Reports to AGM (Coaching, Juniors)

Coaching

With just one room available these days, I have offered group coaching
sessions only during the Summer when no matches or individual
competitions will be going on.

This year, as usual, we discussed a series of topics suggested by
members, including an Opening Workshop, Creating and Exchanging strong
pieces, Making and Meeting Threats, and Endgame Elements. New material
on the London System, Caro-Kann and Budapest Gambit was posted on the
website.

Coaching sessions Summer 2018

Coaching programme 2018

24 July	Looking for weaknesses
31 July	Creating and exchanging Strong pieces
7 Aug	Openings round-up (Bird's, Budapest, second openings)
14 Aug

Devon Juniors Training Day Sat 5th Nov 2016

Materials from the event are linked below.

Very many thanks to Paul O'Neill, Julian Bacon, Ben Sturt and Steve Keay for running the day.

Thanks too to Andrew Ashenhurst and St Peter's School for hosting.

Riviera Mini-Simul against U9 juniors

In order to get a bit of material to think about a future training event, Devon U9 Team co-Manager, Ben Sturt, took on the might of the U9 entry in a 7-board mini-simul.

These were the games... more on this later!

Free chess coaching videos online

I've been slow to tune in to what's available on places like YouTube for chess instruction, but here's a start, and I'll add to it over the while.

Comments and recommendations welcome; if there's an obvious gap I might have a go myself.
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The Chess Doctor at the DJCA Riviera Tournament 2015

We had lots of wonderful volunteers at the Riviera, which left me free to be a roving coach. Come and see the Chess Doctor, I said, and he will find our what's wrong with your chess, and suggest some treatments.

Coaching Programme Summer 2015

Tuesdays 7.30pm Small Bar, Heavitree Social Centre

U14 Training Day 14th February 2015

Thanks to everyone who came yesterday and made such a good effort.

The slideshow I used is attached for you to download.
http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/sites/exeterchessclub.org.uk/files/U14Trai...

Coaching Summer 2014

Coaching Sessions Summer 2014
24 Jun - Openings workshop
01 Jul - Rook and Pawn Endgames
08 Jul - Getting better at chess
15 Jul - Theo Slade Simul
22 Jul - Blunder-proofing your game
29 Jul - Endgames for investigation
05 Aug - The art of self-defence
12 Aug - DR not available

U14 Training Day, 1st February 2014

U14 Training Day

Thanks to everyone who came to the U14 training day, and special thanks to Tim and Sally for their support.

Whether or not you were there, you might find it useful to have a look at the links below. I hope you will find everything we showed you on the day and a few more things that we didn't have time for. The page below has links to all the computer software I showed you, too.

Quotes