Daily Message from Coach West - Who Won Team Shirt Friday?

Who Won the Team Shirt Fridays Competition?

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Good Morning Friends!

Coach West here, welcome to continuing Spring chess! We hope everyone is well. Our 6th Team Shirt Friday is in the books, and we have a new champ.

The winning team was the Gladiators of PS 10 in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Gladiators joined the network last year, and have quickly established themselves as a major league presence.

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The Gladiators are working hard, and I know they are looking forward to their next opportunity to host us all at a Team Tournament.

Speaking of Team Tournaments, we want to thank everyone who came out yesterday and made our PS 33 Team Event such a huge success.

It was so great to see everyone in our analysis & team room, and the competition was fierce. Report with results coming soon!

Thanks,

Coach West

Congratulations to the following kids who promoted to new ChessKid Groups for online tournament competition!

  • PROMOTED TO USCF 1000+

  • Anay Varma 1056

  • Eisa Majewski 1032

  • PROMOTED TO USCF U1000

  • Ameya Prakash 729

  • Luke Gorga 841

  • Davey Murdoch 795

  • Alice Harris 787

  • Asher Cohen 826  

  • PROMOTED TO USCF U700

  • Bennett Sabino 397 

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

  • Anthony Cortese (111)

  • Marisa Pacelli (33)

  • Davey Murdoch (11)

  • Tabitha Peterson (11)

  • Jude Badawi (33)

  • Caitlin Adams (139)

  • Peter Volik (10)

  • Adam Abdelgawad (BIB)

  • Clark Shlisky (77)

  • Wolfgang Damon (33)

1000 +

  • Chris DeDona (49)

  • Chloe Stark (33)

  • Nathan Liu (Roxbury)

  • Jonas Flores-Zeledon (139)

  • Jacob Meyers (33)

  • Amitai Sebba (BCD)

  • Christoffer Lamtan (11)

  • Chenran Zhao (59)

  • Santiago Rondeau (Hunter)

  • Josh Price (Homeschool)

U1000

  • Devin Wang (77)

  • Kunj Somani (59)

  • Wiley Howe (33)

  • Jack West (139)

  • Henry Berlach (10)

  • Philip Moy (59)

  • Charles Jia (77)

  • Jose Rondeau (77)

  • Avin Pawar (33)

  • Harrison Leese (139)

U700

  • Ameya Prakash (77)

  • Dihren Hemdev (59)

  • Bruce Yaryshkin (10)

  • Matthias Chun (77)

  • Hunter Zelznick (130K)

  • William Dong (59)

  • Victoria Volik (10)

  • Leo Kocan (230)

  • Anthony Cortese (111)

  • Kai Hei Wong (33)

U300

  • Abigail Ho Yun (130M)

  • Kabeer Chaudry (33)

  • Ethan Yeung (130M)

  • Cary Yeung (130M)

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 111, 8 points

  • PS 11, 5 points

  • PS 139, 2 points

1000 +

  • PS 33, 5 points

  • PS 11, 4 points

  • PS 49, 3 points

  • Roxbury, 2.5 points

U1000

  • PS 77, 7 points

  • PS 59, 4.5 points

  • PS 33, 4.5 points

  • PS 139, 4 points

U700

  • PS 77, 10 points

  • PS 10, 8 points

  • PS 59, 7 points

  • PS 33, 6 points

U300

  • PS 130M, 4 points

  • PS 33, 1.5 points

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ICN Puzzle Competition:

  • PS 33's Team leads with a total of 10,361 puzzles completed (Top 10)

  • PS 33's Team leads with a total of 19,125 puzzles completed (All Time)

  • PS 33's Nik Vig is leading the charts with 912 puzzles completed in the last 7 days.

  • PS 33's Daniel Mulvhill is leading the charts with 115 puzzles completed in one day.

  • A special congratulations to PS 33's Max Cacciatore for having the highest chesskid rating in the last 7 days of 2727.

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

Nashali Paulino