On Tuesday March 20, the Queen City Chess Club had a very special last minute event…India’s national youth chess coach, FM Visweswaran Kameswaran, stopped by for a presentation to a packed house of about 60 chess enthusiasts.
FM Kameswaran (I will call him Vishy for the remainder of this blog post) is a very strong player, with a couple of legs on the IM norm. Much more importantly from our point of view is his official status as “FIDE Trainer” and is as stated in the title of this piece the official youth chess coach of India.
The Business of Chess
It’s been an interesting and eventful five years since I reluctantly stepped up from the ranks of “chess player” into the role of “chess organizer” ( I certainly have a hard time calling myself a chess player any more…have you seen my results lately?!?
). As is usually the case when a person steps up into a more visible role, he opens himself up to public opinion. I sense that in my case the vast majority of those opinions about me and what I have been involved in accomplishing are favorable. Of course there is always a detractor or two. That’s OK, detractors provide the opportunity to expound on the positive message and reinforce it. They also tend to give the reader an easy comparison as to what “the other side” would be like. Generally that will greatly assist me in making my case.
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