I played chess for many years before I became a student of Colonel Zack Kinney. We met over the chess board four times prior. I managed to beat Zack one time while he won three times against me in several DC based USCF Rated chess tournaments in the pre-2017 time period. Colonel Kinney went on and studied the game and reached an official chess rating of 2130 over the board. He also beat close to 21 USCF rated chess masters over the course of his chess career. Zack joined he USAF and while he was stationed in the Republic of Philippines, he played and beat six Philippine chess masters and drew three. Since the games Colonel Kinney played against the Filipino chess masters were not USCF sponsored or rated, nor were they FIDE sponsored so the USCF did not give Colonel Kinney credit for beating and drawing the Filipino chess masters in question. Had they done so, Colonel Kinney would be a National Master.