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DECEMBER 2006 KUDOS I would like to thank NM Michael Aigner for bringing to my attention, through his posting on the CalChess Forum of what he titles "Prodigy Report," the phenomenal accomplishment of the young man who is the recipient of my Kudos this month-Ojas Chinchwadkar. Ojas, a sixth grader at Forest Park Elementary School (Fremont) won the Jim Hurt Amateur tournament (U 1800) in San Francisco the weekend of December 16 & 17. NM Aigner wrote: "In six games, Ojas faced two 1700s, three 1600s and a high 1500. He scored four wins and one draw against merely a single defeat. Four of his six opponents were juniors, all likely underrated themselves. For this performance, Ojas gained an unheard of 242 USCF rating points, from 1308 to 1550. I dare someone to beat that!" I have known Ojas since he was in first grade. His Dad brought him to my class at Newark Community Center. I could see he had chess smarts, but what I liked about him most was the constant smile and how polite he always was. He had a close friend, also a good chess player and a happy kid, Dilip Shekhar. They were like twins even though they looked nothing alike. I left the Newark program when I left Success Chess two years ago. So I was thrilled when I read about Ojas amazing accomplishment and immediate sent a congratulatory e-mail to Ojas and his family with my Kudos. His Dad wrote back: "I knew that you're going to be very happy about his success. Your e-mail means a lot for him as well as me. Once again thanks for your encouragement. After the tournament, I did remember his first day in your class in Mar 2001:-). Rgds, Gajanan" I look forward to the further successes of Ojas Chinchwadkar. JULY 2006 KUDOS My July Kudos go to Kyle Shin. Kyle is heading into third grade at the Friends School in San Francisco. At this writing the eight year old has a posted rating of 1672. I write at this writing as he competes in almost every tournament available and has risen 400 points in four months. Obviously, a lot of his success, besides talent, goes to his basic fundamental training in an Academic Chess program, his tutelage under Liina Vark and Eric Hicks, his training partner the amazing Nicholas Nip and his chess study routine of four hours each day. Kyle now competes primarily in adult tournaments and has won money in three out of the last four. He actually got expert performance in two of these events. Kyle won first place in his section in each of these 3 tournaments: Bagby Memorial (mechanics), Sacramento Championship, EBCC June Swiss. As his coach, Eric Hicks, writes: "Kyle is proof that hard work (mixed with amazing talent) pays off. Besides my Kudos I often provide some predictions. I predict that in a few months Kyle will be follwing his training partner's lead and appear as number one on the national top 100 list for his age group.I believe the only other time we had two Northern California players on top of their respective age groups was about 15 years ago with Vinay Bhat and Jordy Mont-Reynaud both of whom became National Masters at age 10 1/2.

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