Balog Cristian
I’ve been playing chess since I was a little kid, and in elementary school, I participated in numerous inter-school chess competitions. I stopped competitive chess after starting my first year of high school because at that time, I was a performance athlete practicing three sports: 1. Bowling (at the highest level), 2. Judo, and 3. Fitness. Chess became my fourth priority, so I decided to quit because it’s hard to perform at the highest level in everything. Sometimes in life, you have to choose what to be the best at, and that’s what I did, choosing bowling, where I was among the best in Romania.Since chess remained my main hobby, I often played chess online. That’s when the story of Balog Ronaldo began. He followed me, playing for approximately 8 months without asking me anything. During this time, he learned to play chess, and at 2 years and 8 months, he set all the pieces on the board by himself and asked me if I wanted to play chess with him. The child already knew how to play!