The Chess Revolution | Rob Hatchett | TEDxChattanooga

Rob Hatchett met his wife on a blind date and made sure she knew that first night that he was unfortunately not the captain of the football team in high school, but rather captain of the chess team! Local trucking executive Rob Hatchett will take us on a journey through the positive impacts the game of chess can have on kids as well as the growing footprint the game is having here in Chattanooga. Rob went into real estate right out of college. His wife and he met on a blind bate in 2007 where he told her on their first date that he wasn't the captain of the football team in high school, but was instead captain of the chess team. They were married 11 months later. In 2013, her family asked Rob to join the family trucking business so he left real estate and entered trucking as Vice-President of Covenant Transport. In February 2019, he left the family business and started a recruiting agency (SeatMyTrucks) focused on the trucking industry. Through all his successes, it's been easy to tell people the story of how the strategies he learned in chess set him up to be successful in business. This is the same story he is now seeing in kids today that he is teaching this game to. While he loves business and advertising and strategy and marketing, his true passion comes from empowering the next generation to succeed in the same way, and chess is a key part to accomplishing that. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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