My son is a chess prodigy. What do I do now?

My 11 year old son joined chess kids last month and is already 1900+ . The nearest competition that i have seen on there is 1500 and maybe one 1600. He is learning so fast. When I checked in on him last night he was even playing TWO games at once! On the desktop with ChessKid and on his phone he had what looked like a game going on the lyechess app. It’s quite remarkable.

My question is where do I go from here? Buy him books? Hire a coach?

Thanks

Hire a coach to at least evaluate his ability. Get a coach that's over 2200 USCF, just so you get someone that can do an accuate evaluation. Preferably, at least get a GM to at least do the evaluation, then he could suggest an appropriate level coach if a GM rated coach is too expensive.

Arguably, getting the best coach that money can buy is a good thing, but if your son is 1900 on chess com, he'll need an established OTB rating to better understand his ability and better figure out what rating level of a coach he needs.

But an initial evaluation by a GM or FM would be very helpful in the short term. A USCF master or senior master would be sufficient too.

Sounds like some bright kid you got there. 

Have you already told him that?

Delicate question, but are you sure it wasn't an engine on the phone? He's just 11, and might not even know it's against the rules.

could you share some of those games?

My advice might be a little different. I would suggest that he play an over the board competition. Whether it's a school, or a local tournament. Then you will have a much better idea of his ability. Assuming he does very well, do nothing. If he is improving that much by himself, dont interfere. Besides, too much chess at that age rarely leads to anything good.

To be dead honest I am a kid myself and my rating on Chess.com is 800 and 900 on ChessKid (I don’t play on ChessKid often as I find the games quite easy) but to be honest I think a ChessKid rating is way off.
If it is legit he most likely has been playing people way below his level because the rating systems is very broken. Sometimes as a 900 (ChessKid) I get matched up against players who are 100 rated. So either he is cheating (using a engine), getting matched up against total noobs, or is actually really good. He should try Chess.com the ratings are much more accurate (about 200 off from your real chess rating). And they also have a report system meaning if he is a cheater (IF HE IS) he will likely be banned.
Which should help to test if he is cheating.

Hire a coach for advice

Turns out, there's a program in China where if you turn in your children who are good at chess they can make endless money for you! That way, you're getting big money AND you don't need to feed one mouth more! A win-win!

Whaat? Nooooo. Definitely not an advertisement. I'm just pointing out a neat little...offer that exists, that's all.

i've seen lots of those claims in this forum but they never share the games

If I had a 1900 USCF son I would tell him how proud I am of him.

 

Then I'll tell him he's adopted.

Don't feed the trolls.

Nonsense. You see a starved creature, you'd better try and make it not die. Unless it's Parliament, in which sucks to be them

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I would check to see if your son wasn't using engine

I would say its a 50% chance on chesskid to be paired with a cheater.

Inflate his ego to help dunning and Kruger