Sept 27, 2017

Someone left a nice bright red and black sweatshirt at chess last week.
No one picked it up this week, so I put it in the Lost & Found.

Today we were introduced to the gambit using the King's gambit.
We had a worksheet on checkmate and stalemate.
Also we learned how to checkmate with 2 rooks or with a King and Queen.

Name	Sep 27
Henry	711
Miles	629
Isaiah	625
Luke	577
Niko	522
Jaden	511
Torben	463
Jack	365
Owen	190
Nolan	154
Tom	147
Naomi	141
Ben	126
Patrick	124
Derrick	117
Isaac	116
Jesse	116
Quinn	113
Davis	111
Gere	111
Tyler	110
Zach	107
Winston	100
James	100
Sahasra	100
Nick	100

Sep 20 Chess Club

We had a good turnnout.
We covered a lot of territory today - Giuocco Piano opening variants.
We learned the 3 objectives in the opening
1) attack the middle
2) get knights and bishops out of the back row
3) castle

Henry	686
Miles	629
Isaiah	599
Niko	555
Luke	547
Jaden	498
Torben	470
Jack	378
Tom	143
Winston	105
Owen	105
Patrick	105
Isaac	105
Tyler	105
Zach	105
Derrick	105
Quinn	105
Davis	105
Naomi	105
Jesse	105
Nolan	105
James	105
Sahasra	105
Lilly	100

Chess Club 2017-2018

Chess Club will meet after school on Wednesdays starting Sept 20 3:25 until 5:00 in room 123.

If you'd like to compete in tournaments there are a lot of tournaments for children, based on grade, run by the School Chess Association. There's a link to the right with a full schedule for the year. Tournaments are on Saturdays (8:30 - approx. 2:30) and often held at Metcalf Middle School in Burnsville and cost about $20. As the year progresses I'll select some tournaments that we'll attend as a team

If, for any reason, you don't want your child's name appearing on this blog, please let me know and we'll get a code name for him/her.