OK, guess I'm not good...
But for U-8, is that really the level of play there is?
Thats pretty high, for the age
Are you good for your age?
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Shadowknight911 wrote:
I just looked at the Canadian U8 ratings and they suck, top guy is 1260. That doesn't seem right, seems way low. In the US, the top U8 kid, Trung Nguyen, won the US K-3 Elementary School Nationals this weekend and is almost 1900 USCF. I think there are about 15 players U8 who are above 1500 now.
NM Sam Sevian, who is now 11 years old and the top U12 FIDE player in the world at 2247, when he was in 2nd grade was already at 2000 USCF. I've unfortunately played Sam 4 times OTB over the last 3 years and am 0-4. :( Maybe by the time we're in High School I'll catch up to him...sigh
Are you his age?
Shadowknight911 wrote:
yes, 7 months older
Then that makes you eleven with over a 2000 USCF rating. Better for your age than anybody else in this thread, and probably on the site, and better than most on here period. :)
No. I'm horrible.
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Shadowknight911 wrote:
I just looked at the Canadian U8 ratings and they suck, top guy is 1260. That doesn't seem right, seems way low. In the US, the top U8 kid, Trung Nguyen, won the US K-3 Elementary School Nationals this weekend and is almost 1900 USCF. I think there are about 15 players U8 who are above 1500 now.
NM Sam Sevian, who is now 11 years old and the top U12 FIDE player in the world at 2247, when he was in 2nd grade was already at 2000 USCF. I've unfortunately played Sam 4 times OTB over the last 3 years and am 0-4. :( Maybe by the time we're in High School I'll catch up to him...sigh
Which rating list did u look at?
On CFC, the top guy is around 1350.
But it still sucks compared to the US kid.
My 6 year old brother who we hired a few world champion coaches for since he was 4 months old is rated almost 2700.
Whob wrote:
My 6 year old brother who we hired a few world champion coaches for since he was 4 months old is rated almost 2700.
HAR HAR HAR.
Shadowknight911 wrote:
no, Jason has a slightly higher rating than I. I'm nowhere near the top for 11 year olds...the top 11 year olds in the US is over 2400 USCF (Jeffery Xiong at 2402 and then Sam Sevian at 2360).
How long have you played?
Interesting.
i'm 26... and don't entertain guys i beat... no wonder, i'm alone ryt now...lol
RJ_Tammuz wrote:
i'm 26... and don't entertain guys i beat... no wonder, i'm alone ryt now...lol
Im hungry.
I play very good chess for a 12-year-old. Unfortunately I'm 41.
No, I'm 26. If I had put work into my chess I could have had a few hundred more points on my rating than I currently do, but I completely lost interest in the game and came back to it in the past couple years.
Eager to prove the 'mental peak at 25' myth wrong though with the tremendous amount of effort I'm putting into the game now.
Yes, but not at chess.
madhacker wrote:
Hmm.. I read somewhere that you are supposed to reach your physical and mental peak at the age of 25. I am soon to turn 28 so I guess it's all downhill from here. And 5 of the top 10 players in the world are younger than me. So I'm not very good for my age then!
Where did you read that at? I'm 32 and just started playing. I don't care how good I am for my age. The only thing I care about is improving by learning Chess at its most fundamental level. Ratings are just an indication of progress. They mean nothing unless unless you want them to. When I become a master in my life, which I am sure I will, then I will know that I finally have a good understanding of the game. I study my ass off so I know the harder I work, the faster I'll improve.
These younger kids...why are they so good??? The reason why they are so good (amongst others), is that they can spend 6-8 h a day on chess everyday if they want. Here in the US they spend like 7h a day in school, go home at 3 and have until whenever to play chess. I used to wake up at 6am before grade school. I could have played 3h before school and at least 5 after if I wanted....but I wasn't in to Chess back then. And homework..lol...I used to spend 1 h a night on HW and I did good in schools, so that's not eating up their time. Then they have summer, winter, spring, Christmas breaks....As adults, we are simply limited by time...not a deterioration of our mental faculties. That happens much later in life.
Remember this...If you love something enough, you will find time, even if its from 4am-7am before work (like me) then come home and work at it for a couple more hours until the weekend comes when you put in 12h a day. That's what you need to do...work hard and you can achieve amazing things. Start playing and studying now and feel great a year later...or mope around and find yourself saying "Boy...if I just would have started when I wanted to last year I could have went from 1100 to 1600 FIDE/USCF"
A grand master in Brooklyn Castle said top GM's study 8h a day on average (thats arguable, but not the point). How good would you get by putting in 4h a night then??? I'd say pretty damn good over the course of 5-10 years.
Now get to work damn it!
Conflagration_Planet wrote:
Yes, but not at chess.
Hmmm...i had the feeling this thread pertains to the "other good" thing at our age.
Hi Denverhigh, I am 73 years old, started playing 4 years ago and my Rating on the Chess Site that I have played on for the last 3 years (not on this Site, that is very low at the moment as I have not been member for long) is l605 at the moment of typing this
I feel happy with this and hope to improve it with the training available to me now on this site.
If I can reach 1800 I shall feel pleased with myself.