What is black's best move here? This position was taken from a blitz game that I played today on chess.com.
Comment below!
I got invited to play in the first FIDE 2021 World Corporate Chess Championship.
After three rounds, my team (Twitter) has 1.5 out of 3 points. Tomorrow is the next three rounds.
After three rounds, my team has 1.5 out of 3 points. Tomorrow is the next three rounds. Here's my team's standings: https://chess-results.com/tnr549696.aspx?lan=1&art=20&flag=30&snr=7
Come watch me and my teammates LIVE tomorrow for the last three rounds at https://www.chess.com/events/2021-fide-online-world-corporate-chess-championship-west-b
at 5:30pm PST.
In the third round, I managed to beat a Woman FIDE Master from Argentina.
In this blog post, I would like to talk about an inspirational chess person, WIM Alexey Root. For your info, 'WIM' stands for Woman International Master. She is the 1989 US Women's Chess Champion and also teaches chess classes at The Univeristy of Texas at Dallas. She has done a lot for the chess community, including editing my "Queen for a Day: The Girl's Guide To Chess Mastery" book. I am very fortunate that she edited my book. In fact, Alexey has written seven chess books herself, available on Amazon.com.
Here are the names of all seven of her books:
1) Read, Write, Checkmate: Enrich Literacy with Chess Activities
2) Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators
3) The Living Chess Game: The Fine Arts Activities for Kids 9-14
4) Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14
5) People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with Chess
6) Prepare With Chess Strategy
7) Science, Math, Checkmate: 32 Chess Activities for Inquiry and Problem Solving
If you know any other inspirational chess people you want me to write about, please let me know!
My three teammates and I WON THE 2021 US Amateur's West TEAM CHESS TOURNAMENT YESTERDAY!!! We were the #1 seed in the Under 1800 section. There was 40 teams in our section. After two long days of playing six rounds, WE WON THE TOURNAMENT with 5 out of 6 points. I played on board one. Five of my opponents were rated above 1800, which means tough opponents. In one of the rounds, I drew against a National Master rated 2331.
Our team name was called, "100% Lady Chess moves".
Even though chess is a male dominated game, LADIES AND WOMEN PLAY CHESS WELL!!
Hi everybody! I'm looking for somebody to help me out with sales on my website. If you are interested and qualified for my job opportunity, please let me know.
Below is my job description. I look forward to hearing from you!
Job Description: Freelance Social Media Engagement Specialist
Employer: Chess By Lauren/Lauren Goodkind
About Lauren
I’m a well-established chess teacher and chess book author based in the San Francisco bay area. I teach one-on-one chess to adults and children at beginner and intermediate levels through in-person and virtual mediums. I also offer virtual workshops and have a YouTube chess channel (Chess By Lauren). I have published chess books, puzzles and video chess course that are endorsed by top chess professionals and chess champions and available through my website below.
https://www.chessbylauren.com/services
I have been featured on Chessbase, US Chess Federation, Ladies Knight podcast, In Menlo newspaper, SparkChess, Almanac newspaper. Find links below.
https://en.chessbase.com/post/queen-for-a-day-an-interview-of-lauren-goodkind
https://new.uschess.org/news/ladies-knight-guest-lauren-goodkind-podcast
https://ladiesknight.org/2020/08/ladies-knight-with-jen-shahade-featuring-lauren-goodkind-lk020/
https://inmenlo.com/2020/04/10/lauren-goodkinds-new-book-offers-girls-a-path-to-chess-mastery/
https://www.sparkchess.com/win-a-chess-book-from-lauren-goodkind.html
https://almanacnews.com/news/2017/07/12/feature-lauren-goodkind-plays-teaches-and-writes-about-chess
Summary
My mission is to entice more people, adults, kids and especially girls and women to learn and play chess. To fulfill this mission I strive to make the game of chess widely accessible and easy to learn via a personalized experience.
I am looking for a Social Media search savvy person to work on a freelance basis to engage on social media and promote my books, my puzzle service and Udemy chess course, sign up for my one-on-one chess lessons and attract people to my website and generate sales of the products offered.
* To be clear, you will not be creating content for my brand to get sales.
Your focus will be to create awareness of my products and services by leveraging social media marketing channels and providing responsive engagement with the core audience.
If you are someone who is available to work on a freelance basis, is committed to my mission and excited to help create this engagement within the community, please send your proposal with costs and turnaround time to generate a positive return at XXX.
Job Responsibilities
https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion
https://www.chessclub.com/forums/viewforum/5/
Qualifications Required
Payment terms
Discussed during the proposal selection conversation
I'm giving a virtual chess workshop hosted by the San Mateo public library on Monday, January 11 from 6-7pm, PST.
If you or if you know anybody who is interested, I invite you to attend: https://smplibrary.as.me/chessworkshop
I will be discussing my two chess books "Queen For a Day: The Girl's Guide to Chess Mastery" and "50 Poison Pieces" (available on Amazon). I will also reveal winning strategies to improve your chess skills.
I wish everyone a happy holiday and a happy new year in 2021. Earlier this year, I published my "Queen For A Day: The Girl's Guide To Chess Mastery" book on Amazon.com. I highly recommend buying this book for beginners. I wrote this book to inspire more girls and women to play chess. Do you need more inspiration to play chess? If so, I encourage you to watch the "Queen's Gambit" TV show on Netflix. I saw all episodes and I liked it! Beth, who is the main character in the "Queen's Gambit" learns chess from a janitor. Beth becomes a chess prodigy.
You are invited to come to the San Francisco Mechanics Institute Chess Club social today!
I’m going to be a special guest.
Come join at noon PST: Come watch here: twitch.tv/mechanicschess
Hope all is well!
Cheers,
Lauren
Today at 4:45pm (California time), I’ll be representing the San Francisco Mechanics Institute Chess Club in an online match against the Marshall Chess Club in New York City, St. Louis Chess Club, and Charlotte Chess Club.
The link to watch the games live is: https://new.uschess.org/news/four-corner-inter-club-battle-thursday/
I’ll also be creating a screencast video for my YouTube chess channel too.
-Lauren
