Greetings Northern California chess players. My name is Chris Torres and I am excited to tell you about the Brilliancy Prizes for the K-5 CalChess Super State Championship. This year, in collaboration with The Eade Foundation, we will be awarding a couple of signed copies of the top selling chess book “Chess for Dummies” by FM James Eade as a brilliancy prize to the best chess games we see at the 2022 CalChess Super State Championship. To be eligible for this exciting prize, players need to come to the registration table and show their games to the CalChess Scholastic Coordinator (that’s me.) As an added bonus, all children who participate will have their games analyzed and possibly included in the next issue of the CalChess Journal, Northern California official chess magazine.
So make sure your child remembers to notate their games and I will see you this weekend in Santa Clara, California for the 2022 K-5 CalChess Super State Championship.
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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