US Chess Phenom - IM Ray Robson

IM Ray Robson is an amazing 14 year old chess player from the United States of America. He already has many chess accomplishments, including being the number 1 ranked under 16 chess player in the Americas, and top 10 under 16 players in the world, not to mention his International Master designation.

Just recently at the Arctic Chess Challenge 2009 he achieved his first Grandmaster norm, tying for first overall in the tournament.

Visit my personal web site http://www.jrobichess.com for a variety of free chess resources and training materials.

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[PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing jr!

You Go Ray!

[jrobichess]

Thanks for checking out the vid Phillip!

[Ruxistico]

typical GM underestimation. "Oh, Im playing this kid? Nice, then I don't have to think. I'll just play this trick and he'll loose his que... oh he didn't?!... Well... Then he will fall for this tri... No? This one then...? No... Damn. I lost the game."

[Dylan2146]

Yet another excellent video - when will we see JRobi v. Robson?

[daleinin]

At 13:03 after robson moves Qe2-f3. I think either Rc8-d8 or Rf8-d8 attacking the white rook on the d file. The goal being to remove the defender of the d2 square so that black can mmove Ke4-d2 forking the king and queen.

[sameer090680]

at 12:24 instead of ne3 why didnt he rd7x, he would have got two knights for one rook

[lutzzze]

Have watched your videos since you started... always a pleasure. But i wounder how strong you are? Your rate...

[TheImmortalFlip]

this kid is good. yesterday, he won against finegold..

[bistnenutte]

just a question i was pondering... might be a silly one at that, but isnt just automatically castling sometimes a bad move? i mean, it seems the king is more volnurable in most positions after castilng. i might be wrong tho.. what u think??

[Ruxistico]

@chrism216 Like when Kasparov had to fight for a draw against 13-year-old Magnus Carlsen?

[chrism216]

@Ruxistico

a GM facing someone with an IM title infront of his name will most certainly not underestimate his opponent, even if hes a kid. We all know how fisher wiped out an entire field of GMs at the US championships. GMs know age is no indicator of a player's strength.

[sumosumo888]

@ 15:33, black's Qh5 is more to attack the d1 square to threaten mate than to lure the white rook to attack the black Q. but nice commentary.

[thomasoeler]

awesome!!!!!!!

[dragonheadofthewest]

@AnthonyTheSage that was more then underestimation, he must have smoked dope... thinking putting his queen in the corner was a good move... damn he really must have been high