Rick Crawford

Zdravo Dough friend!!! Come into my bakery and sit by the warm oven! Every good game needs time to rise! Let us knead the board together and I will say Baking it right when you play well! 🍞 Doviđenja after the last move!

Rick Crawford is a 29-year-old baker from England who plays at an estimated rating of 1449, which places him at intermediate club level. His profile paints a jovial storyteller who mixes pastry talk with the chaos of the chessboard, and his lucky charm is a Golden Pastry Cutter. At the board he shows a solid opening repertoire, calculates two or three moves deep, and handles endgames with decent technique, though he is not a deep theorist. With White he most often chooses the Queen's Gambit, which accounts for 305 games on record, and he also plays Indian Game mainlines. As Black he has only a handful of games in the Nimzo-Indian. His favorite saying compares baking and chess, since both call for patience, strategy, and a touch of humor. Opponents can expect a patient, defensive player who keeps pieces on the board and the position full of tension.