Thank you for joining us today. Please remember to click on the link for “JOIN TOURNAMENT” in your group assignments every day to join the tournaments. If you do not join them in advance then you cannot play. Be sure to pay attention after you finish your first game because the next round begins right after everyone has completed the first round.
ONLY the live sessions and the tournaments are necessary to do at a specific time! Any of the prerecorded lessons or chess problems can be done at any time. Even the live lessons will be recorded and can be viewed later if needed, but they are more fun when you can interact in the chat as well.
Please begin working on the video assignments after the morning message until the tournament round. You can continue them after the tournament until it is time for the live lesson.
All the chess problems listed are extra. You do not have to do all the problems in one day, or even do them at all. They are meant to fill in time if you happen to finish an assignment and are waiting for the next event to begin.
CHANGE IN PLANS!! MY INTERNET IS DOWN AND I AM UPDATING FROM MY PHONE APP, BUT I CANNOT DO THE LIVE LESSON FROM IT. PLEASE DO YOUR SCHEDULED ASSIGNMENTS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW. I WILL DO BOTH PARTS OF MY PLANNED LESSON TOMORROW INSTEAD. THE FIRST PART WILL BE AT 10 AM AND THE SECOND PART WILL BE AT 1 PM.
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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