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Exeter Juniors 2-3 Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Submitted by EJCC on Wed, 29/02/2012 - 11:41

A well-fought match which could have gone either way, with lots of good ideas shown by the players. I think in most games the advantage changed hands a couple of times - exciting stuff!

I've added the PGN file so you can play through the games and variations on your own computer.

[pgn autoplaymode=none]
[Event "EJCC vs TBGS"]
[Site "Palm Handheld"]
[Date "2012.02.24"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Trott, Tomas"]
[Black "Worsley, Elliott"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[PlyCount "45"]

{White's home-made opening was good enough to get into a fair fight, and both

"Chess is the sixty-four square question":
In Music = hemidemisemiquaver = sixty-fourth note.

Rafa Rodino, 23/08/86

Emailing games from Fritz 5

Submitted by DrDave on Sat, 25/02/2012 - 11:48

There is a free version of ChessBase's Fritz programme available:

http://freechess.50webs.com/fritz.html

Once you have saved one or a bunch of games, you might want to send them to someone. This is how:

1996: Winners

Submitted by DrDave on Sun, 12/02/2012 - 23:01
Messrs. Simon Greely, Andy Pickering, Chris Bellers, Dave Regis and Sean Pope celebrate their victory in the 1996 National Major Club Plate (U175).

Chess Quotes

On advanced ideas:
"After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense, many players will have a vague idea of what you are talking about but nothing more. Even a fragmented understanding of these concepts will prove useful though, and eventually they will improve as these lessons are assimilated by repetition and example."
— Jeremy SILMAN, The Amateur's Mind, 1995

 cf.:

"We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development. ... (The "spiral curriculum") ... Is it not possible ... to introduce them to some of the major ... ideas earlier, in a spirit perhaps less exact and more intuitive?"