Top Trainer & Hikaru's Dad, Sunil, This Saturday at 12 Noon
Join Us This Saturday at 12 Noon and Meet A World Chess Championship Trainer on a Live Zoom Telecast!
The Father of Step-Son, Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, currently the #2 Chess Player in the World and a Current Candidates Leader, will be Ready to Take Your Questions.
Please note this scheduling change. This event starts at 12 noon on Saturday, April 4!
How will your chess game benefit with a few, key insights from the greatest chess coach in history? Bring your questions and your interest in the world of championship chess to the Silverdale Chess Club this Saturday. Our video session will begin sharply at 12:00pm
The honorable Sunil Weeramantry is, without a doubt, one of the most successful chess coaches in history, the founder and current executive director of the National Scholastic Chess Foundation, and the lifetime trainer of the leading American challenger for the World Chess Championship, step-son Hikaru Nakamura.
Sunil became a chess master at the age of 15. He represented Sri Lanka in 1978, 2004, and 2006 at the Chess Olympiad. He won the New York State Chess Championship in 1975 and again in 2001 and was inducted into the New York State Chess Hall of Fame in 1996.
Sunil has served as the chairman of the United States Chess Federation's committee on Chess in Education. He has been an appointed member of the USCF Scholastic Committee from 1986 to the present and has served multiple two-year terms as the committee chair. He has received several awards from US Chess in recognition of his service, including the 2020 Distinguished Service Award. In 2004, he was named the "Chess educator of the year" by University of Texas at Dallas.
Weeramantry is also a chess author who co-authored by Random House (1993). This book was extensively re-written and expanded with new content and published as Best Lessons of a Chess Coach - Extended Edition by Mongoose Press (2020). Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History. The book, for middle school students through adults, teaches chess concepts in context with chess history and world history.
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The Silverdale Chess Club meets on Saturdays from 2:30-4:30 at Moment Brewing, 10876 Myhre Pl NW Suite 112, Silverdale, WA 98383
