Besides studying chess and playing in the tournaments, I have often enjoyed spending time promoting chess in local schools and communities.
Foe example, in the last few years, I have been invited to speak and/or give simuls with scholastic players in various loactions in Southern California. I have also taught kids at my age to play. I have always like to see more people especially more kids play chess, because I think chess helps us to improve visualization, think more thoroghly, and handling stress better if we play in tournaments. Of course it is a fun activity. I wished I had studied harder when I was younger just like many top chess kids do, but now it gets harder for me because of school work in the middle school. I hope the other kids, especially the younger ones can devote more time to improve chess when they are still in lower grades.
World Youth Chess Championships 2010 is fast approaching. I wish the best luck to the entire big US Team.
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