Interview with Jason Bui, Founder of Philadelphia Chess Society
Latvian Gambit
by Matt Grinberg, Founder of Alamogordo Chess Club I was thinking about the Latvian Gambit recently. I used to play it regularly and had good success against higher rated players. Unfortunately it didn’t seem to work so well against lower rated players. I think the problem for higher rated players was that they knew a little …
Halftime at 1st Annual Premier Chess and Top Level Chess Grand Prix
It is now half-time of our 1st Annual Premier Chess and Top Level Chess Grand Prix! Our first few five tournaments went by more quickly than we ever could have imagined. Congrats to Mateo Uribe from PS 321 who is currently leading the Grand Prix with a fitting score of 64. Julian Griffin from Buckley is the …
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Electrical Contracting and Chess
How would I compare the electrical contracting industry to a game of chess, easy Start with a sales strategy Start …
ChessMatec by Grandmaster Boris Alterman
After co-directing our 4th tournament of 1st Annual Premier Chess and Top Level Chess Grand Prix with Women’s International Master Shernaz Kennedy at Grace Church School this past Sunday, I had the privilege of meeting with Grandmaster Boris Alterman and his wife Luba Alterman. We chatted about our education businesses, my tournament experience in Israel, their upcoming meeting with …
Active Rest
While riding an exercise bike at Atomic Total Fitness, my trainer Mike Murray was training me how to alternative between some intervals where I’d sprint and others where I’d take “active rest”. Naturally as a chess player, I overanalyzed his guidance to determine the rational of the paradox. By slowing down but continuing to pedal, …
The Root of the Problem
After losing a chess game, a beginner will often ask “Where did I go wrong?” The truth is most often a player will not lose a game because of 1 bad move. While it is true one major blunder can ruin a game, generally speaking a better player wins because he makes better moves to …
A Premier Chess Year in Review
“And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills Well, the landslide will bring it down Oh, the landslide will bring it down” -“Landslide” Fleetwood Mac On the whole, 2019 was a great year for Premier Chess and we look forward to seeing what 2020 begins. As I am in Boston for New …
Grand Prix Results after 3 Tournaments
As we were approaching the beginning of 2020, we have completed 3 out 10 of our Premier Chess and Top Level Chess Grand Prix tournaments. You can see the results so far here. This is scoring system for Grand Prix: 1st Place Trophy- 3 points 2nd Place Trophy- 2 points 3rd Place Trophy- 1 point …
Nittel Nacht 5780
Last year before Gillie Shanowitz, Director of New York Hebrew, hired us to run our first Shabbat Class ( our next one is coming up on Jan 18, 2020), she was impressed about how many Chabad Shluchim (emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe) I knew well. Over the years, several Chabad Rabbis, including Peretz Chein of Chabad …