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From Harlem to Grandmaster Goals with IM Kassa Korley

The Chess Experience

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How I Become a National Master at 15

The extent of your chess tournament experience for many years is actually playing this free tournament in New York called the right move. And you actually, if you look at my player page, you'll find that I actually gained rating almost every tournament of the right move I played. It just wasn't enough volume. My grandma actually for like a birthday present every other year would fund and come and fund my trip and accompany me to the nationals. So basically, I just didn't get enough volume of experience,. But I did have like this kind of prerequisite ability, I guess you could say.

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