Chess in New York City
No, we're not talking about the G-Star thing on the 10th. This is about Channel Thirteen in New York who interviewed the founder and owner of NYC Chess, Russ Makofsky, for its weekly series, “New York on the Clock.” The channel thought we might be interested in sharing the short video with our audience, and... why not.The video shows Russ Makofsky, a life-long chess player who teaches children and adults the basics and finer points of the Royal Game for Chess NYC in the heart of New York's chess community, Greenwich Village. Although the name Makofsky won't share the renown of Kasparov, Fischer, or Spassky, Russ says you don't have to be a Grandmaster to make your mark as a great teacher.At some point Russ gets a bit over-excited, expressing exaggerations like "New York is the most famous chess city" and "all the US Grandmasters live in New York," but we'll forgive him. :-)[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"226","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","height":"349","width":"580","style":""}}]]New York on the Clock is a series profiling the New Yorkers who make the city work. It’s a production of Thirteen.org.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms.
Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools.
Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013.
As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
In October, Peter's first book The Chess Revolution will be published!
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