My two younger sons play chess in their elementary school's chess program. There are competitions quite often, and the last tourny of the year is called Super State, and it's a invitational. Only the higher ranked players/ teams. My son Patrick placed 6th in his division out of close to 50 kids (he placed 12th in the state finals narrowly missing a top five placing). His team- he's the captain- (a captain already at age 6, lol) took home the K1 team first place trophy- they nearly knocked the #2 team off the podium with the celebration. Of course I'm proud of all three of my sons, but I had to share this moment with my online friends here at PP.

I need to learn how to play chess

Can't do it any younger....
Patrick played my aunt a few months back when she and my Dad's brother visited my folks. Before they played she took me aside and asked how my boys took losing. I told her they don't like to lose, but they don't throw tantrums or cry if that was what she was getting at. She then told me her brother was very good at chess and she's played quite a bit and was not in the habit of going easy on anyone. I told her not to take it easy...


Patrick beat her in four moves.


Then Paul beat her, and then Luis beat her. It's now a historic family moment she'll never live down.

Congrats, William. Definitely have a smart kid on your hands!

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Makes me wonder how well my wife knows the milk man.....


Just a bit of self depreciating humor there.

Hell, I think my brother and I are a product of some shenanigans. We're both 6'3" and my father is 5'8ish" and my mom is 5'5ish".

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Being able to play chess well is a gift, I think. I don't have the patience for it.

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Chess does rock, and congrats for teaching your kids so early.

I played competitively in HS, where my friend and I were pertty evenly matched as #1 and #2. Depending on how good the other teams #1 was, we would trade off playing as top ranked. Being better at playing to stalemate, I used to draw top spot if the other side had a wunderkind...

Played for awhile in college too... never will forget the spanking I got at the hands of a math professor... He smoked me three games fast, then spent the rest of the alotted time teaching me how he did it. Great guy, excellent teacher

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I used to play all the time, I need to get back into it. Chess rocks!

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Wow is that your actual rating? 2400 is grandmaster!

Nah, it probably translates to a real life rating of maybe 1900? I kinda choke when I play OTB.

Few years ago I posted some pics of the K-5 team I used to coach. We had a few pretty high ranked players. It was a pleasure coaching them.

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Congrats! You must be VERY proud...of ALL of them!

Save up your pennies for the trip to Bangkok!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqj31VPNoE

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First match of the year, smaller one. TD was short of his usual asst, but some of us pitched in and it came off fine. My son Paul was successful in his defense of the K-3 title and Patrick moved up from K-1 and placed 5th. The school program placed first in two of the three divisions.

SwissSys Standings. National Chess Day 10-09-2010: K-3

# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O]
1 Paul McCue 574 W3 W4 W6 L2 W10 4.0 15 17.5 13 53
2 Vladimir Mezokh 648 W12 W7 W5 W1 L3 4.0 14 16 14 49
3 Sagan Potenza 319 L1 W9 W15 W6 W2 4.0 13.5 14 10 44
4 Aryan Ranjan unr. W9 L1 W12 W7 W5 4.0 12.5 14.5 11 44
5 Patrick McCue 687 W16 W11 L2 W8 L4 3.0 13 13.5 11 42
6 Jerry Stegenga III 741 W15 W8 L1 L3 W12 3.0 13 13.5 10 40
7 Adin Mc Auliffe 501 W14 L2 W13 L4 W11 3.0 11 12 9 36
8 Andrew Potenza 459 W13 L6 W11 L5 W14 3.0 9 10 9 32
9 Kieran Abesamis 424 L4 L3 W16 D10 W15 2.5 7 11.5 5 32
10 Hannah Xie 422 L11 W13 W14 D9 L1 2.5 5.5 10.5 8 29
11 Demetri Michaels unr. W10 L5 L8 W13 L7 2.0 9.5 12.5 7 38
12 Bryan Bellinetti-Petz 351 L2 W16 L4 W15 L6 2.0 8 12 6 38
13 McKenna Beauchamp unr. L8 L10 L7 L11 W16 1.0 8 11 1 34
14 Madelyn Dupuis 109 L7 D15 L10 D16 L8 1.0 6.5 9.5 3 29
15 Adam Je Fabrikant 397 L6 D14 L3 L12 L9 0.5 8.5 12.5 2 34
16 Miranda McRae 103 L5 L12 L9 D14 L13 0.5 6.5 9.5 1 26
17 Angela Yan 670 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0

That is AWESOME! Give congrats to your son(or should I say sons?) from me(but of course, that's a strange thing to do. They'll be like "who??")! They all do so very well! I'm proud myself. I'd love to see them play and beat someone one day. I wish you video taped him beating your aunt in 4 moves.

I know how to PLAY chess...but I suck at it. But that's because I don't get much practice at it, and the only person I ever really played with was my dad...and he's way better than me...so...it's always like "Ugh...what's the point, you'll just beat me again." I mean, it's good to learn...but I'd feel better playing against someone at more my level.

Which I did. I played with my best friend. We were a pretty even match. So I'll gladly play against her anytime. My boyfriend, on the other hand. Ugh. He's good. I suck so badly compared to him that he pretty much let me kill his queen right at the beginning to make it at least a little bit more fair (because I wouldn't let him play without a queen right at the beginning)

Ah! But my uncle is good at it too. He and my boyfriend played against one another. It was a stalemate. But apparently my boyfriend would have won if he didn't miss one sneaky move.

I know I'll never take the time to actually get as good as either of them, and probably not even as good as your sons! But I will admit, it is an awesome game. Really fun. I'm such a nerd. Haha. I want that Harry Potter collectors edition chess set! Hahhaa. I'd always lose on it though >.< But it's still awesome!

You've taught your kids well! Thank you for sharing with us! I hope your other sons win big trophies like that one day too! They all deserve it, from what you've told us.

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