Milind Maiti with his chess coach, Chris Torres.Milind Maiti with his Sister, Mother and trophy from the Nationals.
California has a new chess star and his name is Milind Maiti. On 12/4/2010 Milind won five out of five games in the kindergarten section at the Calchess Grade Level Championship in Stockton, California. The following weekend, young Mr. Maiti finished with a score of 5.5/7 in the kindergarten section at the USCF National K-12 Championship in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. This performance was good enough to tie for third place in Milind Maiti’s first National Chess Championship. Milind Maiti’s performance in these two tournaments has had the effect of changing the chess vernacular at Collins Elementary School in Cupertino, California. Now when attendees of the Collins Chess Club checkmate one another we say “check Maiti!”
Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.
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3 thoughts on “Check Maiti”
Gr8 going nephew!! Kudos to Maitis!!
This surely is just the beginning of the ‘check Maiti’ era.
Need to re-check Nostradamus predictions on a kindergartner from Cupertino and of Indian origin who would turn out to be a LEGEND :-).
Gr8 going nephew!! Kudos to Maitis!!
This surely is just the beginning of the ‘check Maiti’ era.
Need to re-check Nostradamus predictions on a kindergartner from Cupertino and of Indian origin who would turn out to be a LEGEND :-).
~Phani Mama