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Editorial

Happy new year, and welcome to another year of Building Mental Muscles™. Only a very short way into the term

and already it is looking like being a bumper chess year!

We are pleased to welcome to 2 new franchisees to the

Chess Kids team:

Chess Kids Glen Eira Carl Gorka

Chess Kids Brimbank Christian Walkerden

Both are looking forward to working with schools and stu-dents in their respective areas and developing the number and the ability of players. If you are lucky enough to be in one of those areas you can expect a lot more attention and chess to happen near you. If you are hoping to work with one of them you’ll need to contact them quickly while

they have time-slots available. Ring on 1300 4-CHESS.

We have a new website for interschool chess (www.interschool.com.au) and we are particularly keen (while it is still under development) to get as much feed-back as possible. We’d like the site to be really functional, easy to use and full of useful information. If there is any-

thing at all we can do to improve, please let us know!

After being asked about a million times we are finally of-fering a seminar for adults who want to learn how to play, learn the basic strategies or just help their kids get the most benefit from chess. It will be a fun 2 hour session and everyone is guaranteed to walk away understanding a lot more about chess. See www.chesskids.com.au/seminar

for details.

To celebrate our 10th year coaching in schools we offered to provide 100 free chess demonstrations to schools around Australia. The problem was that 145 schools re-sponded within the first 10 days of the offer!! Many of these schools have never played chess or been part of a tournament and we look forward to getting to at least 100, but hopefully more, and encouraging their kids to play

chess.

We cannot provide any more free sessions, but if you hon-estly ‘meant to ring’ we’ll take pity and accept another 50

at ½ price.

-David Cordover

Volume 7 Issue 1 Term 1, 2007 Editor: David Cordover

Inside This Issue

The Paris Defence Page 2 Andrew’s Top Tips Page 2

National Interschool Finals Page 3 Endgame Coaching Page 4

Puzzle Page Page 5 Cause or Effect? Page 6

Calendar for 2007 Page 7 Back-to-School Specials Page 8

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You can help kids get more benefits from playing chess.

Learn to … Play, Think & Teach

An educational seminar for parents, teachers,

and interested adults. March 18, 2-4pm.

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Chess Kids Page 2

Are you sick and tired of losing to the

Fried Liver or the Max Lange Attacks?

Try the Paris Defence……like 4th World Champion Alexander Alekhine,

one of the greatest attackers of all time

Rodzynski - Alekhine

Paris, 1913

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 d6

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fied because the f7-square is protected.

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f7 are completed.

7...Nxf7 8.Nxf7 Qxf7 9.Qxb7

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less, and this allows Alekhine to give up

the rook.

9...Kd7 The king is perfectly safe here, and the White queen will be out of play

in the corner.

10.Qxa8 Qc4 11.f3

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the light squares with the queen.

11...Bxf3 12.gxf3 Nd4 This exploits the pin on the c-file and threatens mate at

e2.

13.d3 Qxd3 Now there is no more pin

on the c-file.

14.cxd4

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to 15..Rxa8

15...Bh4# 0–1

Andrew’s Top Tips to Improve

Almost everyone takes a different path to chess improvement. In my experience there are a few things which are univer-sal - strategies which all top players

have used as a way of improving.

Get a Chess Coach

Getting a chess coach is a fantastic way of learning more about chess. A coach will often be able to speak from experi-ence about a wide variety of topics. Coaching comes in different forms; a chess club at school if you want general coaching, or private coaching if you want content specific or tailored coach-ing. Both methods are great, but private coaches focus more on the individual

student needs.

Practice, Practice, Practice

There is a saying “Practice makes per-fect”. All chess players are continually improving and getting better, even Grandmasters! If you regularly practice chess at home you too will keep improv-ing. Visit www.chessclub.com and www.freechess.org where you can play

chess online.

Read Chess Books

This can be the most exciting way of learning more about chess. It certainly is effective. If you really want to become a good chess player then it is important to read chess books. Why you may ask? Because they have so much chess knowledge in them. I recommend read-ing books on strategy which talk about the ideas of positions. If you can also read books on tactics and when prepar-ing for tournaments read opening books to create a powerful opening repertoire. If you want to know more about chess books and what is right for you, simply

ask your chess coach!

There are other ways to improve at chess but these are my top three. Always try to play people a little better than you and if they beat you, think about what

you may have done wrong.

Best of luck with your games!

The Paris Defence By Carl Gorka

Chess Kids Page 3

The National Interschool Chess Cham-pionships were held at Monash Univer-

sity on the 4th and 5th December 2006.

It was a particularly exciting event be-cause it was the first time ever that EVERY state in Australia was repre-sented. A very big welcome to the NT

participants!

Monash University partnered with Chess Kids to put together a memorable event. The venue was the spacious Campus Centre in the middle of

Monash’s Clayton Campus.

The venue proved to be the perfect loca-tion for a chess tournament. Not even a freak accident leaving the entire campus without electricity could dim the enthu-siasm. (Although it did have organizers worried about the life of a laptop-

battery!)

A total of $20,770 was given to partici-pating teams (thanks to Monash Univer-sity and Chess Kids) to assist their par-ticipation in this event. We know that

without this support many teams would

be unable to participate.

Congratulations to the winning teams,

and to all players for their enthusiasm!

k Q r L n

One of the best aspects of this event is the coaching - with dozens of Austra-lia’s best coaches coming together to help students with individual feedback

after each game.

Place Name State Score

1 MOUNT VIEW PRIMARY VIC 20.5

BRIGHTON GRAMMAR VIC 20.5

3 ST ANDREW'S GRAMMAR WA 20.0

4 KALEEN PRIMARY ACT 18.5

5 MANUNDA TERRACE PRIMARY NT 18.0

6 FORTH PRIMARY TAS 17.5

DONCASTER GARDENS PRIMARY VIC 17.5

WEST ULVERSTONE PRIMARY TAS 17.5

GREYTHORN PRIMARY VIC 17.5

10 BURNSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL SA 16.5

11 HAWKER PRIMARY ACT 16.0

12 ST PIUS X WA 15.0

KIDMAN PARK PRIMARY SA 15.0

14 PLENTY VALLEY MONTESSORI VIC 13.5

15 BRIGHTON PRIMARY VIC 12.5

16 BRADSHAW PRIMARY SCHOOL NT 9.0

GLAMORGAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL VIC 9.0

18 ST THOMAS MAREEBA QLD 8.5

19 ST FINBAR'S PRIMARY VIC 6.0

National Interschool Championships

Primary Division


1 SCOTCH COLLEGE VIC 20.0

ALFRED DEAKIN HIGH SCHOOL ACT 20.0

3 KEW HIGH VIC 17.5

4 LATROBE HIGH TAS 16.5

5 MELBOURNE GRAMMAR VIC 16.0

6 BRIGHTON GRAMMAR VIC 15.0

7 THE FRIENDS SCHOOL TAS 14.5

SACRED HEART MIDDLE SCHOOL SA 14.5

9 WODONGA MIDDLE YEARS COLLEGE NSW 5.5


Junior Secondary Division


1 BRIGHTON GRAMMAR VIC 19.5

2 CAMBERWELL GRAMMAR VIC 19.0

3 MIRBOO NORTH SECONDARY COLLEGE VIC 18.0

MAZENOD COLLEGE VIC 18.0

5 ST BRENDAN-SHAW COLLEGE TAS 17.5

6 SETON CATHOLIC COLLEGE WA 17.0

7 RED CLIFFS SECONDARY COLLEGE VIC 16.0

TYNDALE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SA 16.0

9 DARWIN HIGH SCHOOL NT 15.0

10 KIRWAN STATE HIGH QLD 14.0

11 HALLS HEAD COMMUNITY COLLEGE WA 13.5

12 BENDIGO SENIOR SECONDARY COLLE VIC 13.0

13 ALICE SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL NT 10.0

14 ST MARY'S BROOME WA 9.0


Open Secondary Division

Chess Kids Page 4

Lucena Endgame

This is a follow on from my article in the last Chess Kids magazine, showing how you can make plans in endgames

by knowing simpler positions.

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ending called the Lucena Position.

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route so he pushes Black's king away

1.Re2+ Kd7 2.Re4 This is a really use-ful technique called “building a bridge” 2.Kf7 would be too early as White’s king cannot prevent checks 2...Rf1+ 3.Kg6 Rg1+ 4.Kf6 Rf1+ 5.Ke5 Rg1

6.Kf6 Rf1+ etc

2...Kd6 3.Kf7 Now the king can come out, as his rook will be able to give pro-

tection from Black's checks.

3...Rf1+ Black has to keep checking or

White will just get a queen

4.Kg6 Rg1+ 5.Kf6 Rf1+ After 5...Kd5 White protects the promotion square, and hides his king behind Black's king 6.Re8 Rf1+ 7.Ke7 Re1+ 8.Kd7 and the best Black can now do is give up his

rook for the pawn by 8...Rg1 9.g8Q+

6.Kg5 Notice how White's king has

zigzagged back towards Black's rook

6...Rg1+ 7.Rg4 and here is the bridge which White's king stands upon. Black cannot stop White from moving his

pawn up to get a new queen

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do about this.

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up to reach the Lucena position.

74..Rh2 All Yusupov can do is wait.

75.Ra5 Rh1 76.Ra7+ Ke8 77.e6 Rh2 78.Rf7 Rh1 79.e7 Rh2 80.Rf8+! A great move, giving up a pawn but now he can reach the Lucena position and win eas-

ily.

80..Kxe7 81.Rf3 Lucena!

81...Ke8 82.Re3+ Kd7 83.Re4 and Yu-supov resigned when he saw a bridge

being built. 1–0

Chess Kids Coaching “Endgame Coaching”

• Know what you are aiming for in the endgame

• Rooks work best at a distance from enemy pieces

• Keep your King in front of any passed pawns

• Keep your Rooks behind any passed pawns

By Carl Gorka

Chess Kids Page 5

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Need to Build your Mental Muscles™? (Answers on Page 8)

Chess Kids Page 6

Cause or Effect?

L I F E L E S S O N S F R O M C H E S S

Life is a game of chess. It is a game of

chess within a game of chess. Much like

a Russian doll - with an infinite number

of chess games built into each other.

Each game you play is but a move on

the larger chessboard. That game, in

turn, is just a single move somewhere

even bigger.

My study of chess over the years, my experience in playing games, and ulti-mately my successes in tournaments, have given me critical lessons I have been able to apply in life; leading to vic-tories far sweeter than anything achieved on a practice board. My great-est achievement of all time is my 2-

year-old son.

To play the game of Life without the lessons from many thousands of chess games would be like trying to play chess without having learned the rules

or played a game. Challenging.

I believe everything in life is your re-sponsibility. Everything is caused by

either your actions or in-actions.

Everything.

I do not apportion blame or imply fault, just accept that there are consequences and I should hold myself accountable

for everything in my life, good or bad.

Just as when you play a game of chess you are the one who determines the move you play, in your life you are the one who makes each move. You ulti-mately control the destiny of the game with the moves you make. There is no

luck in chess or in life.

Each move you make has an effect on other people. Each move causes your opponent to think, to react and to them-selves make a move. Their moves are

always influenced by yours.

This belief in responsibility is not in-nate. It is the natural state of good men-tal health, but it has to be learned and experienced to be truly understood and

believed.

Children, in particular, have trouble ac-cepting responsibility for their actions

or considering consequences before making a move. Playing ball in the house; a window gets broken – “it was an accident” or “he threw it” – rather than accepting there are consequences for every action. I don’t suggest blam-ing the child, or punishing them, but rather teaching that they are responsible for everything, that they create every situation in their lives. This is a power-

ful concept.

The notion of responsibility comes with the idea of control. If you believe that you control your life, your fate and you create your world by virtue of your ac-tions, or in-actions, then you can take full responsibility. You become the

cause of the world you live in.

If you are out of control, an effect of the world, then everything appears to be pre-destined, chaotic and responsibility

lies ‘out there’.

Young people often live experiences in-dicating lack of control. A twig on the river of life, tossed around with no con-trol over their destiny. Why do they feel

like this?

A young person experiences very lim-ited control over their own life. Teach-ers at school tell them what to do, set boundaries, rules and physical restraints. The bell goes; time to eat - but nobody

asked if I was hungry!

Parents too, give curfews and rules. Young people have no financial free-dom and limited geographic mobility. They have very little decision making

power or control over their own life.

On and on it goes. For the first 14-18 years of life most experience the world as a place in which they are being af-fected by everyone and everything around them. Few find they have an im-

pact on, or cause the world to change.

No matter what you say, experiences are always more powerful lessons than

words.

The cause is powerlessness, the effect is

a negative feeling.

What options do they have to change

this:

a) Change the effect, persuade yourself the cause is right and the

emotional response is wrong.

b) Change the cause – become

more powerful

Those who don’t enjoy the emotions can ‘escape’. Teenagers abuse drugs and al-cohol because they want to ‘escape’ these emotions. Their solution is to arti-ficially induce the feeling that they don’t care – often articulated with the phrase ‘losing our inhibitions’. The loss of inhibitions makes the fact that you aren’t in control of your actions real, and the emotion changes. You don’t

care that this is the case.

Inhibitions are necessary; they prevent dangerous (to self and others) activities and behaviour which further lessens self-esteem. How often have you heard… “I did that, but I was drunk” or “I beat that person up, but I was drunk”. The actions are no longer personal, they ‘didn’t care’ at the time (or later) be-cause there was no control of mental

and physical faculties.

Many think this is wonderful! Why so great? Because this is an attempt at something broader, something more enormous – they are looking at their lives, feeling powerless and small, they are at cause in the world, everything happens to them, nothing happens be-cause of them. They try to accept this is ‘just the way it is’ and tell themselves the reaction is wrong – that the power-lessness is correct, but their emotions are wrong. So hide from the feeling that

(Continued on page 7)

By David Cordover

Chess Kids Page 7

2007 Tournament Calendar

they don’t enjoy.

Alternatively, is it surprising that in seeking some form of control – some way of feeling more powerful (more at cause) that many choose to ‘rebel’.

What is that really?

It is the cry that “We don’t like not be-ing in control, we don’t like being at cause in the world and you can’t make

me!” Sound familiar? You can’t MAKE

ME!

What is graffiti? Theft? Violence? Mur-der? All crimes start out with the neces-sity to prove to ones-self that YOU CAN’T MAKE ME. That the world is-n’t controlling – that the individual has the ability to make a difference to their own lives (natural to think of oneself first, then only later be able to consider the possibility of making a difference to

other lives).

Obviously all teachers and parents apply rules and regulations with the depth of experience and in the best interest of the child. The side effect we can leave be-

hind is a feeling of loss of control.

We need not just to tell, to say that “YOU CAN DO IT” to build self-esteem, confidence and belief in them-selves with words. We need to show it – at the same time teaching that RULES are there for a reason and they cannot be

disregarded.

No matter what you say, experiences are always more powerful lessons than

words.

Tell your child they CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE and change the world; within the confines of the RULES. Say “YOU can be, do, have and create eve-rything you desire – even within the

boundaries set for you.”

Just like a game of chess. In chess you have rules which you MUST apply. These are not negotiable. The laws of the game. Yet, within and using those rules you can control the entire world – you are the cause of every move. You choose at every moment what happens, no outside influence, no ‘luck’ of the dice. Your decision. Your choice. Your RESPONSIBILITY. If you make a bad decision you learn from it and try again. If you make a good decision you get the

reward.

This is the analogy. It has all the com-ponents necessary and it is a game. It is

FUN. Just as life should be.

If every child could play chess, just once a week, and unconsciously learn the lessons of responsibility that the game teaches…imagine the possibili-

ties.

(Continued from page 6)

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Mental Muscles™ - Answers 1. 1.Nf6+ Kf8 2.Bh6++

2. 1.Bb5++

3. 1.Rg8+ Rxg8 2.Nf7++

4. 1.Nf6+ gxg6 2.Re8++

5. 1.Ng6+ Kf7 2.Nxh8++

6. 1.Nh6 Rf8 2.Rg8+ Rxg8 3.Nxf7++

7. 1.f8=Q+ Bxf8 2.Rf7+ Nxf7 3.Re6++

8. 1.Ng6+ Kg8 2.Ne7+ Kh8 3.Rxh7+ Kxh7 4.Rh1++

9. 1.Rh8+ Kf7 2.Be8+ Nxe8 3.Kg5 any black move

4.Rf8++

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