…and you should have at least one reply.
And now two
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I received your message but responded here.
Happy Holidays everyone! Im interested in starting a group tourney (A, B, C, and D) next month. The Big Actuarial Tourney is still going on, but I am hoping most of the games will be done by next month. If we waited until all the games were over, we’d have to wait until well into next year.
If you are interested, please either like this post/PM me either here or chess dot com, etc. Thanks!
Players from the last tiered tourney:
staples13
Blampman
Minnesotah
acroyogagenie (in)
Seasplash (in)
@MayanActuary
@JonasChess
elai4203
@justrick6 (in)
ellllliottttttt
@AbstractActuary (in)
@Macroman
@akial or @al_aki
@1695814 (in)
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Hi everyone! I just created the group tournaments. You can access them here:
Group A:
Group B:
Group C:
Group D:
The only way you can join is via invite only. I’ve sent out invites to some people but not everyone.
AveMaria77
crinttae
@J0EBL0W
@Rekrap
@Potato
@ALivelySedative (in)
Gustavs_Demise
@Italian_Halibut
@Eagles
@sethascope
@randolphdupree33
@BruteForce
@Bro
GibbonPJ
Continuing on next post…
@CuriousGeorge
edalSS
@CanNeverWearWhite
Other people who haven’t participated in the recent tiered tourney:
@procrastinator
@IPD
@LususNaturae
@tospeke
I’d like to be included. “thtevie” on chess.com.
Oh! just saw the invitation. I’m good! looking forward to my very mediocre play and seeing ratings like “68% accuracy” from the game reviews!
I’m going to have to skip this round, sorry!
in related news, I’ve started playing Rapid (10 minutes / size) games, one a day, to just get more practice. i’ve won the last 2! First one by time-out with winning material, the second one through resignation, after my opponent slipped up and blundered a rook in an otherwise fairly equal game.
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I am interested aamueller - Chess Profile - Chess.com
Thanks! I will add you soon. @Bro could you also join the tournament as well? Im trying to fill Group C and D up.
In other news, Im proud to say the Actuarial Chess Club recently broke the 50 membership mark. A few days ago we are at 41 members, but I believe we are at 55. I am assuming a lot of them came from the Reddit post on r/actuary. We even have an NM who joined and will be participating in the next tourney.
I dont know how much traction this would get, but I may be interested in having unrated live tourney/blitz matches where members can play among other members, and people would be eligible for medals. Something I’ll think about.
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Chess year in review- ended with my highest rating yet, played a higher rated batch than normal, more than doubled my lifetime draws, and beat my first NM OTB.
2023
Rating start: 1772
Rating end: 1867
| Rating Range | Wins | Draws | Losses | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000-1200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA |
| 1200-1400 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| 1400-1600 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 83% |
| 1600-1800 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75% |
| 1800-2000 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 50% |
| 2000-2200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% |
| 2200-2400 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 25% |
| Total | 10 | 5 | 8 | 54% |
Lifetime stats
| Rating Range | Wins | Draws | Losses | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000-1200 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100% |
| 1200-1400 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 73% |
| 1400-1600 | 24 | 2 | 8 | 74% |
| 1600-1800 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 70% |
| 1800-2000 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 27% |
| 2000-2200 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40% |
| 2200-2400 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 25% |
| Total | 65 | 8 | 34 | 64% |
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That’s impressive. Assuming you end up reaching Expert (2000 USCF), will you try to put in the effort/studying to become NM? Or is that not realistic at this point…
Getting to 2000 is the goal, that feels attainable but hard. But I’m definitely not as sure about hitting that as your assumption sounds lol.
2200 I don’t think I could get to without getting a coach, and that’s not currently in the plans. The NMs are quite a big step up from the experts, especially the 2300s, those guys are insanely good.
I’ll let you farm me for rating points. Look at Alireza, it seems to be the cool thing to do nowadays 
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Maybe we can draw the last one to make it look legit
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8-year-old prodigy Ashwath Kaushik makes history after beating chess grandmaster
By Ben Church, CNN
Published 6:54 AM EST, Tue February 20, 2024
Carleton Lim/Singapore Chess Federation
Ashwath Kaushik became the youngest player to beat a chess grandmaster during a classical tournament.
CNN —
Look out, there’s another chess prodigy on the scene.
At eight years, six months and 11 days, Ashwath Kaushik made history on Sunday by becoming the youngest player ever to beat a chess grandmaster in a classical tournament game.
The youngster, who lives in Singapore, achieved the feat after beating Poland’s Jacek Stopa, 37, in round four of the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open in Switzerland.
The previous record was only just set last month by then eight-year-old Leonid Ivanovic – who became the first player under the age of nine to beat a grandmaster in a classical game – but Ashwath was five months younger than the Serbian when he beat Stopa, according to Chess.com.
“It felt really exciting and amazing, and I felt proud of my game and how I played, especially since I was worse at one point but managed to come back from that,” Kaushik told Chess.com after beating Stopa.
Born in India in 2015, Ashwath has already made a name for himself after winning a number of youth tournaments around the world – notably becoming the World Under-8 Rapid champion in 2022, per Chess.com.
Carleton Lim/Singapore Chess Federation
Ashwath has earned the attention of some of the chess world’s biggest names like Anish Giri.
He finished 12th in this week’s tournament in Switzerland and plenty is expected of the youngster as he continues to compete against opponents with decades more experience.
In an interview with Chess.com, Ashwath’s father said neither he or his wife have a history of playing chess and it was a surprise to see his son, who he says practices around seven hours a day, become such a talented player.
“It’s surreal as there isn’t really any sports tradition in our families. Every day is a new discovery, and we sometimes stumble in search of the right pathway for him,” his father, Kaushik Sriram, told Chess.com.
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If you love variants, try playing Drawback chess.
Right now you can only play 3 minute speed chess games:
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