PRODIGY ALERT: This 19-Year Old Chess Star And Linebacker Interned At Fortress As A Junior In Highschool
He’s a chess prodigy with a 2565 ELO ranking, which is even better than Patrick Wolff‘s, the former Clarium fund manager who started a hedge fund based on his chess abilities (called Grand Master Capital).
Wolff’s ELO, his “batting average,” is 2564, one point lower than Hess’. Both are top scores. There’s technically no “best” ELO rating, but if you’re in the 2700s, you’re among the best in the world. (Hess’s ranking is #358 in the world.)
Topping it all off, he’s a linebacker at Stuyvesant High School, the Brooklyn-based charter school for gifted kids (he attacks the field like he attacks the chess board: “You’re looking through the offensive line, the pawns, the line of defense,” he says).
And he’s already got a good internship under his belt: he interned at Fortress last year, as just a junior in high school.
More here: http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-hess-2011-4
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Why haven’t his parents called him Charles instead – Charles Hess. C.Hess.
He is sort of a creepy looking fellow…
at the risk of hi-jacking this post, i’d like to make a correction to the article. the article states, “Topping it all off, he’s a linebacker at Stuyvesant High School, the Brooklyn-based charter school for gifted kids.” stuyvesant high school has never been in brooklyn and is not a charter school. it has always been in manhattan and has been around since 1904. it’s a public high school, however, you have to take an sat-like test to get in.
Both his parents are C.Hess
This article is inaccurate.
Stuyvesant HS (in Manhattan) is a specialized high school requiring an exam(SHSAT).
Robert played football in 9th and 10th grades.
Better photos of Robert this was made to fit the Daily News article in “07
Check out the correct information at
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-21/yale-bound-hess-seeks-to-capture-u-s-chess-title-as-wall-street-beckons.html