WEEKEND AND HOLIDAY FUN
We hope the Chess Club has motivated your child(ren) and you! to learn more about Chess. The following are some ideas on how to progress/support your child’s and your learning:
For those of you with workbooks, please try to go through them. The solutions are at the back, but try and make sure the answers are used for checking AFTER the best attempt has been made to answer the puzzles! There is a beginner and an intermediate workbook, so if your child has progressed through one, try the other.
For parents who want to catch up and if your child learns audio-visually, try this video series. The link takes you straight to part 3, parts 1 & 2 are about Chess philosophy & history, if you’re interested. Progress through parts 4, 5, etc. The quality is a bit ‘squelchy’, but the video provides texts of the lessons as well (to the right of the screen), for anyone with hearing difficulty.
If you don’t have a Workbook and you want to teach / guide kids to improve, there are websites with handouts / lesson guides. Some we’ve found:
http://www.rockfordchess.org/instruction/
http://www.chesskids.com/lessons04.shtml
… and a game to play through:
http://www.chessvariants.com/chess4kids.dir/game2/game2_0.html
They’re being borrowed almost continually, but try to get one of the Chess books that the WPS library does have. Feel free to donate more. Some titles (not many are in the WPS library …yet) that have been highlighted to us are:
- 606 puzzles for chess nuts
- Beginning Chess play
- Cool Chess
- Hot Chess
- Kasparov Chess Challenge
- The winning way
- 101 puzzles for beginners
- Tactical Chess Training
- Winning Chess move by move
Also have a look at these chess book sites for more info:
Keep watching the Sydney Academy’s site for info on the latest events or even to play live online at http://www.sydneyacademyofchess.com.au/onlinereadme1.html