Shulman Chess

Summer Chess Camps 2012

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:33:26 +0000

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June 18 - 22
June 25 - 29
July 16 -20
July 30 - August 3

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Summer Chess Camp – Quest Academy Complete Registration

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:26:49 +0000

Summer Chess Camps!!

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:40:48 +0000

9th Yury Shulman Summer Chess Camps

Quest Academy, Palatine (June 18-22, June 25-29 and July 30-August 3rd)

Barrington High School (July 16-20)

Featuring Four World Class Chess Grandmasters:

GM Yury Shulman

Chess Awards:

2011 and 2010 U.S. Championship Runner-up, 2009 World Team Championship: Silver, 2008 Chess Olympiad Bronze Medalist.

• Every camp will have at least 3 grandmasters and other title coaches.

• Small groups of 10-15 students.

• Grandmasters rotate between groups.

• Earlier drop off and later pick up available for an additional $10/hour.

• Students will play in a tournament.

• Special Events such as: bughouse, blitz, puzzle contest and outdoors!

• Beginners are welcome!

• The last day of camp: Pizza for everyone and Awards!

Early bird: Register before March 1 and get a special price!

Camp held at Barrington High School (July 16-20). Flyer available here.

Camps held at Quest Academy (June 18-22, June 25-29 and July 30-August 3rd). Flyers are available here.

Online registration available here.

Mesgen Amanov

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:11:29 +0000

GM Mesgen is currently the number one rated player in his homeland of Turkmenistan. He has represented his home country in the 2006 and 2008 Olympiads and will do so again in 2010. Mesgen also has represented Turkmenistan in multiple World Youth Championships. In 2009 he was the IL State Co-Champion along with one of his Chicago Blaze teammates. Mesgen became an International Master in 2007 and achieved his Grandmaster title in 2009.

Our tentative schedule

Alex Onischuk

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:06:39 +0000

GM Alex Onischuk

He is currently the third-ranked American grandmaster, behind Hikaru Nakamura and Gata Kamsky.

3rd: Aerosvit tournament Phoros 2007

1-2: Biel 2007

2nd: US Championship 2008

3rd: 2008 Chess Olympiad

1st: Moscow Open 2009

3rd: US Championship 2009

3rd: US Championship

1st: The second board. World Team Chess Championship.

Gregory Kaidanov

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:04:23 +0000

GM Gregory Kaidanov

He learned to play when he was 6 years old from his father. At age 8, he started to attend a chess study group in ‘Pioneer’s House.’

As an adult, he moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1991, with his two children and wife. He now coaches the chess team for Sayre School.

He won the 1992 World Open in Philadelphia, and the 1992 U.S. Open.

His first major tournament win came in Moscow 1987, where he defeated Indian star Vishwanathan Anand. He earned the IM title that same year, and was awarded the GM title just a year later in 1988.

He is the head coach of the www.uschessschool.com founded in 2006 by IM Greg Shahade.

He is one of the most active Grandmaster teachers in the United States. In 2009 he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Chess awards:

Became an International Master, 1987
Became a Grandmaster, 1988

member of US team, in World Chess Olympiad (Istanbul, Turkey,2000)
member of US team, in World Chess Olympiad (Bled Slovenia,2002)
winner of Aeroflot Open, one of the strongest open tournaments ever (80+ GMs) Moscow, Russia,2002
member of US team,who finished 4th in World Chess Olympiad (Calvia, 2004)
member of US team, who finished 3rd in World Chess Olympiad (Torino, 2006)
3rd place in US Championship (Stillwater, OK, 2007)
Coach of U.S Women’s Bronze Medal Team (Dresden, Germany, 2008)

Yury Shulman

Yury — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:02:06 +0000

GM Yury Shulman

Chess Awards:

2011 and 2010 U.S. Championship Runner-up, 2009 World Team Championship: Silver, 2008 Chess Olympiad Bronze Medalist, 2008 U.S. Champion, 2006 U.S. Open Champion, T-1st World Open 2001, 1st: Montreal 2008

Yury Shulman achieved the Grandmaster title in 1995 and moved to the U.S. four years later to become one of the top American players

Shulman also coached the 2006 Women’s Olympiad team in Turin to an impressive fourth place finish. In 2008, Yury joined the men’s Olympic team and helped lead them to a fantastic bronze medal finish. Yury scored the final clutch win over Ukraine’s board four, Efimenko to clinch bronze.

Yury credits his excellent results in the past few years to his chess students. Yury has been teaching since he graduated from UTD. He also founded the organization Chess Without Borders.

Teaching has helped him see chess in a different way, and he even came up with opening novelties while working with his students. Some chess professionals only teach because of the financial reward, but Yury claims that even if he were rich, he’d still coach. To learn from Shulman, you can buy his book Chess! Lessons From a Grandmaster. (Read Elizabeth Vicary’s CLO review.)

Meet Duniya-a new volunteer

Kiran — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:59:57 +0000

The chess community welcomes new social entrepreneurs into its community. Dunya is a 5th Grader at Hough. She plays chess, flute & piano as well as train to become a ballerina. She loves being involved in as many activities as possible and thats what interested her in being a volunteer. She will be able to find a creative outlet for her passions as well as help others. Dunya will embark on a mission to volunteer for 50 hours over the next year in order to qualify for the Presidential Service Award offered by The White House through Chess Without Borders.

Students at Chess Without Borders have made new moves as social entrepreneurs. This new role has inspired students to lead as documentarians, fund raising organizers, artists, musicians and social entrepreneurs.

Social Entrepreneur

Kiran — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:09:57 +0000

Dominic Oetinger is a student at Hough Street School where he is also involved in the chess club. Dominic with the assistance of his mother will be the President of the Hough Street Chess Tournament coming up this month on the 25th. In collaboration with local businesses and students and parents Dominic will try to raise funds for little Meher who lives in the opposite end of the world in India. Meher was severely burnt in a fire when she was an infant and over the last 3 years the chess community has raised almost $26,000 to help her have several surgical procedures on her face and hands. Students and their families working within the chess community are now helping Meher receive an education. Meher lives in the slums of Delhi, India and without this help she would have had no future. For more information a video about this project can be seen at http://www.vimeo.com/17509410.

Students like Dominic have enthusiastically given their time and service for this cause but in turn have built an understanding and developed valuable skills such as enterprise, generosity and initiative as they work together. These social entrepreneurs have learned to collaborate with all age groups, engaged in the various art forms, and have set themselves on a path to serve and commit towards qualifying for the Presidential Service Award over the next year.

Above is a picture of Dominic on the left with another student at the Hough School chess club.

We are proud of our students and enjoy working on projects with them that make a difference in our world. A video updating the documentary, A Future for Meher” will be filmed during the tournament to help others understand the service done by our volunteers to have made this possible.

Chess Players turned Musicians turned Fund Raisers

Kiran — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:21:12 +0000

In the generous spirit of service chess players Prasanth Madana, Shelby and Jared Munstermann, Robert Said and Toby Schwartz dazzled the crowd with their music at the Salem United Methodist Church on Feb 5th. They performed an eclectic combination of pieces under the leadership of Ron Swanson. Through their music and food served by volunteers the church raised $1600. The money will be used for volunteer work in the 9th ward of New Orleans still rebuilding from Katrina.

Picture above shows (R to L ) Shelby, jared, Ron Swanson, Prasanth, Robert Said and Toby Schwartz.

It is inspiring to watch our students share themselves in the service of others. All these students will be working towards the Presidential Volunteer Service Award from the White House for next year and hope to volunteer 50 hours in order to accomplish this milestone.

	Monday		Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00 – 9:15	Registration for AM and Full Day Groups	9:00 – 10:00	Lecture with Instructor	Lecture with Instructor	Lecture with Instructor	Lecture with Instructor
9:15 – 10:15	Simul with Instructor	10:00 – 10:15	Snack	Snack	Snack	Snack
10:15 – 10.30	Snack	10:15 – 11:15	Consulting Game	Special Tactical Training	Lecture	Fun chess puzzles and interesting facts!
10:30 – 11:15	Game Analysis from the Simul	11:15 – 12:00 pm	Practical Exercises	Lecture	Team Tournament	Summarizing Lecture
11:15 – 12:00 pm	Lecture #1	12:00 – 1:00	Lunch and Outside activities	Lunch and Outside Activities	Lunch and Outside Activities	Pizza and outside activities for everyone!!
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch and outside activities	1:00 – 2:00	Tournament – Round 2	Tournament – Round 3	Tournament – Round 4	Tournament – Round 5
1:00-1:15	Registration for PM Groups	2:00 – 3:00	Lecture / Analysis with Instructor	Lecture / Analysis with Instructor	Lecture / Analysis with Instructor	Game Analysis
1:00 – 2:00	Tournament – Round 1	3:00 – 4:00	Snack and Blitz Tournament	Snack and Puzzle Solving Competition	Snack and Bughouse Tournament!!!	2:45 pm Snack, Q&A Session and Recommendations with Instructor
2:00 – 3:00	Game Analysis with an Instructor		10:15 – 11:15 Round 2 Tournament – AM group	10:15 – 11:15 Round 3 Tournament – AM group	10:00 – 11:00 Round 4 Tournament – AM group	3:40 pm Closing Ceremony
3:00 – 3:15	Snack		11:15 – 12:15 Blitz Tournament AM Group	11:15 – 12:15 Puzzle Solving Competiton AM Group	11:00 – 12:00 Bughouse Tournament!!! AM Group	10:00 – 11:00 – Round 5 Tournament – AM Group
3:15 – 4:00	Tactics!					11:00 – 11:45 Summarizing Lecture for AM Group