Rita Atkins, Partner Coach: Teaching children who differ in age and chess ability
I am coaching chess in various schools in and around Cambridge UK. As I used to be a competitive chess player myself, getting hold of teaching materials has never really been a problem for me. Add in a projector and a laptop with Chessbase installed and I was ready to go in any classroom. I was not actively looking for new teaching aids so how come I fell in love with the online tutor LearningChess.net?
INTER UNIVERSITY CHESS TOURNAMENT IN MELBOURNE
A chess tournament between universities has not taken place in Australia in over a decade, but with the help of sponsors and enthusiastic work of the organizers the chess clocks have started in Melbourne recently. We can only earnestly thank LearningChess.net for helping make it happen!
Report from Louka Ewington-Pitsos, Melbourne, Australia
PARTNER SCHOOL: SUMMER CAMP IN ATHENS
From: Manos Alachouzos, Athens, Greece
65 LearningChess.net students
It is always a challenge when faced with a class of learners all keen to hone their chess skills or to learn the game of chess, to come up with activities that engage them and at the same time cater to their varying ability levels…
CHESS TALENTS – BENJI, A SPORTSMAN FROM HUNGARY
We introduce Benjamin Gledura (16), from Eger, Hungary in our chess talents series. Benji is a real sportsman who was a ranking leader national swimming champion, winner of the Hungarian youth chess championship five times, European youth champion three times, silver medal winner in the world youth championship and chess Olympiad. The American Bloomberg Magazine voted him in among the 50 most talented children in the world.
PARTNER SCHOOL: INSTITUTION NOTRE DAME, VALENCE, FRANCE
We will introduce you one of our partner schools time-to-time to give you ideas about scholastic chess through working examples. Institution Notre Dame, in Valence, France was one of the early birds in our Free for Schools Program started in September 2014.
CHESS CURIOSITIES – THE SHOVER OF GOLD
Only one game is known in chess history when after the winning move a ‘shower of gold’ was thrown on the chessboard. Let’s see how all this happened.
Alex Krstulovic, chess prodigy from Hungary
We introduce Alex Krstulovic, a young chess prodigy from Hungary. We will analyze one of his best intuitive combinations and then you can read Alex’s short bio. Recognized coaches work together with Alex, but he liked LearningChess.net and already solved each lesson.
Jerguš, šachový talent zo Slovenska
V tejto novovytvorenej sekcii Vám predstavujeme Jerguša Pecháča, jeden z najväčších šachových talentov na Slovensku. Môžete si prečítať o Jergušovej doterajšej šachovej kariére, jeho vzťahu k šachu, alebo si pozrieť mnoho jeho partií na videu.
Je pravda, že šach robí deti bystrejšími?
Som veľmi rád, že vyučovanie šachu v škôlkach a školách je stále viac rozšírené, napriek tomu si stále veľa ľudí kladie túto otázku. Pozrime sa, čo je na tom pravdy. Pred vytvorením tohto vyučovacieho šachového programu sme detailne skúmali tento problém a preštudovali súvisiace vedecké štúdie, ktoré sú už, našťastie, dostupné pre
CHESS CURIOSITIES – MONUMENTAL HUMAN CHESS
Our Illustrated Chess History series was very welcome. Unfortunately, we had to leave out a lot from the certain parts, because it would have been too long for anyone to read it through. But I decided on starting a similar series named Chess Curiosities, in which I will try to gather the most interesting chess related happenings. Receive the first part tenderly.
