Greetings chess players! My name is Chris Torres and this is my Daily Chess Musing for February 13, 2024.
It’s almost time for the 54th annual US Amateur Team West chess tournament. A President’s Day Weekend tradition, the USATW is a fun chess event open to teams of four players plus an optional alternate. Over the years, there have been many famous chess players and many great games played at the US Amateur Team West so, of course, I am almost always on hand to review chess games and take photos. Come and see me this weekend at the US Amateur Team West chess tournament in Milpitas, California and you may:
Win a Brilliancy Prize
Have your game or photo included in the next CalChess Journal magazine
Be featured in an upcoming Chess Life article on the tournament
It’s not too late to join the fun at the 2024 US Amateur Team West chess tournament. Registration is easy at the link below:
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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