Daily Message from Coach Russ
Dear Friends,
At the very center of our ICN programs has always been the commitment to creating "A Unique Team-First Training Approach Dedicated to Building Vibrant Chess Communities & Delivering Measurable Chess Success."
One of the core pillars of our mission is to deliver measurable chess success. In that spirit we have created many statistics and data points where you can not only track your child's progress but also understand where they perform in relationship to their peers. We strongly believe in the value of healthy peer to peer competition. This must be done in a supportive environment with the guidance of coaches, families and communities, but when done correctly the best in our students is brought out and magic happens!
Today I want to walk you through some of the statistics we have developed over the years, We encourage you to share these with your child as it will prove great motivation and inspiration to work harder each and every day. Just like baseball cards of old, or fantasy leagues, kids love numbers and tracking stats and they will work hard to be included.
Our ICN programs have produced Championship players and Team across City, State and National Events. To date we have enjoyed having nearly 100 of our players become Nationally Ranked in the United States (Top 100 players for their age). We have even enjoyed several players reaching number 1 in the United States!
Here we called it ICN magic, what it should really be called is tremendous support from our families, schools, players, coaches, administrators and the collective energy brought together through the ICN Network.
Below I have outlined our available stats. These include ICN Hall of Fame (1500 + USCF), Team Hall of Fame (1000 + USCF), Trophy Cases, Top 25 ICN Girls, ICN Puzzle Monsters, ICN Top 20 Per Grade, ICN Most Improved, ICN Most Wins, USA Top 100, ICN Top 50 List per Month, Team Puzzle Stats, Chess Club & Team Stats and our ICN News and Championship Reports.
Thanks to everyone who made these lists possible. You are truly the brains behind the operation :)
In closing, I will say TRUST THE PROCESS...HARD WORK REMAINS UNDEFEATED!
ICN Hall of Fame: 1500 + USCF
This list recognizes all of our players ALL TIME who have reached 1500 + USCF
Team Hall of Fame: 1000 + USCF
This list recognizes all of our players from each program who have reached 1000 + USCF while attending our program.
Trophy Cases: City, State and National Events
This list recognizes the awards our Teams have won at all City, State and National Events.
ICN Top 25 Girls:
This list recognizes our TOP 25 girls across all ICN Programs. Our ICN Girls have DOMINATED at the City, State and National Events. At last years All Girls Nationals, ICN programs secured over 50 percent of the TOP 3 Elementary placements in the United States (U8, U10, U12 sections)
ICN Puzzle Monsters:
This list shows our top puzzle solvers across the ICN Network!
ICN Top 20 Per Grade:
This list shows our Top 20 players across each grade! It is intersting to see how teams fair in certain grades and certain years.
ICN Most Improved:
This list tracks our players who have gained the most USCF rating points since September.
ICN Most Wins:
This list shows what active players across our ICN Network have won the most USCF rated games to date.
ICN Top 50 Per Month:
This list shows our Top 50 players per month.
We have archived our list going back several years.
USA Top 100 Players:
This list shows our current players who are ranked in the Top 100 in the United States!
ICN News:
Please see all news from our ICN programs going back several years.
We hope you enjoyed these stats! More to come :)
ICN Online Community: Things to Note
Daily Chess Club Meetings: 3:00 - 3:45 PM
We are happy to announce that starting this week, we will be offering club meetings during normal times through zoom. This means that whatever day you usually attend chess, you will now have the opportunity to continue that, only virtually for now. Zoom club will begin promptly at 3:00 PM and will run until 3:45 PM to ensure enough time for serious play at 4:00 PM.
Communication will be sent out directly to each program with zoom links and schedule.
Program Advice:
If you are an advanced player - 700 + USCF: DO EVERYTHING (Puzzles, videos, tournaments, lessons, live streams, books, exercises, chess, chess, chess) * We will be including interactive group classes on Zoom shortly.
If you are an intermediate player - 300 + USCF: DO EVERYTHING (Puzzles, videos, tournaments, lessons, live streams, books, exercises, chess, chess, chess) * We will be including interactive group classes on Zoom shortly.
If you are New To Chess:
* Focus on the Learn section on chesskid.com
Lessons on chesskid.com. Start with Lesson One (Pawn 1) and continue all the way through (as many as are appropriate for your desired speed of advancement)
Supplement with Videos on chesskid.com. Start by watching each Beginner Video (as many as are appropriate for your desired speed of advancement)
As your knowledge base grows from Lessons and Videos, keep trying to work on solving Puzzles (this should happen in tandem)
Once Puzzles begin to click...You should begin to test your skills on Play vs Kid on chesskid.com (time control 15 minutes)
Daily Schedule:
We are continuing to evolve our online programming with new additions being worked on daily. By next week we hope to have small group interactive classes along with a database of skill appropriate lessons for all students provided by our amazing coaching staff. Please see below for our current daily schedule from M-F
Daily Online Schedule:
9:00 AM - Daily Opening Email
Content, puzzle contests, self study, private coaching
11:30 AM, 5-round, G10, d5 - ICN Rapid Open will include all players across the ICN networks
3:30 PM - Daily Uploaded Coaches Meeting on Youtube - Join Here
4:00 PM, 3 rounds G25, d5 - same format as our ICN monthly tournaments w/ U300, U700, U1000 & Open sections
Content, puzzle contests, self study, private coaching
Daily Morning Email: 9:00 AM
Our morning email will discuss upcoming events, introduce new programming elements, give updated team and individual stats, and address any prevailing questions.
Daily Rapid Tournament: 11:30 AM
Rapid open (G10, D5) for all ICN players. 5 rounds of morning fun. log into chesskid.com to receive your daily event information. Results from these events are counting towards team and individual standings.
Daily Team Meetings Uploaded on Youtube: 3:30 PM
We will host daily live streamed Team meetings hosted by different ICN Coaches. Our meetings are geared toward giving program updates including past, present and future events and also connecting out students directly to each other and their coaches. Join Here.
Daily Serious Games: 4:00 PM
We have grouped our players according to their USCF rating and placed longer time controls (G25, D5) to allow for more serious thoughtful competition. We encourage everyone to participate in these EVERY DAY! These tournaments are also included in our daily updated individual and team standings. You can join by accepting our daily invitation on chesskid.com
Additional Programming: All Other Times
When we are not offering structured programming, we encourage you to solve PUZZLES, PUZZLES, PUZZLES. These results are also directing effecting both individual and team standings and being updated daily. We also encourage doing exercises, watching videos, working with a coach privately, along with reading chess books and any other additional resources.
Check out our youtube page for new uploaded content.!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGzjPevmJlaIWl33s260j6A
Online Community Page:
Please reference our Community Page for a FAQ on how to join and play in the tournaments. If you have any questions about logging in, email ICNChesskid@gmail.com.
Private Lesson Opportunities:
We have now successfully begun the process of connecting players with coaches for private instruction. If you are looking to add a daily/weekly structured activity into your child's schedule we are happy to connect you with one of our eager coaches. You can speak directly with them regarding scheduling, etc. If you have a particular coach in mind, please let us know, if not we are happy to make a recommendation.
Please email us at impactcoachingnetworklessons@gmail.com
Welcoming New Members:
We had an overwhelming response to our online community and we are now thrilled to extend the opportunities to others outside of our ICN network. If you have friends interested, they can Join Here.
Team Shirt Friday
Friday's are our weekly team shirt day. Check out our friends in their team shirts @ TEAM SHIRT FRIDAYS
Send pictures in your Team Shirt on Friday's to icnonlinecommunity@gmail.com.
We will post all of our photos to our Instagram below.
Daily Stats and Standings:
Finally, join me in congratulating all the winners from Friday's events:
Our daily winners will be on display here
Additionally, please see here for our update day standings of our Puzzles contest.
Team Winners:
Rapid Open
PS 11, 13.5 points
PS 33, 11.5 points
PS 77, 7 points
PS 230, 4.5 points
1000 +
PS 59, 6 points
PS 11, 3 points
PS 77, 2 points
PS 139, 2 points
U1000
PS 10, 5 points
PS 11, 4 points
PS 139, 3 points
PS 33, 3 points
U700
PS 139, 5.5 points
PS 10, 4.5 points
PS 130K, 4 points
PS 77, 3 points
U300
PS 59, 5 points
PS 130K, 5 points
PS 77, 4 points
BIB, 3 points
Individual Winners (Top 10):
Rapid Open -
Elliot Goodrich (77) - First Place!
Christoffer Lamtan (11)
Liev Wurtzel (11)
Amaru Chimborazo (33)
Charlie Rozenfeld (130K)
Akaash Rau (116)
Roger Pan (BIM)
Emma Phu (11)
Wolfgang Damon (33)
Clark Shlisky (77)
1000 +
Riann Javeri (59) - First Place!
Elliot Goodrich (77)
Christoffer Lamtan (11)
Shiding Wu (59)
Benjamin Brown (139)
Louis Barry (11)
Arhan Javeri (59)
Jacob Meyers (33)
Oliver Skelcher (11)
Maxwell Stringer (33)
U1000
Emma Phu (11) - First Place!
Miles Dowshen Flores (139)
Wolfgang Damon (33)
Peter Volik (10)
Kiaan Javeri (59)
Wiley Reid (130K)
Jeremy K. Yoon (10)
Devin Wang (77)
Miles Stringer (33)
Henry Berlach (10)
U700
Clark Shlisky (77) - First Place!
Harrison Leese (139)
Daniel Terentyev (281)
Avin Pawar (33)
Lia Barros (139)
Jackson Zelznick (130K)
Hunter Zelznick (130K)
Anthony Cortese (111)
Noah Banning (10)
Marisa Pacelli (33)
U300
Advay Misra (59) - First Place!
Takki Tanaka (77)
Shaan Javeri (59)
Oliver McManus (130K)
Roger Pan (BIM)
Colton Choi (BIB)
James Chan (33)
Finn Loomis (139)
Gable Carney (BIB)
Yonah Wolfhagen (130K)
ICN Puzzle Competition:
PS 59's Team leads with a total of 3265 puzzles completed (Top 10)
PS 59's Dev Jairath is leading the charts with 732 puzzles completed in the last 7 days.
PS 11's Avery Whitaker is leading the charts with 79 puzzles completed in one day.
A special congratulations to PS 11's Avaan Chamadia for having the highest chesskid rating in the last 7 days of 2603.
We are happy to announce online streamed videos, with live commentary, and skill appropriate lesson content is available on our youtube channel.
Congratulations and keep up the great job,
Coach Russ