By CEO National Master Evan Rabin When National Master Jesse Lozano, National Master Bob Holliman, Shelby Lohrman and I won “Best Team Name” at the United States Amateur Team East last February with “Caruanavirus”, I had no idea the virus would have a major effect on my life. Two weeks later I did my last …
By Dmitriy Belyavskiy Chess is a wonderful, exciting and intellectual game, which has been around for almost 1,500 years, played around the world by different ages from schoolboys and schoolgirls to scientists, artists, and even “played” by politicians and world dictators. History of chess does not keep the exact record where precisely this wonderful and …
By Premier Chess CEO National Master Evan Rabin I was born and raised on the Upper West Side as a reform Ashkenazi Jew. I had my bar mitzvah at Stephen Wise Synagogue and went to Churchill and Dwight. In 2008, thanks to some inspiration from Alanna Katz, I went on an Oranim Taglit trip. …
By CEO National Master Evan Rabin Our 3-day first week of virtual camp flew by. Here are some numbers of camp so far: -76+ registrations -7 instructors -8-1 student-teacher ratio This past week we had a whopping 40 kids in the mornings, split into 5 groups, taught by National Expert Brian Wilmeth, Director of Virtual …
By Wendy Oliveras, MS, Creative Founder & CEO at SHESS Global Alliance, LLC I am fascinated and excited by the remarkable success of the NETFLIX series “The Queen’s Gambit,” which focuses on a young female orphan who plays the game of chess at genius levels.\ I’m particularly gratified that the positive reaction to the show has resulted …
“The Queen’s Gambit” – Wake up ladies and learn to play chess for fun! Read More »
Now is the Time to Increase Brand Awareness for your Chess-Related Business with Public Relations Outreach By Andrea Pass According to Netflix, The Queen’s Gambit is its most-watched limited series with 62 million accounts watching within the first 28 days of release. The show is based on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name …
–Classes will be taught by Premier Chess CEO National Master Evan Rabin, Grandmaster Mark Paragua, our Director of Virtual Programs Expert Brian Wilmeth and other experienced instructors. -All Classes will be held on Zoom and feature and incorporate live lectures, practice games and puzzles. –We have 9 youth options, 4 adult options and 1 senior option …
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By Audrey Schwartz I am the first to admit that I am chess failure. My brother tried to teach me when I was a teen but after he repeatedly beat me in three moves, I decided to hang up my knight and play solitaire. Looking back, I can see that I was either unable or …
By Premier Chess CEO National Master Evan Rabin The above screenshot is from a late-night Lichess.org simul stream that I did last night. Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura single handedly brought chess on the Twitch map with his stream; he frequently has 10,000+ concurrent viewers. Since then, I have been inspired to stream more and more, where …
