U.S. chess champ will visit high school championship
Journal Star
Posted Feb 11, 2009 @ 06:35 AM
PEORIA —
The reigning U.S. chess champion will make a daylong visit to the 35th annual IHSA Chess Team State Tournament this weekend at the Peoria Civic Center.
Grandmaster Yury Shulman, the top-ranked chess player in country, will be at the tournament Saturday conducting seminars for coaches and players. He will also be there to observe the roughly 1,400 chess players from 121 high schools from around the state as they compete.
The two-day competition consisting of seven championship rounds begins at 10 a.m. Friday and runs until 8 p.m. The competition resumes from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The tournament is open to the public.
Source: http://www.pjstar.com
Having been a coach that went there for nine years, the tournament is not open to the public. Only the coaches may observe the games live. The seminars should be totally open though.
And Yury Shulman is not the top-ranked chess player in the US.