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Recent Tournaments

(all recent tournaments)
CCCSA G10

CCCSA G10
Result

CCCSA G25

CCCSA G25
Result

Collegiate Rapid Blitz

Collegiate Rapid Blitz
Result

2020 NC Girls Chess

2020 NC Girls Chess
Result



Recent Games

(all recent games)
Alex Zhao (1418) vs
Sumedh Kotrannavar (1196) at
2019 Ligon Grade Championship
27..axb3 28. cxb3 Bxb3
Alex Zhao (1418) vs
Sumedh Kotrannavar (1196) at
2019 Ligon Grade Championship
29..Rxe6 30.Qh6 Kf7
Alex Zhao (1418) vs
Sumedh Kotrannavar (1196) at
2019 Ligon Grade Championship
22..Nd5 23. e6 Qe7 (or Nxe3 or Nxf4)
KLAUS A POHL (2209) vs
ELSHAN MORADIABADI (2643) at
Land of the Sky XXXII
LEVAN BREGADZE (2567) vs
EMMANUEL CARTER (2264) at
2019 Ticks
YOGYA KONERU (1433) vs
JOHN SMITHWICK (2013) at
2019 Ticks
Dutch winner from 2019 Ticks

Player Profiles

(all players in headline)
Name: PAIGE VICTORIA COOK Current Rating: 1547
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 U1500 State Co-Champion
Name: ROHAN CHUGH Current Rating: 1010
Location: NC, USA
School: Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy Grade: 6
Headline: 2018 NC K-1 State Champion
Name: DANNY XIA Current Rating: 1464
Location: NC, USA
School: Green Hope High School Grade: 12
Headline: 2018 NC K-8 U1200 State Co-Champion
Name: PRANAV CHOCKALINGAM Current Rating: 1634
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 U1500 State Co-Champion
Name: ZIYANG QIU Current Rating: 1951
Location: NC, USA
School: Enloe Magnet High School Grade: 12
Headline: 2018 NC K-5 State Champion
Name: GRISHAM NARASIMH PAIMAGAM Current Rating: 1523
Location: NC, USA
School: Parker Academic Center Grade: 8
Headline: 2018 NC K-3 State Co-Champion
Name: VISHNU VANAPALLI Current Rating: 2398
Location: NC, USA
School: NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Grade: 11
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
Name: ANAND BHATT Current Rating: 1962
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
Name: WILLIAM CURRY ODOM Current Rating: 1801
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
Name: NEO ZHU Current Rating: 2192
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
Name: EMMANUEL CARTER Current Rating: 2242
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
Name: NAVEEN PRABHU Current Rating: 2319
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-8 State Champion
Name: ARAV GOLDSTEIN Current Rating: 1912
Location: NC, USA
School: Durham Academy Grade: 8
Headline: 2018 NC K-3 State Co-Champion
Name: DANIEL CREMISI Current Rating: 2387
Location: NC, USA
Headline: 2018 NC K-12 State Co-Champion
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Kids, Education and Chess News

(all news)
CBS News: Chess instills new dreams in kids from rural Mississippi county
 Grade-school chess teams from Franklin County, Mississippi, blow past stereotypes about who can play chess and win national recognition.
NC lawmakers humbled and inspired by young chess players
 More than 20 young chess players took over part of the Legislative Building in Raleigh to bring public awareness of the educational benefits of youth chess programs. Along the way, every lawmaker was invited to participate in chess matches against the students that taught the adults some lessons about humility.
Vassily Ivanchuk is new World Champion in Rapid Chess
 The World Rapid Championships in Doha, Qatar, had a dramatic finish. Before the last round five players shared the lead with 10.0/14. Source: Chess Base
Rapport vs Wei Yi: Spectacular Match In China
 On Friday, GM Richard Rapport won a friendly match against GM Wei Yi. The match, held in China, provided exactly the entertainment you would expect from these two young and fighting players. Source: Chess.com
Wesley So, double winner in London
 Winning the Grand Chess Tour is a great achievement for Wesley So. On Sunday he also secured first place in London - so he won 295.000 $ in total. Source : Chess Base.
Is Magnus Carlsen A Chess Artist?
 Magnus Carlsen became known to the world as a chess artist... I dubbed him the Mozart of chess in the Washington Post and soon the moniker spread around the globe. Source : The Huffington Post
8 lessons we teach kids, and ourselves, through the game of chess
 From the opening move it was going to be an epic weekend. My 5-year-old son and I home alone. Usually a recipe for adventure, and a few moments of concern. Our tradition is turning the lower level of our house into a G-rated man-cave. By the time mom returns home on Monday everything should be back in place. Hopefully.
New 'Queen of Katwe' Trailer
 The upcoming drama Queen of Katwe has the potential to inspire some serious tears, at least from the looks of the first trailer Disney released in May. The inspirational tale follows the real-life journey of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan girl who beat incredible odds on her way to becoming a world chess champion.
ChessStream New Feature: Notation Booster
 We just added a new page called Notation Booster. You can replay a game by reading the notation and moving piece in the board. It will boost your notation skill because your chess brain needs to associate notation to board coordinate. Try it!
AI-Powered Apps That’ll School You in the Ways of Chess and Go
 HUMANS ARE LOSING. Last week artificial intelligence, for the first time in history, secured a definitive victory over a grandmaster Go player. While chess playing humans were outpaced by computer brains almost two decades ago, Go is multitudes more complex than chess, with an estimated 10761 possible games (Chess tops out around 10120).
More Than the Next Move - Chess Builds Skills
 Thornapple Kellogg Schools, MI — Research has shown students who play chess do well at several things. They are better problem-solvers; have improved concentration and memory; higher spatial reasoning, reading and math skills; and increased logic, creativity and strategic planning.