The Bashkansky family Chess Travel blog


Bashkansky family's Chess Travel blog - parents Guy and Ludmila with children:
NM Ethan and WIM Naomi - World School Chess Champion (Girls Under 13)

Monday, January 23, 2017

Chess, Dance

Chess is a dance within
Phiona Mutesi is a Ugandan chess champion and the subject of the film Queen of Katwe, which Naomi watched recently.  Naturally when Chess4Life CEO Elliott Neff invited chess kids to meet Phiona and her Ugandan chess mates, Naomi was excited to come, and stayed for quads afterwards.  Here are the photos:




Dance

Every half year we're in for a big treat -- Naomi's school dance concert.  It's thermodynamically impossible to be more excited and agitated than the performers and the spectators at these events!  Here, share some:


19:14 Naomi dances "Electric" to the song "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman -- and it's good!  Really good, not just "proud-parent-good".  Check it out: