm to tolerate crap when it comes to the things he love, and he's more than willing to shove them back at the offenders in his trademark brutal honesty. [color=fdc68a][b]Bio:[/b][/color] Henry was born in 1966 in Florida to a family of Dutch refugees to the United States due to World War 2. His mother, Alida, had rough times trying to get by in the new living environment, and by the time of Henry's birth, she was homeless, separated (and later divorced) from her husband, and was forced to live in a van, shuttled to do different jobs to feed herself and Henry. Young Henry did not have formal elementary education, but to him it was his mother's van, where she taught him basic subjects like math, English, etc. When he was old enough to go to middle school, however, Alida had found a stable enough job and settled in a cheap run-down apartment, and he enrolled in the local Floridian middle school, where he discovered his future career as a chess player. The chess genius Bobby Fischer who singlehandedly beaten the Soviet chess machine and dethroned Boris Spassky in 1972 inspired a wave of chess popularities in schools across the United States, including Henry's middle school with a small but cozy group of friends and teachers with interests in the game. There, Henry began to display his aptitude for the game, defeating all his peers easily after a few weeks of learning. One of the teachers then introduced him to a chess simul in Texas with a chess master and former national champion. Henry played and held his positions for over 40 moves, drawing crowds of onlookers, before being beaten. His performance, however, got people's attention, and he was introduced to attend the Florida Chess Club where he was coached properly by chess professionals. He gradually developed a solid and conservative playstyle that is difficult to crack open but often leads to draw positions. Attending a Florida high school, Henry won two state championship in 1980 and 1981. His first brush with the US champion came in 1982, where the intimidation of going on the big league led to a less than stellar performance. By the time of his high school graduation, he surpassed the FIDE rating of 2300. In the same year, he redeemed his previous year's performance by becoming the US co-champion, losing only to the previous year's candidate. After high school, Henry hesitated on going further into college and instead spent his next few years trying to improve his and his mother's living conditions. They moved to Delta City, and using his chess talent and riding on what's left of the chess boom left from Fischer's time, Henry coached young chess players as well as participating in chess events in multiple states for money. During this time, he also participated in multiple international chess tournaments, including one in Paris and in Latvia, finishing 9th and 4th place respectively. All these efforts secured him a fairly stable middleclass lifestyle at Delta. [color=fdc68a][b]Recent History:[/b][/color] After earning 2 norms for his performance in Paris and Latvia, Henry decided to wait a bit before going for his third norm, thus securing his International Master title. He wanted to settle down, enjoy life a bit since turning his life around and finish his university education. He's currently 2nd year undergraduate in Computer Science, minor Mathematics at Delta University. Actor or Actress/Public Figure who would play your Character in a movie: [hider=Tobey Maguire] [center][img] https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/06dc53a4-0e6c-4a4b-88a9-637046830d68.jpg[/img][/center] [/hider] [/hider] [hider=Myself] Tell us about yourself: *Your age: 21 *What part of the world are you from? International Student from Vietnam to Vancouver Canada *How many years have you been writing/roleplaying? Since 2017 so 4 years *How often do you have time to post? If I push for it, once a day. I will sit a lot on public transit and does allow some time to just sit there and craft a post. *Anything else you want to mention? What you do for a living? How much do you work a week? What do you enjoy doing besides writing? Put as much as you want. I just got internship as an IT Technician, and will be working 40 hours a week. I also do game supertest for the game World of Warships. I like to play chess casually and also take a long walk in the park (more like forest) near my house. "These are the things that make a good story great and good writers even greater." [hider=Player Interaction Scale] [h1]3.5[/h1] [/hider] [/hider]