By Beth Rowan, Founder of Evergreen Ally To succeed in chess, you must decide up front whose game you want to play – yours or your opponent’s? If you don’t open strong and set up your play early, you may be relegated to merely defending your pieces from being taken. The concept is the same …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern When I first started learning chess my main point of focus was openings. Generally openings are often a starter point for new chess players. Unfortunately many new players like myself forget to learn the endgame as well. This can lead to a game loss as we see in this game …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern The last time the Olympic Games were cancelled was in 1940. Japan was going to be the first non-Western country to host the Olympics. However, after Japan declared war on China the games were cancelled. It has been 80 years since then and the Olympic games have once again been …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern We are going to take a look at the Lindores Abbey Rapid Tournament. The game we will be looking at is between Magnus Carlsen, playing as black, and Hikaru Nakamura, playing as white. The game opens up with a Ruy Lopez, 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5. Here …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern When the World Chess Championship was cancelled many chess players were upset as the tournament happens every other year. Magnus Carlsen was looking forward to playing against the champion of the tournament. Unfortunately the tournament had to end due to the pandemic. Carlsen decided to take some initiative by creating …
After finishing week 1, we have 3 exciting updates regarding virtual camp: 1) Since we got some inquiries from middle schoolers, we decided to make camp PreK- 8th Grade. 2) We added an extra west coast afternoon session each week from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM PST. East coast kids are also welcome to join if they’d like an evening …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern Ariel Piekes, an IP attorney, wanted to enlighten his colleagues on how passionate they were about their profession. He asked them “can you do your job in space?” While this is meant to be rhetorical it is thought provoking. National Master Evan Rabin, the CEO of Premier Chess immediately knew …
By Shai Hecker, Operations Intern Premier Chess began its virtual camp yesterday and it was great! The day began with an introduction where the kids got to know each other. After that Brian taught an interactive lesson with the campers on Paul Morphy’s famous Opera House Game The game opened up like this: Brian then …
by Shai Hecker, Operations Intern “On the surface, chess and dance seem to have little in common. Chess players sit. Dancers move. Yet chess and dance are both life-long hobbies, feature similar technology, have gender imbalances, may be considered a sport or art, use business skills, and facilitate meeting new people.” –Dr. Alexey Root, IM …
by Shai Hecker, Operations Intern Samuel Reshevsky was born on November 26, 1911 in Poland. His family moved to United States when he was just a young boy and he played in exhibitions all around the country. In 1922 Reshevsky competed in the New York Masters Tournament where he obtained his status as a chess …
