Chess Club - The Gambits

   Hello Chess Comrades! This week's blog is out here.  Agenda of today's session 1. A Theory Session provided by Mr. Dhanasekhar 2. Friendly Practice Matches with fellow students 3. Completion of a Mate in one move Test Notes In today's session we were given an interactive theory session by Mr. Dhanashekar, Secretary of Coimbatore District Chess Association. The lessons taught ranged from revision of previous topics, four move or scholar's mate, fool's mate, chess boxing, Chess Olympiad etc... A. Fool's Mate or 2 Move Mate B. Scholar's Mate or 4 Move Mate https://www.chesskid.com/terms/scholars-mate-chess  - See this article for the complete lesson about Scholar's Mate B. Chess Boxing B. Chess Olympiad Screenshots of the Activity Note: We are rolling out a new feature in our blog. Now, with this, you can solve our daily chess puzzle and play a match with the computer in our Chess Club Blog homepage. A new chess tutor page is also under construction. As ...

  Hello Chess Comrades! This week's blog is out here.  Agenda of today's session 1. A Theory Session provided by Mr. Dhanasekhar 2. Friendly Practice Matches with fellow students 3. Completion of  a Mate in one move Test Notes In today's session we were given an interactive theory session by Mr. Dhanashekar, Secretary of Coimbatore District Chess Association. The lessons taught ranged from basic rules, castling opportunities and conditions, defending, check and moving away from it, robots and chess and more. For a quick review, let's see few of the concepts here. A. Stalemate Stalemate is a situation in the game of chess where the whose turn it is to move is not in chess and has no legal move. Stalemate results in a draw. Black is under stalemate B. Twofold Attack A piece being attacked twice by two different pieces An example of a two-fold attack C. Defending We can defend our pieces by one of the following ways: 1. Capturing 2. Supporting 3. Moving Away 4. Interposing...