John does not recommend the French Defense to his beginning students, because it can get very complex.Īt 41 minutes into the podcast interview, John highlighted his quest for attaining a master rating. John and Evan discussed teaching chess, particularly teaching online during the pandemic. On June 6, John was interviewed by Evan Rabin, CEO of Premier Chess, who I wrote about on SparkChess. John Hendrick’s company is Foundation Chess. This last part is actually why I believe he will make National Master: he loves the game, and sharing his passion with others drives him to further understand the game.” John Hendrick, 2019 Bartholomew emailed, “I’ve only been coaching John for a few months, but I’ve been impressed by his commitment to improving all aspects of his game, his dedication to playing longer time controls with corresponding analysis, his thoroughness in completing assigned homework, and his interest in helping his own students and viewers of his Twitch channel. To improve his chances to make master, John is taking chess lessons from International Master John Bartholomew. He hopes to reach a master rating (2200 or higher) before he turns 41 in September. John is US Chess-rated 2176 and is 40 years old. They have a daughter, Gwen, who turns 6 at the end of July. In 2010, John married Dani, a schoolteacher. Jim Liptrap emailed, “Alexey was ‘Head Master’ at most of my Klein Chess Camps from 2001 to 2011, and was always able to bring in talented young teachers, and to mentor them to become even better teachers. Among those were Heather in 2006 and John in 2007, although John and Alexey had also taught at my first camp in 1995. All three were a pleasure to work with, and fine teachers.” Jim maintains a website, which is particularly helpful for Houston, Texas chess players.
Clarissa Root (age 2) and John Hendrick (age 15) July 30, 1995 I contacted Jim for a quote for this article. Jim Liptrap hired us and was the founder and director of Klein Chess Camp. John taught chess all day, his first time working as a chess teacher. To spend every afternoon with Clarissa, I taught chess in the mornings only during the camp week (July 31-August 4). At a McDonald’s play area on the way from Austin to the Klein Chess Camp (near Houston), I took a photo of my two-year-old daughter Clarissa and John. I love fianchettoing, and may have passed on my passion for putting bishops on long diagonals to my students.Īt the end of July in 1995, I gave John (then 15 years old) a ride to the Klein Chess Camp. Notice that both John and Heather fianchettoed their bishops. I also have inserted Heather’s annotations, taken from the Austin Chess News.Īfter John analyzed on June 2, 2020, he told me that the mystery game reminded him of a draw he had with Heather years ago. However, I found a crafty way to ask John for that game analysis! When John and I chatted recently over Facebook, I asked him to analyze a mystery chess game as if both players were his chess students. In 1995, John escaped analyzing the Hendrick-Flewelling game for me. Alex Rudolph, Heather Flewelling, Sidik Isani My cousin, Alex Rudolph (Director of Cal-Bridge), Heather, and Sidik attended the American Astronomical Society meeting in 2017 in Grapevine, Texas, where I took this photo of them.
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Heather is engaged to Sidik Isani, a software engineer at Canada France Hawaii Telescope. She enjoys ham radio her callsign is AH7RF. Heather is the architect and builder of the world’s largest astronomy database. I was honored that she mentioned me as a role model in that article. In October of 2014, Heather was featured in Chess Life magazine. She sent her notes to the Austin Chess News, which published the game on April 28, 1995. During my next private lesson with Heather, we annotated the game. On March 26, 1995, John Hendrick and Heather Flewelling were paired in the last round of the Texas Junior Championship. Heather became an astrophysicist and John became a chess teacher. Two of my private students were Heather Flewelling and John Hendrick. When I lived in Austin, Texas, from 1992 to 1996, I taught group chess classes and private chess lessons.
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