Alight with New Passion

Three classrooms of students. Two gatherings of friends. One. Hundred. People. That's the number of people I was challenged to teach chess to within a year. I was at the closing ceremony of the Haring National Tournament of Girls State Champions. The Haring runs concurrently with the Irwin (Senior), the Denker…

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Never Celebrate Too Early

What have I done? Recently I played in the challenger’s section of the state invitational, which is below the championship section. Being invited to the championship section has been a goal for me since last year, but I missed it by a hair. Since I was expecting to play in the…

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Left Foot, Right Foot

Zoey Tang's US Girls Junior Championship Experience "Focus on the step ahead of you, not the whole staircase" ~Unknown This was the quote running through my head when I scanned the email for the umpteenth time, not believing the words. Every small step I had taken, every hour I had invested…

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