Who Won the Team Shirt Fridays Competition??

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Who Won the Team Shirt Friday Competition??

Good Morning Friends!

Coach West here, kicking off a new week of exciting chess learning & competition. (I thought I'd give Coach Russ a breather! :) Our 5th Team Shirt Friday was a big success, and we had a lot of terrific pictures from our teams.

The winning team was the Chess-Ninjas of PS 139 in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. The Ninjas were started as a chess team in 2003 by yours truly, and started competing in national events the following year, and never looked back.

I have enjoyed coaching through the years with the Ninjas, and watching them grow and conquer mountains all over the country, but it has been very special to bring them into the ICN family, especially now that we are extra-motivated to be a community together.

We have a number of new features and ideas coming your way this week, so please stay tuned! I promise it will be worth your time and attention!

See you at the Daily Rapid & Serious Long Matches!

Thanks,

Coach West

ICN Online Community: Things to Note

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

  1. 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)

  2. Supplement with Videos on chesskid.com. Start by watching each Beginner Video (as many as are appropriate for your desired speed of advancement)

  3. As your knowledge base grows from Lessons and Videos, keep trying to work on solving Puzzles (this should happen in tandem)

  4. Once Puzzles begin to click...You should begin to test your skills on Play vs Kid on chesskid.com (time control 15 minutes)

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 Coaches Meeting Uploaded on Youtube - Watch 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

Individual Winners (Top 10):

Rapid Open

  • Kiaan Javeri (59)

  • Micah Reiss (59)

  • Kevin Xie (10)

  • Ashwin Bear (Trinity)

  • Jeremy K. Yoon (10)

  • Emma Phu (11)

  • Clark Shlisky (77)

  • Miles Dowshen Flores (139)

  • Jackson Zelznick (130K)

  • Davey Murdoch (11)

1000 +

  • Chloe Stark (33)

  • Lisa Sun (Hunter)

  • Josh Price (Home)

  • Elliot Goodrich (77)

  • Rohail Shah (PS40)

  • Jeremy Choi (77)

  • Nathan Peyton (41)

  • Indira Raparthi (11)

  • Christoffer Lamtan (11)

  • Chris DeDona (49)

U1000

  • Micah Reiss (59)

  • Akaash Rau (116)

  • Mila Antonios (10)

  • Devin Wang (77)

  • Joshua Kuruvilla (77)

  • Emma Phu (11)

  • Anay Varma (11)

  • Wolfgang Damon (33)

  • Kunj Somani (59)

  • Peter Volik (10)

U700

  • Charles Kim (10)

  • Harrison Leese (139)

  • Noah Banning (10)

  • Tristan Gee (77)

  • Jose Rondeau (77)

  • Asher Cohen (116)

  • Steven Lin (230)

  • William Dong (59)

  • Ameya Prakash

  • Avin Pawar (33)

U300

  • Junoo Yang (77)

  • Takki Tanaka (77)

  • Simon Rifkin (116)

  • Francis Jia (77)

  • Advay Misra (59)

  • Roger Pan (BIM)

  • Evelyn Guo (77)

  • Sean Casey Jr. (10)

  • Jackie Grettum (33)

  • Samaira Mody (59)

Daily Stats and Standings:

Finally, join me in congratulating all the winners from our daily events:

Our daily winners will be on display here.

Additionally, please see here for our updated day standings of our Puzzles contest.

Team Winners:

Rapid Open

  • PS 10, 12 points

  • PS 59, 9 points

  • PS 11, 9 points

  • PS 33, 7 points

1000 +

  • PS 77, 5 points

  • Hunter, 3.5 points

  • PS 33, 2.5 points

  • Home, 2.5 points

U1000

  • PS 59, 5 points

  • PS 77, 4 points

  • PS 10, 3 points

  • PS 11, 3 points

U700

  • PS 10, 7.5 points

  • PS 77, 7.5 points

  • PS 59, 5 points

  • PS 139, 4.5 points

U300

  • PS 77, 10 points

  • PS 59, 4 points

  • PS 116, 2 points

  • BIM, 2 points

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ICN Puzzle Competition:

  • PS 33's Team leads with a total of 8,528 puzzles completed (Top 10)

  • PS 33's Team leads with a total of 15,805 puzzles completed (All Time)

  • PS 33's Nik Vig is leading the charts with 1,027 puzzles completed in the last 7 days.

  • PS 33's Nik Vig is leading the charts with 126 puzzles completed in one day.

  • A special congratulations to PS 59's Jude Kazan for having the highest chesskid rating in the last 7 days of 2719.

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

Nashali Paulino