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Chess Academy Workbooks for after-school and home work
  Available on 22+ levels and topics

·        For New to chess   Order Chess Academy 100, 101, Ruels Book

  • For Beginners Chess Academy 102, 103, 104, 105, 106
  • For Intermediate  Order Chess Academy 201, 202, 203, 207, 208
  • For Advanced Order Chess Academy 202, 203, 301 and more
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Information for a chess parent

All your child needs to know to be a winner in scholastic tournaments.

ÓBy WGM Elena & IM Georgi Orlov

For After-school chess clubs: Qualified and trained chess Instructors are available to teach in  Complete Beginners, Advanced Beginners, Intermediate Groups. 

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RULES questions

 

What to expect at the Scholastic Tournament

Tournaments Rules

 

WA Scholastic Schedule, Ratings, And Tournament Reports - website

Bughouse Rules   Blitz Rules

 

Tie-breaks used in local tournaments– SCO (Solkoff, Cummulative, Opposition) to determine place in case of equal score of several players.

http://www.swissperfect.com/handbook/tiebreak.htm General description

http://www.whsca.org/TiebreaksCheck.html  Local NW tournaments

http://www.nwinfo.net/~chess/tiebreaks.html Local NW tournaments

 

Chess Scoresheet

IMPROVE your game

 

Four Move Checkmate
Playing games with chess clock

How to study openings

“DoNots” for beginners

Playing blitz games   

How to start working with young kids at home (even if parents do not play chess)

Teaching chess to girls

Take a test to make sure your child is improving! TEST for all Levels (Scholastic players Grades K-6)

 

 

Currently Not available:

Instructions for Intermediate and Advanced players by IM Georgi Orlov
Free website lessons. You will find basic endgame instructions, popular openings, and middlegame lessons. IM Georgi Orlov is 1994 US Open Champion, rated 2500+ USCF

 

 

 

Computers and chess

 

COACH ELENA about “U”

 

BOOKS

Recommended Scholastic Chess  Books: 

 

  • Chess School 1B  Puzzles for players with rating 900-1200
  • Chess School 2
  • Chess Academy Workbooks by WGM Elena Donaldson, Three Time US Women’s Champion. Puzzles workbooks for after-school chess clubs, homework, and self-study

 

  • Beginners Chess Academy.  This workbook for a complete beginner is based on Russian chess schools curriculum with lots of puzzles for young students ages 4-7. This workbook teaches moves and rules to a complete beginner in several weeks.

Search for these books on Amazon:

  • How to Beat Your Dad in chess.
  • CHESS (5000+ puzzles by L Polgar)

 

 

 

 

 

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