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1. DMV TYSONS CORNER 09-19-21
Joy (VA): 981 => 1205 2. THE PHILADELPHIA SEPTEMBER ACTION - DMV CHESS David (PA): 1137 => 1335 Congratulation to All
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1. Omaha Open
Max: 1147 => 1272， 4-0 Premier section Champion 2. NJ K-8 Paul: 563 (P24) => 916, 2nd place in U-900 Alex: 643 => 765 David: 989 (P20) => 1057 (P25) 3. DMV: Leo： 902 => 995 4. NY State Connor： 1459 => 1581 Matthew: 1015 => 1090 Congratulation to All Coach Andy (Chess) My WeChat ID: dongyaofeng8888 My email: princetonchessacademy@gmail.com My WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Doq3POU7XPy8jhNzqnYKrR My Telegram ID: @dongyaofeng My Telegram channel: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFRV3JEHdxtHimuT-g My Telegram group: https://t.me/joinchat/PgDNwRf27Jvw1VtSfkA9JA My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chesscoachandy My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/princetonchessacademy/ My Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/princetonchess My Twitter: https://twitter.com/chesscoachandy My Websites: Online classes (in Chinese): https://www.plqx.us/ Online classes (in English): http://www.chessstepsonlinelessons.com/ In-person classes: http://www.princetonchessacademy.com/ My blog: http://www.chessparents.net/ My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndyDong_princetonchessacademy https://tinyurl.com/k652kpfh My Chess.com club: https://www.chess.com/club/princeton-chess  One week-long tournament just ended after 9 rounds of fights. Lots of photos popped up on the WeChat moments. Several of them were my students. Because years have gone by, I won't call them students any more. The best word I can use is former students. Anyway, I am happy for them to grow up. As a base-level coach, I want to see my students grow up and become strong players.
Congratulation to all of them! Max, Roger, Will, Claire, Olivia, Katie, Florence, Sophie, Andy, Ryan, Joshua, etc. (not in order) On Saturday, I suddenly got the idea to build my Youtube. I had about 190 subscribers at that time. Thanks to support of parents, we reached 300+ over the weekend. It's still far from my target 1000 subscribers, but a nice start. So now I have to beef it up with contents.
One basic content can be "tactics". This is my strength. So I will discuss difficult tactic problems, sharing some puzzle rush results, and maybe also sharing some puzzle solving sessions. Another one is "study with me". Studying master games, such as ones by Magnus Carlsen, is my routine training. I will make it more formal and more regular. We will start with Carlsen's games. Maybe also Karpov, Kasparov, Nepo, Dubov, Fabiano, etc. We will see how far we could go. First we start with Carlsen. Third topic might be "current event". If I see any exciting games, I will share with you guys. I am still transferring my 5334 course. It will take a while. I will comment on PCA tournament games once in a while too. Let's wish for the best for the new 2021-2022 school year. I am trying to build up my Youtube Channel for chess. Basically it is a channel for beginners to intermediate players, i.e. USCF 0-1500+. I will need your help to get more subscribers. My first goal is 1000 subscribers. You can help with one-click subscibing which takes 3 seconds. If you have friends who are interested in chess or who want to learn chess, please help forward my channel to them. That will be even more helpful to all of us. https://www.youtube.com/c/AndyDong_princetonchessacademy https://tinyurl.com/k652kpfh or the QR code below. Thank you!  Many of you know that I have a 2-year course for 5334. Basically I tried to solve one problem per page every week on the spot. I have the week by week progress on this blog site. Now I am trying to move the whole course to Youtube so more people can access it.
Here is the Youtube list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6enq3h4vUxpK3GJRXfjb6RJ3EZeEVVG Please feel free to use it. Hopefully it can be helpful to you. If you like it, please subscribe to my channel. I am planning to add more contents to the channel. I have discussed the importance of in-person tournaments, so I won't repeat.
Checking the USCF TLA site: https://new.uschess.org/upcoming-tournaments, I found it's too cumbersome to search state by state. Because my students are all over the country, searching this way will not allow me to help them much. So I tried to re-organize the list with the help of simple programming. Here is the result. If you read English: http://www.chessstepsonlinelessons.com/tournaments.html If you read Chinese: https://www.plqx.us/t.html To limit the size of the list, the list covers next two weeks. I will refresh it every week. Hopefully this could help you start searching for in-person tournaments. The answer is maybe.
In person provides great interactive opportunities with the teacher, and classmates. That can give the kids more motivation and keep them interested in chess. That's one benefit. But is in person definitely better? I don't think so. I have taught in person and online both for last 7 years. From my observation, online students are more motivated to learn and more eager to play in tournaments. That's more important than just coming in and showing attendance. I always try my best to make my online class interactive. I ask a lot of questions, so the students have the chance to participate. More participation, better progress. One advantage for online class is everything can be recorded. Even if a student misses a class, he could watch the video and catch up. So I always have a long syllabus for online class. We can arrange our learning for the whole year. In person classes have to be cut into each quarter. So the knowledge might not be evenly spread out. We also need spend some time to repeat some lessons for each quarter because students always change. Another disadvantage for in-person class is: there is no score sheet for in-class games, so it's not possible for the teacher to review students' games. Online games always have the score sheets which the teacher can review at any time. Another issue with in-person class is that not all students can have access to an in-person class. I have students from everywhere, from east coast to California, Texas, to Canada. With internet, all can take my lessons. If you don't have USCF membership, you should think about signing up that first, because all rated tournaments require the membership. You can sign up here. Or you can check out my old blog: http://www.chessparents.net/blog/how-to-become-a-uscf-member
After you have the membership, use the methods I discussed a few days ago to search for a tournament. Usually the tournament announcement will tell you how to sign up, and how to pay the entry fee. Sometimes you have to mail-in the signup form and check, but nowadays almost everyone moves to online. You can fill up form and pay online directly. There are some tournaments you don't need pre-signup. Just show up and pay the entry fee onsite. As some old saying says, do it once or twice, you will know everything. |
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