User:Moab2021
This user is Damian Nash, the Engineering Technology Teacher at Kauai High School. He is a lifelong chess player with the following credentials:
- Directed over 150 rated chess tournaments
- USCF Candidate Master lifetime title
- USCF Senior Tournament Director
- USCF Advanced Chess Coach
- FIDE National Arbiter
- FIDE Instructor (pending)
- Hawaii State Chess co-Champion (2018)
- Utah State Chess Champion (2010, 2011)
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certified
- Hawaii Teaching License with endorsements to teach grades 6-12 subjects: Mathematics, General Science, CTE-Industrial Engineering and Technology, Psychology, School Counselor
Damian Nash lived 20 years in the tiny desert community of Moab, Utah. Hence the name Moab2021. He helped develop the variant of random chess called Moab Random. This user has contributed to articles about Grandmaster Kayden Troff and NM Todd Bardwick. He directed many small tournaments in Utah that brought the young prodigy Kayden Troff into the national spotlight where he eventually became world Under-14 champion and US Junior Champion. He went to college with his chess nemesis NM Todd Bardwick, a popular chess author and one of the first Professional (Level 5) Chess Coaches recognized by the US Chess Federation.