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Mate in Two

Oliver and Leo had a go at this one, a favourite of mine:

Exeter Juniors 2-3 Torquay Boys' Grammar School

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.

Emailing games from Fritz 5

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:

Updated 'First repertoire' materials

Kevin Hurst has kindly been through the one-stop starter repertoire booklet and found a few errors, mostly small but one was absolutely colossal.

Updated files:
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/ftp/JuniorRepertoire.pdf
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/x/pgn/juniorep.pgn

Junior Openings - Beginners and Improvers

Basic Opening Repertoire for young players

You want a standard opening to learn? Here is my suggestion:

System for White Scotch Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exe4 4.Bc4

When Black avoids your main system IQP systems 1.e4 c5 2.c3 & d4

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.c4

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4

System for Black against 1.e4 French Defence 1.e4 e6

System for Black against 1.d4 Tarrasch Defence 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5

EJCC 2-2 Newton Abbot Juniors 16th Dec 2011

One of the best and best-contested matches I've had the pleasure to watch. Well done to all players!

W Royle ½-½ Fraser B Trott ½-½ Whitehead W Keat 1-0 Ramesh B Terrill 0-1 Chornenkyy

A tough game fought in the jungles of a hypermodern opening, in the end Black's exchange was enough to balance an advanced passed pawn - or maybe the other way around!

Christmas Card puzzle 2011

What do I do with my old score sheets?

version:

Enter the games on the computer and do something with them, like find other games with the same opening, or get a computer to suggest better moves. In Windows XP, you can do all that for free using Fritz 5.32.

List of free software for Windows: http://freechess.50webs.com/index.html
List of software for Macs:

Nagy-Keen, Friendly, 18 Oct 2011

[Event "Friendly"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2011.10.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Nagy, Dan"]
[Black "Keen, Charlie"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[PlyCount "62"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 ({Well, I thought you were planning to play} 3. f4
$1) 3... e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 {This may not be a bad result, I know Charlie
has been looking to play systems with ...e5 not ...e6.} 5... Bc5 6. Be3 (6. Nb3
$5 {is logical and may give a slight plus} 6... Bb4 7. Be2 (7. Bd2)) (6. Ndb5

There's a row going on, down near Slough

Trefor Thynne organised the first U18 team for a number of years to play in the English County Junior Championships at the end of the Summer Term. The match was held at Eton College.

Story and games appended.

Many thanks to Trefor for organising and to Robert Thompson for his notes to the games.

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"Games like this [Penrose-Botvinnik] (and there were plenty in this tournament) impressed on me that 'wanting to win' was perhaps more important than 'playing good moves'."

KEENE, 'Becoming a Grandmaster'.

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Mate in Two

Exeter Juniors 2-3 Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Emailing games from Fritz 5

Updated 'First repertoire' materials

Junior Openings - Beginners and Improvers

EJCC 2-2 Newton Abbot Juniors 16th Dec 2011

Christmas Card puzzle 2011

What do I do with my old score sheets?

What do I do with my old score sheets?

Nagy-Keen, Friendly, 18 Oct 2011

There's a row going on, down near Slough

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