5335 young people traveled to Nashville, TN to play in the fifth edition of SuperNationals, making it the biggest rated chess tournament in history. The US Chess Scoop spoke to a wide range of participants including the High School Champion, Atulya Shetty, captain of the High School Championship team Edward R Murrow Aleksander Ostrovskiy, and members of the K-8 Championship team, Masterman. We also talked to Pobo Efekoro and Rochelle Ballantyne from the documentary Brooklyn Castle and a budding film-maker. Anjana Murali talked about her camps to promote chess and FM Elliott Liu about game analysis for chess.com.
The Scoop on the SuperNationals, The Biggest Chess Tournament Ever
Wow, I look the same as I did 8 years ago… I wonder who I was on the phone with… How did I not notice Jennifer Shahade doing an interview next to me? My game must have really put me in a trance.
Excellent video! *shared*
Watch out for the Tricky Knights!!
1:25 I wanna challenge her 😮
you have to use your brain and it helps you think and stuff
I could probably give a simul to all these kids and win every game. They sound like a bunch of weakies.
you could literally smell the assburgers in that place
Luke Harmon
(kid that took second) has a rating of around 2400…
Just as an FYI when that one guy castled he did it wrong there is suppose to be one spot next to the king open so
P=pawn
K=king
R=rook
S=space
PPP
RKS
I was there