These are several of my favorite sources below!
They are just a fraction of the many wonderful sources online. I will add to the list when new links are discovered.
We'll start with sources for beginners (page 2-directly below) and work our way down to more advanced lessons, not necessarily in exact order of difficulty.
Even our most advanced players and the coach can benefit by watching videos.
Do sample many of them to find your favorites here but don't limit yourself to just these sources.
Have fun learning and playing chess!
From ChessKid, 50 wonderful free videos for beginners!
How to Play Chess — Beginner Videos ✨
Go to that link and scroll down for 50 different videos/lessons. Your child can watch these and learn at their own pace.
Having a chess set at home is a great idea too. This is the perfect time for adults to learn at the same time and play their children.
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https://chessfox.com/free-
HOW TO PLAY CHESS VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
After you understand how to play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLYgXCkucc
How Do I Castle in Chess? | Castling | ChessKid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CBlNGLwUw
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After Castling in Chess | Back Rank Mates | ChessKid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBXBE0F78xw
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5 Main Objectives of a chess game
https://chessfox.com/introduction-to-the-5-main-objectives-of-a-chess-game/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOGeEZ7iYSg
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4 MOVE CHECK MATE VIDEOS....and more analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBZL_uUX-7E
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7ccnENhxBE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbh2pRvM3aU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOGeEZ7iYSg
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Checkmating with a Lone Rook
http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/basic/r_k_mate/r_k_mate.htm
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https://completechesseducation.com/lessons/king-rook-checkmate/
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6 checkmate patterns you MUST know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBZLU1FXhcI&
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkX90kPV2PE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjpKC9SMvKs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KlDixnZMhM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CBlNGLwUw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuK-ft7yPI
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More experienced players. No matter how advanced you are, many of these videos will be of tremendous benefit to improving your game!
They are also great fun to watch if you love chess analysis with the chess coaches being some of the best on the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWzltpXk2mg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXyJdetptXg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYtXMJjqfvw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy8A3-1A9I
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ALEPcUaSU
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The Top 23 Checkmate Patterns | Most Important Mating Patterns In Chess | Chess Tactics and Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo93mIhnDz4
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7 Most Successful Gambits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjxYuTRG4RE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib8XaRKCAfo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlT3RjhuVHM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNe4d47u1p4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_jUGO5agg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4F77emUnqQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW81BAd2ins
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bkHvDd79Y
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEu3xT--f_k
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwwKqLd1OY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZtVxicqkAs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v9KoTKAibA
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Poison Pawn Trap: Chess Opening TRICK to Win Fast: Secret Checkmate Moves, Strategy & Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UCUgfg2kdI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OScG6p3buuo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IegDENuxU4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i9wcusTwSo
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10 Chess Tips To CRUSH Everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFl4GjVvrA
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXrKRA_KZ5k
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EASY CHESS ENDGAMES: King & Pawns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCsc24k-Q8M
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EASY CHESS ENDGAMES: Queen vs. Pawn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q-TjB6YYRI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMZJ9P2Hnq0
Learning to do notation.
They require students competing above 3rd grade to notate at many US Chess Federation rated tournaments, like the Scholastic Chess of Indiana tournaments in our state.
Each of the 64 squares on a chess board has an identity using its file(letter) and rank(number)
Each piece, other than the pawn has a capital letter to identify it.
Here's more:
https://www.chessable.com/blog/chess-notation-for-beginners/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsibNyWsCbI
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3H9M39bHsU
Meet my Dad!
In the reports below, Dad was approaching 91 years old.
2024 update: Dad is 98 years old and still playing chess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg5a2DYyXQ
https://chessdailynews.com/never-too-old-to-learn-new-tricks/
Re: Re: Re: Re: How to make the world a better place Jan. 9, 2020
Great chess tournament
11 responses |
Started by metmike - Jan. 17, 2023, 6:20 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/92277/
We had 162 students signed up!
Next years tournament will be on March 2, 2024. Sign ups begin in January.
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In addition, I was invited to be a board member for Scholastic Chess of Indiana. We've been competing in their tournaments for over 2 decades.
Here's their link:
We will be hosting the INDIVIDUAL SCI regional qualifier at McCutchanville on January 6, 2023.
https://scichess.org/?page_id=535
Last year, our North Junior High TEAM finished 7th in the Scholastic Chess of Indiana state finals.
http://sci.joepye.net/2023EighthL.htm
The previous year, our North High School TEAM team finished 6th in the state finals.
We started our new 2023/24 chess season at the 5 schools I coach at.
323 students from grades K-12 are signed up.
An incredible 180 students are from just one K-6 school, McCutchanville.
I'm blessed to be a member of the Scholastic Chess of Indiana board of directors!
Working together with some very talented, like minded adults that are leading the state of Indiana in promoting scholastic chess and keeping our young people actively engaged in competitive chess.
This was a wonderful video conducted by 2 of our board members, Bill Pilate, our president and James Dean that runs the states K-12 Canterbury Chess Club POWERHOUSE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-e39qLmdOI
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Chess Coach Stories
15 responses |
Started by metmike - July 29, 2021, 7:23 p.m.
Our next NJH Spring tournament on March 2, 2024 is already starting sign ups!!
Over the weekend, we finished the Scholastic Chess of Indiana Individual tournament championships/finals in Indianapolis, IN.
http://sci.joepye.net/24SCIIndEntriesResults.htm
Now we're looking ahead to the SCI Team regionals at the end of February in Jeffersonville, then the championships on March 23rd in Hammond, IN.
https://scichess.org/?page_id=619
March 2024 update: We had 4 teams in the SCI Finals. 1 in each division(U3, U6, U8 and U12).
They all finished in the top half or close to it in the standings against the best chess players in the state of Indiana!
https://joepye.net/sci/2024TeamFinalsEntries.htm
Early Father's Day
Started by metmike - March 26, 2024, 12:13 a.m.
From the Land of 10,000 lakes comes this wonderful email message:
Hi Mike,
I'm just getting in touch to thank you... your chess resources have come in handy! My name is Mrs. Echevarria and I'm the program director for our recreation center here in Minnesota. We're always looking for fun ideas to keep our community entertained when the weather isn't nice enough to go outdoors. I've been putting together a Chess activity guide for our members - you listed some wonderful sites to include! Thank you again :)
My student volunteer Max has also asked me to send you this beginners guide to chess that he found: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.speedwaymotors.com%2FInfo%2FGames-to-Play-in-the-Car-A-Guide-to-Chess&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cbdda965da48d490797aa08dc58da52a0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638482941929789035%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=If0wmYImIJgq%2F5ueDa1QYO2t5j1O9dIGYKD8DkM7am0%3D&reserved=0 ...Not only does it cover the rules, strategies and tactics, but there are some great websites to check out for joining tournaments and where you can play online!
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Thanks very much Max!
And thanks very much Mrs. Echevarria for everything that you do to help our young people grow into happy and productive, adults
More great chess videos!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYGJOc9SKiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nsfNuHX7xI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fotEfEXL60o
These are the names of the highest rated chess players in the state of Indiana right now.
What does this tell you?
I'll comment on what it tells me shortly!
https://sci.joepye.net/TopLists.htm
At the junior high/high school our chess shirts have "sport for the brain" and it absolutely is related to many of the students not being great athletes.
Some of our best chess players got into sports in high school and retired from chess. Some did both but couldn't spend as much time on chess. The ones that spend the most time doing it are NOT the best athletes because the athletes are too busy.
They also tend to be the more cerebral type personalities, using their brains and not their bodies...........but please don't let that be a stereotype because of exceptions ALL THE TIME. There are plenty that are gifted at both but only have limited time. Students that are top chess players in the state of Indiana devote hours/day on chess.
Kids and people in general will also enjoy doing things they are really good at naturally. Kids that are 6 foot 8 in high school or built like a tank or faster than everybody else growing up will be much more likely to play sports where this gives them an advantage.
Kids that are naturally good at chess experience the same thing. However, I have some that spend tons of time doing it, mainly for the social aspect. They enjoy hanging out with other kids their age after school and don't really have anywhere else to go that features so many of their classmates there at the same time and they can play chess with a partner of their choosing.
But this still doesn't discuss why there are an incredibly high number of Asians that are TOP RATED PLAYERS IN CHESS.
Asian bodies are not the best to be football or basketball players(there are exceptions) Asian brains are extraordinarily analytical. There are some genetics because they get all their genes from mommy and daddy for height, eye color and DNA that determines everything about them, including analytical thinking.
My brain, for instance has always been crappy at language but gifted at analytical thinking. Our Dad was gifted at analytical thinking. He still plays skillful chess at 99 years old! Thanks, Dad! For teaching me to play chess in 1966 and for giving me your DNA I drive my wife bonkers by over-analyzing everything. It's the way my brain works.
The environment and cultures play a massive role too.
I've heard people say that chess is the national sport for Israel. They have a tremendous number of high rated grand masters for their small size. Brilliant people they are in many realms that involve high level, analytical thinking. For sure part of this is how they are raised too. Pushed hard from an early age to be educated and strive for excellence/perfection.
Russia has always been known for its chess playing dynasty. However, India AND CHINA have come from out of nowhere the past 2 decades and have many of the top chess players in the world.
I joke about the last name Patel (I've had 5 of them from 3 different families the past decade) assuring that they will be good at chess. Actually, only 1 was REALLY gifted. He and an American kid that I had 20 years ago have been the best.
I've had several Asian kids and most of them are excellent at chess.
This is not a racist statement but a reality, using chess as sort of an IQ test to say honestly that Asians, in general have a higher chess playing IQ than most other races.
This only pertains to CHESS PLAYING(and my unique connections enabling profound discernment about it) as IQ is a complicated thing which also is related to environmental factors(people with advantages will have higher IQs because they have had more learning opportunities).
To be on that list that I showed earlier, it takes WAY more than just having potential. These are kids that spend much of their free time every day studying, learning and playing chess to get better at it. To be the best at it. Almost every day for many years. They have incredible work ethics which drives them to be THE BEST.
Knowing some of the parents that came here from other countries, that is often more of a trait that they stress compared to average American parents that grew up with everything and didn't have to work hard to get it.
This is not always the case and may just apply to a unique, subset of parents that came here from other countries under certain conditions and NOT all of them......when it comes to chess, especially. These are ALMOST ALL legal citizens of the United States based on what I know about them.
But that unique subset, kicks the butt of any other subset of Americans as we can see from the top rated players in Indiana. Is that the case for every state in the US?
I just copied the link of the list for the top 100 best chess players aged 9 or under for the United States below. HOLY COW! It's even more distorted!!! With few exceptions, the younger the age in the United States, the more extreme this is. That is profoundly predicting the future!!!
Looking at this from a global scale that relates to other realms:
There are 2+ billion extraordinarily smart Asians living in China/India. We got a 100+ year head start on them, when it came to developing technologies, science and so on. China has already closed the gap and will be crushing us by 2030. India got a later start but they will be crushing us by 2050. Not maybe but IT WILL HAPPEN with certainty.
There is plenty of pie for everybody on this planet, even as our share becomes less and less every year. There is no reason that American children can't still reach their potential and have everything they want for decades to come! But they will need to work real hard for it because the competition is getting much tougher!
We should start accepting the fact that we will never be able to get back what used to be in world dominance and just maximize what can be while trying to maintain good relationships with countries that are taking some of our pie away.......because they are advancing quickly and have many times more people.
Look at the names below and consider that people of these nationalities are an tiny minority in this country but are almost all the top chess players. WOW!
Most of these young children would decimate me on the chess board!!!
| 1 | Ling, Chenxuan (17159983) | 9 | NY | USA | 2173 |
| 2 | Xia, Joshua (30026083) | 9 | CA | USA | 2153 |
| 3 | Wang, Rocky (17133074) | 9 | MI | USA | 2095 |
| 4 | Mulay, Vivan Prakash (30366447) | 9 | FL | USA | 2088 |
| 5 | Schaefer, Sasha Milo (30360321) | 9 | NY | USA | 2028 |
| 6 | Paragiri, Reyansh (30233070) | 9 | CA | USA | 1977 |
| 7 | Jani, Aakash (17179264) | 9 | FL | USA | 1973 |
| 8 | Guntaka, Aayansh (30198721) | 9 | AZ | USA | 1968 |
| 9 | Yu, Matthew (30074521) | 9 | IL | USA | 1954 |
| 10 | Zhang, Royce (30154455) | 9 | RI | USA | 1945 |
| =10 | Sha, Yi (30451952) | 9 | FL | USA | 1945 |
| 12 | Wang, Howard (30291617) | 9 | CA | USA | 1938 |
| 13 | Sanghani, Tanay (30023364) | 9 | SC | USA | 1935 |
| 14 | Manchanda, Advik (30054176) | 9 | TX | USA | 1915 |
| 15 | Maddipati, Srihas Sai Sarvesh (17152864) | 9 | TX | USA | 1907 |
| 16 | Doddapaneni, Viyaan Krishna (30316768) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1903 |
| 17 | Gurumoorthi, Gurugrahan (30149738) | 9 | NE | USA | 1892 |
| 18 | Zou, Andrew (30100762) | 9 | CA | USA | 1880 |
| 19 | Yu, Yang (30094337) | 9 | NC | USA | 1870 |
| 20 | Gu, Oliver Ranxi (30058957) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1860 |
| 21 | Xu, Zhuoyuan Ryan (30135458) | 9 | ON | FOR | 1843 |
| 22 | Zhu, Alicia (17319976) | 9 | MA | USA | 1823 |
| 23 | Pramanik, Aayansh (30344898) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1816 |
| 24 | Jha, Keya (30189449) | 9 | OH | USA | 1812 |
| 25 | Pavuluri, Vivaan (30203278) | 9 | CA | USA | 1802 |
| 26 | Cheng, Samuel (30067638) | 9 | NY | USA | 1799 |
| 27 | Zhou, Ryan (30770532) | 9 | MN | USA | 1798 |
| 28 | Milner, Romi (30038989) | 9 | CA | USA | 1779 |
| 29 | Cui, Chris (30048697) | 9 | MA | USA | 1778 |
| 30 | Shen, Alice (30325151) | 9 | NY | USA | 1775 |
| 31 | Goel, Raben (30336888) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1773 |
| 32 | Tal, Daniel (30693976) | 9 | FL | USA | 1758 |
| 33 | Gao, Pinhang (30144881) | 9 | VA | USA | 1756 |
| 34 | Zhang, Lawrence (30167437) | 9 | TX | USA | 1752 |
| =34 | Ramesan, Raunak Amit (30406960) | 9 | QC | FOR | 1752 |
| 36 | Li, Jayden (30082341) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1745 |
| 37 | Zhang, Ella Xinyue (30305617) | 9 | MA | USA | 1728 |
| 38 | Yao, Annie (30095222) | 9 | TX | USA | 1727 |
| 39 | Zhou, Elizabeth (30081108) | 9 | NY | USA | 1719 |
| =39 | Yu, Benjamin (30360050) | 9 | CA | USA | 1719 |
| 41 | Rao, Arjun (30140896) | 9 | CA | USA | 1696 |
| 42 | Lui, Isaac Noah (30138098) | 9 | NY | USA | 1691 |
| 43 | Dubey, Shiv (17241381) | 9 | NY | USA | 1690 |
| 44 | Kim, Ethan J (30043223) | 9 | NY | USA | 1680 |
| 45 | Murray, Jacob (30614066) | 9 | CA | USA | 1664 |
| 46 | Liu, Chloe (30081462) | 9 | TX | USA | 1661 |
| 47 | Han, Ethan (30036213) | 9 | CA | USA | 1659 |
| 48 | Wang, Nathan Zicheng (30419004) | 9 | TX | USA | 1657 |
| 49 | Yu, Nicole Q (30489659) | 9 | DE | USA | 1654 |
| 50 | Li, Owen (30050830) | 9 | TX | USA | 1652 |
| 51 | Huang, Paul (30413947) | 9 | NC | USA | 1639 |
| 52 | Wang, Grace Ofia Nuoyi (30541277) | 9 | MI | USA | 1638 |
| 53 | Li, Albert (30047481) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1632 |
| =53 | Sommerstein, Adrian Harrison (30575100) | 9 | NY | USA | 1632 |
| 55 | Liu, Caden (30149077) | 9 | MD | USA | 1621 |
| 56 | Chan, Kara (30437368) | 9 | NY | USA | 1618 |
| 57 | Yang, Albert (30131564) | 9 | MN | USA | 1616 |
| 58 | Kavari, Aarav (30521299) | 9 | MI | USA | 1615 |
| 59 | Hua, Joshua (30191695) | 9 | CA | USA | 1613 |
| 60 | Zhang, Miller (30746121) | 9 | CA | USA | 1612 |
| 61 | Jin, Evan Y (30495540) | 9 | MO | USA | 1602 |
| 62 | Kaushik, Shlok (30522189) | 9 | NC | USA | 1601 |
| 63 | Rajagopalan, Aadhya Jay (30065644) | 9 | TX | USA | 1591 |
| 64 | Liu, Connor Xiang (30071216) | 9 | MA | USA | 1581 |
| 65 | Saha, Tanisha (17305578) | 9 | FL | USA | 1579 |
| 66 | Modzelewski, Jacob Sol (30431360) | 9 | NY | USA | 1573 |
| 67 | Liang, Melanie (30351272) | 9 | NY | USA | 1572 |
| 68 | Chanda, Shreyansh (30317880) | 9 | IN | USA | 1569 |
| 69 | He, Julian (30364859) | 9 | TX | USA | 1567 |
| 70 | Seidel, Eli (17241710) | 9 | CA | USA | 1566 |
| 71 | Kong, Scarlett (30135865) | 9 | USA | 1565 | |
| 72 | Tang, Edward Jiayi (30688439) | 9 | IL | USA | 1564 |
| 73 | Chen, Raymond (30299312) | 9 | GA | USA | 1559 |
| 74 | Mak, Owen (30234823) | 9 | NY | USA | 1556 |
| 75 | Arun, Pranav (30280437) | 9 | NC | USA | 1551 |
| 76 | Baksi, Antariksh (30053974) | 9 | TX | USA | 1550 |
| 77 | Xu, Kevin (30156827) | 9 | NY | USA | 1544 |
| 78 | Birudavolu, Sathvik (17230292) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1542 |
| 79 | Zarineh, Kian (30496223) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1541 |
| 80 | Yang, Matthew (30302170) | 9 | TX | USA | 1539 |
| 81 | Liu, Alexandra (30464451) | 9 | NY | USA | 1534 |
| 82 | Jesunas, Liam (15773494) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1531 |
| 83 | Xia, John Wang (30747333) | 9 | CA | USA | 1529 |
| 84 | Jain, Armaan Chandragupta (30230374) | 9 | NY | FOR | 1525 |
| 85 | Cheng, Kyle (30337761) | 9 | NY | USA | 1524 |
| 86 | Nikhil, Nirav (30971145) | 9 | MI | USA | 1518 |
| 87 | Wang, Miles (30811327) | 9 | PA | USA | 1514 |
| 88 | Deng, Ethan (30251216) | 9 | NY | USA | 1512 |
| 89 | Weng, Johnson (30136161) | 9 | NY | USA | 1503 |
| 90 | Chen, Andy (30080996) | 9 | WA | USA | 1501 |
| 91 | Ouyang, Raymond (30136126) | 9 | NJ | USA | 1496 |
| 92 | Anand, Anirudh (30324099) | 9 | MI | USA | 1492 |
| 93 | Das, Abhinav (30869719) | 9 | TX | USA | 1490 |
| 94 | Shrikkanth, Avyukth (30495983) | 9 | CO | USA | 1489 |
| 95 | Chelladorai, Joshua (31161091) | 9 | GA | USA | 1487 |
| 96 | Wu, Terrain (30135638) | 9 | NY | USA | 1480 |
| 97 | Kumbharathi, Eeshan (30260472) | 9 | PA | USA | 1474 |
| 98 | Muthiah, Yugan (30037296) | 9 | TX | USA | 1471 |
| 99 | Zhu, Kenson (30136158) | 9 | NY | USA | 1469 |
| 100 | Bomjan, Neerav (30723340) | 9 | MO | USA | 1462 |
The rise of China as a chess power
https://www.fide.com/news/2487
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This article basically explains why CHINA has become a global chess power by emphasizing chess playing in CHINA to people who LIVE IN CHINA.
By it doesn't explain why Chinese living in the United States are now, by far the most dominant scholastic chess players in our country.
Asians are only 7% of the US population and less than 3% of the population in Indiana.
Most of them are playing and competing, using US chess standards, tournaments and education systems NOT what is happening in China.
I'm telling you with absolute certainty that they have an extremely high ratio of analytically gifted minds that were born that way compared to most other races. And an extremely strong work ethic.
The 7 foot center playing in the NBA was born to be tall.
The 320 lb NFL lineman was born to be huge, powerful and fast.
The countries of Kenya and Ethiopia have the most gifted long distance runners BECAUSE OF GENETICS.
This is meant to be a compliment of the highest order and we should be glad to have children like this in our country because they will one day be brilliant contributors in whatever fields they pursue as adults.
And at the same time, understand that the vast majority of Chinese/Asians will live in Asia their entire lives and those students, when they grow up will be contributing to their countries productivity. Their population greatly exceeds ours so we will be at an increasingly bigger disadvantage in competing with them in many analytical fields, like science and technology.
This isn't intended to be a warning or xenophobia/racist. Instead, we should accept this is coming and not have policies that pretend it isn't and try to preserve environments/dynamics that assume it isn't already happening.
MAKE SMART DECISIONS! Educate our young people to be the best, smartest and most productive that they can be.
China has massive advantages compared to us in many industries, especially because of cheap labor to manufacture things. They are also making smarter decisions in the energy markets. Our politicians and political divisions in the United States are wasting a lot of great talent and resources that would be much greater if we JUST WORKED TOGETHER!
The United States, for instance has 22% of the world's coal. By far more than any other country. And what is our government doing with the huge advantage?
Shutting down most of our coal plants because of emissions of a beneficial gas, CO2 that's well mixed in the global atmosphere. So as China builds MORE coal plants and increases CO2 emissions much faster than we cut(almost triple ours and increasing) ......we are shooting ourselves in the foot with DUMB decisions based on fake environmentalism, crony capitalism and political agenda.
I didn't think that this would turn into a fake climate crisis thread
https://www.worldometers.info/coal/
| Country | Coal Reserves (tons) in 2016 | World Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 254,197,000,000 | 22.3% |
| 2 | Russia | 176,770,840,800 | 15.5% |
| 3 | Australia | 159,634,329,600 | 14.0% |
| 4 | China | 149,818,259,000 | 13.1% |
| 5 | India | 107,726,551,700 | 9.5% |
| 6 | Germany | 39,802,209,480 | 3.5% |
| 7 | Ukraine | 37,891,906,250 | 3.3% |
| 8 | South Africa | 35,053,458,000 | 3.1% |
| 9 | Poland | 28,451,723,410 | 2.5% |
| 10 | Kazakhstan | 28,224,647,550 | 2.5% |
| 11 | Indonesia | 24,910,001,380 | 2.2% |
| 12 | Turkey | 12,514,525,430 | 1.1% |
https://globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/labs/Lab12_GlobalCarbon/Carbon_06Nov15.htm
Just to repeat, metmike is a practicing environmentalist!
Therealenvironmental crisis's
30 responses |
Started by metmike - April 10, 2019, 7:11 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/27498/
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OK, let's get back on topic...........CHESS!
https://www.chessstrategyonline.com/play-chess-online
There's no better way to improve at chess than to play lots and lots of games. Unfortunately, we don't have an online play feature here at Chess Strategy Online, but there are plenty of servers out there where you can find opponents of all levels, day and night. Here on this page are links to the best of them.
With over 100 million members, chess.com is the internet's biggest online chess community. You can play both live chess at various time controls, or correspondence-style games with days per move. Basic membership is free, but premium users gain access to extra training features, videos, and statistics.
Dad passed this morning.
we played many thousands of chess games.20 of them this month.the last 2 were on Monday. With my help and without my queen, he beat me in the 2nd from last chess game of his life.
he was 99 years old.
scroll up to read our story
A tribute to our Dad, Frank Maguire 9-16-1925 to 11-21-2024
Started by metmike - Nov. 22, 2024, 2:04 p.m.
