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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin
Let's say his son was 6 yrs old as a kindergartener and is now 9 years old.
Top 100 list for 9 years old:
#100 is rated 1323.
For his son to be K-national champ and not even be rated 1323 three years later, in addition to the father being 1900 USCF himself.. doesn't really add up.
If this is the truth (maybe he's bs-ing about the K-national champ.) then the kid probably does Not like to play chess and is being forced into it.
Dude you don't want to be some guy because he is 1900. Just be you and be awesome.
"Kindergarten National Champion" is a term that isn't so clearly defined, there's a couple different events you could win and claim that title.
Last year's winner of one of those events was rated 860 going into the tourney, before scoring a perfect 7/7 to win the K-1 field. Impressive result, and his rating jumped to 1145 afterward. Since then he's played three tourneys, scoring 0.5/4 in a regular adult G/60 event (with a draw against his 1313 rated older brother), then scoring 0/1 in a scholastic event where he lost to a 938 provisional rating and withdrew, then scoring 1/5 in another scholastic event. He's now rated 1030. Of course he's still only six, and if he sticks with the game and continues working I'm sure he can easily get above 1323 by the time he's nine, but who knows if that will happen or not? Add in the fact that people can be rather unspecific with the word "few" and we may be looking at a kid who is 11 or 12 now, and there's nothing weird at all about someone that age no longer being on the top-100 list, despite winning a national event in kindergarten.