Daily Message from Coach Russ - New ICN Ratings!
Dear Friends,
We are thrilled to announce the opportunity for uninterrupted rated match play through our NEW ICN Online Rating System (IORS). These ratings will take into consideration many of the same factors of our traditional USCF ratings and apply them to games played in our online chess leagues and events.
We will use each player's current USCF rating as a benchmark for introducing these new ratings. This is a GAME changer as it allows our players to continue to set short, medium and long term goals, have the opportunity to be promoted into more challenging sections and continue to track their chess development and progress DAILY.
Once we return to over the board play, we fully expect to return to our gold standard USCF ratings...in the meanwhile we could not be more excited to provide uninterrupted rated match play through our ICN rating system!
Remember, players can only move up. If your ICN rating slips below your USCF rating you will not be moved to a lower section grouping! Also if a player has not engaged in our online chess play, they will be assigned their last USCF rating.
Ratings will be updated daily and section promotions will be made every Monday.
You can find your child's new ICN Rating below.
Now all of our TOP Player lists under our ICN Zone have been updated to reflect our new ICN Ratings
Starting today, we will be regrouping our online league sections to reflect the rating growth of our players over the past month.
(Please see full list of promotions below)
Finally, we will be using our new ICN ratings for this Sunday's Chelsea Prep Chess Tournament! You can find all of the details below.
Be well,
Coach Russ
Chelsea Prep April 26th Tournament:
We are thrilled to announce our season's 1st Chelsea Prep Chess Tournament. Chelsea Prep has been a scholastic powerhouse for many years winning at the City, State and National level! We look forward to welcoming everyone this Sunday!
Section Promotions:
Join us in congratulating the below players who will be moved into higher sections based on our new ICN Ratings.
Promoted to 1000 +
Akaash Rau 1171
Joshua Kuruvilla 1128
Kiaan Javeri 1117
Emma Phu 1090
Micah Reiss 1061
Matthew Wu 1022
Promoted to 700 +
Noah Banning 950
Daniel Terentyev 937
Harrison Leese 871
Takki Tanaka 869
Jack West 863
Jack Walters 863
Kevin Xie 837
Avin Pawar 823
Clark Shlisky 816
Advay Misra 809
Charles Kim 801
Wesley T Huang 793
Junoo Yang 783
Donovan Fox 777
Lukas Kam 767
James Chan 758
Jose Rondeau 736
Steven Lin 731
Kelvin Rustani 729
Lia Barros 728
Mahima Paleja 716
Clarity Shuman 715
Milo Glover Wilson 715
Luca Vucetic 714
Simon Rifkin 711
Promoted to 300 +
Wolf Allen 699
Leon Yuan 665
William Moffitt 651
Finn Loomis 649
Sean Casey Jr. 628
Elias Chu 627
Aileen Lou 625
Roger Pan 616
Ryan Wertheimer 613
Evelyn Guo 610
Mayaimi Lam 610
Samaira Mody 601
Shaya Zaman 589
Kai Sean 584
Charles Chan 568
JakeRyan Lu 561
Elias Varming 561
Lauren Song 559
Jackie Grettum 556
Colton Choi 553
Rayansh Bhargava 551
Henry Schoolman 548
Maho Sato 547
Jack Dagley 544
Athena Matos 542
Ryan Wang 541
Eleanor Freeman 537
Austin Yam 534
Bryce Wong 533
Jacob Benchimol 531
Ayaan Saraf 529
Chloe Tsang 528
Dennis Egorov 527
Scarlett Francia-Casalini 526
Ananya Bhatnagar 526
Byron Godbout 525
Oliver McManus 512
Mason Shao 508
Theodore Han 507
Arielle Guo 505
Preston Farber 502
Maxwell Schrager 501
Maeve Wu 500
Charles Smith 495
Julian Rogove 490
Miles Gossen-Young 484
Brayden Yue 483
Lucas Li 481
Ethan Mosca 477
Kian Nigam 472
Alexandra Wada 463
Audrey Chan 459
Jasper Vinod 459
Oliver Goh 428
Jacob Nguyen-Huynh 422
Aiden Holstein 413
Gable Carney 407
Oscar Shawwa 403
Ayan Shrestha 394
Sophia Elicier 393
Daniel Mulvihill 387
Yonah Wolfhagen 385
Akari Vallon 379
Morgan Mayo 373
Addison Binns 372
Elias Chun 361
Mickey Boller 361
Kyle Kong 355
Parker Chang 349
Serena Cortes 337
Maximus Vallon 337
Zachary Ho Yun 323
Zachary Cowal 322
Atticus Catto 315
Claire Larocca 313
Hana Mae Ninomiya 312
Julia Rettig 310
Henry Distelzweig 307
Derek Leung 306
Leni Brenner 301
Zachary Ho Yun 323
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
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 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
Devin Wang (77)
Jeremy K. Yoon (10)
Micah Reiss (59)
Wolfgang Damon (33)
Ashwin Bear (Trinity)
Emma Phu (11)
Adam Abdelgawad (BIB)
Miles Cowal (230)
William Lucas (33)
Anthony Cortese (111)
1000 +
Elliot Goodrich (77)
Chloe Stark (33)
Nathan Peyton (41)
Amitai Sebba (BCD)
Rohail Shah (PS40)
Christoffer Lamtan (11)
Jonas Flores-Zeledon (139)
Adrian Clubb (10)
Maxwell Stringer (33)
Nathan Liu (Roxbury)
U1000
Miles Dowshen Flores (139)
Kiaan Javeri (59)
Wolfgang Damon (33)
Kunj Somani (59)
Anay Varma (11)
Matthew Wu (59)
Emma Phu (11)
Devin Wang (77)
Akaash Rau (116)
Abyl Dowshen Flores (139)
U700
Lia Barros (139)
Noah Banning (10)
Leo Kocan (230)
Steven Lin (230)
Avin Pawar (33)
Charles Kim (10)
Charlie Rozenfeld (130K)
Arjun Bhatnagar (10)
Jose Rondeau (77)
Anthony Cortese (111)
U300
Sean Casey Jr. (10)
William Moffitt (230)
Colton Choi (BIB)
Simon Rifkin (116)
Jackie Grettum (33)
Theodore Han (77)
Advay Misra (59)
Finn Loomis (139)
Roger Pan (BIM)
Morgan Mayo (10)
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 33, 8.5 points
PS 77, 8 points
PS 111, 5 points
PS 10, 3.5 points
1000 +
PS 33, 4 points
PS 77, 3 points
PS 41, 3 points
BCD, 2 points
U1000
PS 59, 7.5 points
PS 139, 4 points
PS 11, 3 points
PS 33, 2.5 points
U700
PS 10, 9 points
PS 33, 5 points
PS 130K, 5 points
PS 139, 4 points
U300
PS 33, 5 points
PS 10, 4 points
PS 77, 4 points
PS 230, 3 points
ICN Puzzle Competition:
PS 33's Team leads with a total of 8,773 puzzles completed (Top 10)
PS 33's Team leads with a total of 16,189 puzzles completed (All Time)
PS 33's Nik Vig is leading the charts with 936 puzzles completed in the last 7 days.
PS 33's Amy Meng is leading the charts with 100 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