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The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF [1]) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national rating system , awards national titles, sanctions over twenty national championships annually, and publishes ...
He began learning chess at age 4 from watching his older sister practicing the game. [1] He holds the record for being the youngest African-American player to earn the USCF National Master title, earning the title at age 10. [1] In January 2023, he earned his first IM norm at the NY City Winter IM Norm Invitational with a score of 6/9. [2]
Players are not allowed to draw by agreement. The event is a 14-player round-robin, where every player plays once against every other player on the field. Players get 1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. The player with the most points at the end of the last round wins the event.
+7−6=4: Prior to the last game the players agreed to extend the match. Many sources classify this as the first of two matches instead of one extended match. 4: 1894: Albert Hodges: Jackson Showalter +5−3=1: Can be considered a match extension or a new match. 5: 1895: Jackson Showalter (3) S. Lipschütz +7−4=3: 6: 1896: Jackson Showalter ...
where R new and R old are the player's new and old ratings respectively, D i is the opponent's rating minus the player's rating, W is the number of wins, L is the number of losses, C = 200 and K = 32. The term (W-L) / 2 is the score above or below 0. ΣD / 4C is the expected score according to: 4C rating points equals 100%. [15]
The Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas.Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation, the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is open to any team comprising four players and up to two alternates from the same post-secondary school (university, college, community college) in North America, Central America, South ...
Sam Sevian player profile at Chess.com; Sam Sevian on Twitter; 10-year-old Samuel Sevian plays a blitz chess game with Greg Shahade; 8-year-old expert from susanpolgar.blogspot.com; The United States Chess Federation Top Aged 9 from uschess.org; Kraft, Scott (May 5, 2011), "At age 10, chess master is already an old pro", Los Angeles Times
At junior high school IS 318 in New York City, he was a member of the team that won the K-8 junior high school national championship in 2010 and the first middle school team to win the K-12 high school national championship in 2012. Williams was featured as the star player of his junior high school chess team in the 2012 documentary Brooklyn ...