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Chicago
Tribune Features Chess-Now
Company
founder, Jim Egerton is featured
in an exclusive Chicago Tribune article about
relating chess to the game of tennis.
Lindsay Davenport Appearance
Lindsay Davenport
from the St. Louis Aces tennis team recently helped
the St. Louis Chess Club celebrate its two year anniversay
by playing tennis on a chessboard built in the street
located right outside the club. Founder and President
of the chess club, Rex Sinquefield is an avid tennis
player who brought the celebration together. A block
party was held during the US Women's and US Junior's
chess championship tournament break day which was going
on at the chess club at the time. Participants also
got to see the Davenport versus Anna Kournikova tennis
match during the championships. Shown below is Lindsay
rallying for a point during the fun event, although
playing in a formal dress with shoes on certainly can
cut into any required court coverage.
Photo credit
to ekelly. For complete coverage see link on the
homepage for all the galleries.
Professional
Tennis Registry Symposium
Chess-Now
Founder Jim Egerton Presents at the Professional Tennis
Registry.
CheckMate - Teach Your Players to Build Strategies like
a Chess Game
JIM
EGERTON PTR SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Jim is a certified teacher, trainer and coach with more
than 25 years in corporate training. A PTR Associate
Instructor, he has played competitive tennis for more
than 40 years at the club level. He has also played
competitive chess for more than 40 years attaining a
master/expert level rating from such tournaments as
the US Open. Jim is a professional speaker, holds an
MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology, and has presented
at numerous conferences and training seminars. He is
the founder of Chess-Now Ltd. (www.chess-now.com), a
training organization that uses chess to help clients
practice their strategic thinking. His goal is to share
his chess and tennis knowledge with other PTR members.
Selected
slides from the Presentation at Hilton Head S.C. Feb
14, 2010.
The
advantage of playing on clay.
The
CheckMate Presentation Agenda.
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How
does Game Theory Connect Chess & Tennis?
How
are the Chessboard and the Tennis Court similar geometric
surfaces?
What
are some Strategies for Closing out a Tennis Match?
RESULTS
OF THE STRATEGY,
TACTICS,
TECHNIQUE SURVEY
During
the Checkmate – Teach Your Players to Build
Strategies like a Chess
Game session of the Professional Tennis
Registry Symposium on February 14,
2010, each audience member was asked to participate
in an informal survey.
One
objective of the presentation was to use game theory
and chess game
definitions of strategy, tactics and technique to determine
whether they also
apply to the game of tennis.
Participants
were asked as it relates to tennis for their definition
of strategy;
tactics
and technique. They were then asked for an example of
each definition.
Click
here for the complete results of the survey PTR-Checkmate
Survey.
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