Exeter Chess Club: Chess for Juniors

Material on this site suitable for younger players:
To use this site you need to be able to read chess notation
and sometimes to understand chess symbols.
How to run a junior club {}
As if  know....
Posters for a Junior Club {D}
A selection of posters we have had up at Exeter.
NEW Posters for a Junior Club {D}
A selection of new colourful posters we have had up at Exeter.[PDF]
Essential checkmates {D} (60k)
The basic mating patterns for beginners, and a few special ones from Vukovic.
Solving Tactical Problems {all}
Some advice on spotting tactics (juniors)
10 rules for the opening {D}
The central dogmas of opening theory, and some other complementary notes.
The Ideas behind some Chess openings {D/C}
- that is, the ones the BCF thinks juniors should know a bit about. But please, juniors, adults and anybody else, No more Old Stodge!
Also, about Playing 1.d2-d4 at junior level
- Please don't!
Programmes for beginners
Freeware and shareware programmes for DOS/Windows
An ABC of chess {D}
The basic mental toolkit of chessplayers.
[EXERCISE] Mini Chess Games {D}
for beginning chess players to use as training exercises
[cool_blue_cat] Top 10 tips for Juniors {D} {C}
A long press release, including notes on the Giuoco Pianissimo
A disaster in the Stonewall {D}
Some hard lessons about planning in chess.

Junior chess games with notes and tips

36 Junior games {C/D}
Lessons from a County junior event [2004]
36 More Junior games {C/D}
Lessons from the next County junior event [2005]
Another 36 Junior games {C/D}
Lessons from a recent County junior event [2006]
Yet another 36 Junior games {C/D}
Lessons from a recent County junior event [2007]
Wouldjabelieveit 36 junior games {C/D}
Lessons from a recent County junior event [2008]
Rap my petubulars, 36 junior games! {C/D}
Lessons from a recent County junior event [2009]
Can't stand another 30+ junior games... {C/D}
Lessons from a recent County junior event [2010]
Attacking the castled King {D}
Examples of basic attacking themes and tactics
Lessons from Paul Morphy {D}
The model for attackers of all ages, Morphy shows us how it's done.
General advice on the three phases of the game:
General Opening advice {D} {all?}
General Middlegame advice {D} {all?}
General Endgame advice {D} {all?}
Perhaps, if you don't play much, these three will be difficult to make full use of, but you might want to refer back to them from time to time.
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This document (juniors.html) was last modified on 12 Mar 1998 by [cool blue cat]

Dr. Dave