I’m in St. Louis for the the US Chess School. In case anyone doesn’t know, the U.S. Chess School is an organization that I founded in which some of the top young chessplayers in the country come to a central location to get training from a top level GM (and myself!). We have a sponsor as well in Dr. Jim Roberts.
This is our tenth school, and it’s our first ever all-girls school. It’s going pretty well but the bad news is due to attending the UFC 2 days before leaving, I’ve somehow completely lost my voice. On the first day I had no voice, and it came back a bit on the 2nd day and so I tried to lecture. It worked for 2 hours and then I lost it again! So now for 3 days I’ve basically had no voice yet tons of things I want to say!!!! Fortunately Gregory Kaidanov is a very good trainer so it’s not the end of the world.
Anyway in a few days I’ll announce the charity for August 09.
