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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

I hope you learned some good stuff by going over game 8 in class.
1) Get out of the line of fire of a discovered check
2) Get out of pins
3) Castle early
4) Swing your knights over to the half of the board that the kings are on
5) Rooks belong on open files - challenge your opponent for the ownership of that file.
6) That last combination of Carlsen's trading of the six remaining pieces can be found by altering the order of moves in your mind - a lot of you saw Nf6+, but we had to make 2 other moves first to make that one work!

I can't say the score of the World Chess Championship between the champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the challenger Magnus Carlsen of Norway because some people (Magnus Nordy) is watching it game by game and doesn't want to know, but you can go to www.uschess.org and find out. You can even step through each game and it will move the pieces on the board.. I'd encourage you to do that. 700,000 people in Norway tuned in to watch the match live on TV (and there are only 5 million people in Norway.)

This is a chance to see history in the making. The world chess champioinship has changed hands only 3 times since 1975!
1972-1975 Bobby Fischer
1975-1985 Anatoly Karpov
1985-2000 Garry Kasparov
2000-2007 Vladimir Kramnik
2007-2013 Viswanathan Anand

NEXT TOURNAMENT
Dec. 7, 2013 Metcalf Jr. High Burnsville, Grade Level
Sign up on-line at www.schoolchess.org but don't pay because the school is paying entry fees for this one.
We will discuss at 8:30am Dec 7 if some of you want to play up a grade or two so we have a team..

FHMS By Rating

Last Name	First Name	Rating
Miranda	Thomas	1237
Henry	Mace	873
Sullivan	Frank	792
Priborkin	Anton	674
Nordby	Magnus	592
Phillips	Josh	553
McDermott	Thomas	538
Smith	Lendale	396
Hahnfeldt	Carter	332
Barnard	Joe	321
Johnson	Evan	236
Gotham	Angela	229
Lee	Keighvin	221
Meyer	Oliver	216
Nordby	Annikka	163
Kainz	Andres	150
Metz-Taylor	Grant	121
Church	Ben	117
Lee	Aidan	106
Williams	Brigham	100
Meyer	Misha	1