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Fall Class Sign Up Time is Here!
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 t’s
back to school time—and that means not just back to the books but
back to the boards as well. Sign up for a fall Kid Chess class now;
space is limited and classes fill up fast.
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Contact Gale Elfer, 404-875-7137 or Gale@KidChess.com
for more information or to sign up, or use the form below (under the
schedule).
Advanced Classes are also available. |
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| Monday |
Findley
Oaks (Fulton/Duluth) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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Mount
Bethel (East Cobb) 2:30 & 3:40 |
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Mountain
Park (Roswell) 2:35 & 3:40 |
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Medlock
Bridge (Fulton/Duluth) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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Mountain
View (East Cobb)
Approx 2:30 & 3:35 |
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| Tuesday |
Noonday
Academy (Cobb) 7 a.m. |
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Ford
(West Cobb) Approx 2:30 & 3:35 |
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A.A.E.N.
Home School Group (Roswell)
Tuesday 11:15 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. |
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Tritt
(East Cobb) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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Nicholson
(Cobb) Approx 2:30 & 3:35 |
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Queen
of Angels (Roswell) 3:25 & 4:30 |
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Hillside
(Fulton) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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| Wednesday |
Wood
Acres (East Cobb) 3:10 & 4:15 |
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Addison
(East Cobb) 1:35 |
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Sixes
(Cherokee) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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Roswell
North (Fulton) 2:45 & 3:50 |
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Pace
Academy (Buckhead) 2:05 & 3:15 |
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Alpharetta
(Fulton) 2:30 & 3:35 |
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| Thursday |
Vaughan
(West Cobb)2:25 & 3:30 |
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Davis
(NE Cobb) 2:35 & 3:40 |
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State
Bridge Crossing (Fulton/Duluth)
2:25 & 3:30 |
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River
Eves (Fulton) 2:30 and 3:35 |
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Holy
Redeemer (Alpharetta) 3:20 and 4:25 |
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| Friday |
Mount
Bethel (East Cobb) 2:30 and 3:40 |
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The
Walker School (Marietta) 2:50 and 3:55 |
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Heard's
Ferry (Fulton) 2:45 and 3:50 |
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Manning
Oaks (Alpharetta) 2:45 and 3:50 |
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This Month In
Kid Chess News
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Where
to Buy your Chess Supplies |
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KidChess.com has
arranged with www.Cajunchess.com
to make chess shopping easy for you. You can easily order chess
merchandise through the Kidchess.com link to Cajunchess.
If you are not comfortable ordering
online or if you just like to handle merchandise before you buy it,
Kid Chess recommends the Atlanta Chess Center, 3155A E. Ponce de
Leon Ave in Scottdale. Call 404-377-4400 for ACC details.
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First
Georgia Peach Open a Success!
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ajun
Chess came to town to reintroduce big-time hotel chess to Atlanta and the
response they got indicates Atlanta was hungry for it. The Georgia Peach Open
attracted 146 players in the main tournament and 72 players in the scholastic
section. When the smoke had cleared, Connecticut grandmaster Ildar Ibragimov had
won with 4.5 points. To see all the standings, visit the CajunChess.com website.
Although the tournament had been booked for months at the Doubletree Hilton
in Buckhead, organizer Richard Crespo found that the hotel had double booked the
ballrooms. A potential disaster was averted when the Doubletree managed to book
the tournament into the Grand Hyatt just one hotel over. This didn’t seem to
affect turnout and the Grand Hyatt is a much nicer facility.
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GM Ildar Ibragimov
photo by Daniel Lucas
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Kazim
Gulamali: Media Star!
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eorgia
High School champion and the state’s highest rated scholastic
player has been featured recently on Fox 5 News and in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
The Fox 5 news report was due to Gulamali
playing chess with Governor Sonny Perdue. This was organized as
publicity for Kazim’s trip in August to play in the Denker
Tournament of High School Champions.
The report in the AJC was the front page story of the
July 30 “Atlanta and the World” section and focused on the
international aspect of chess in Atlanta, using Gulamali as one of
the most successful examples (Kazim’s father is from Pakistan
and his mother is from India).
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Kazim Gulamali playing chess with Georgia
governor Sonny Perdue
photo courtesy of CapitolImpact.com
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Metro
Area
Tournaments |
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The following tournaments are not associated with Kid Chess and may be run differently than our events. Please contact the organizer to discuss details.
8/3: Atlanta Chess Center Scholastics.
4-SS, G/30. Atlanta Chess Center, 3155A
East Ponce de Leon Ave, Scottdale, Georgia 30079. In 4 sections:
High School: open to 9-12. Middle School: open to K-8. Elementary:
open to K-6. Primary: open to K-3. All, EF: $11. Ttophies to top 4
each section (based on 10 each section). Reg. 12:15-1 P.M. Rounds:
1st at 1:30, rest as soon as possible. Awards ceremony right after
last round. Enter: Atlanta Chess Center, address above. NS. NC.
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Chess
Essentials and Tactics Corner
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 he
first thing I bet most kids would think when they here the term “Anastasia’s
Mate” is that it must be named after the princess Anastasia as featured
in the recent feature length animated film. However, according to GM
Murray Chandler in his book How To Beat Your Dad At Chess (Gambit
Books, $14.95) the term actually comes from a 1903 novel that has an
example of this basic mating pattern. (Click Here
to view August 2003 Kid Chess Newsletter games):
As I’ve stated before in this column, learning basic patterns,
especially mating patterns, will spark your chess improvement. Here are
the basics of the Anastasia mate, with our example taken from the 1919
game Berryman-Straat:
The key elements are: a knight on e7 and a rook that
can swing over to the h-file. Look at what squares the knight guards and
see if you can figure out the winning maneuver. Give up? 13.Qxh7+ Kxh7
14.Rh5# 1–0
The knight controls the key flight squares g6 and g8.
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Now, let’s look at the perils of not
knowing this pattern. During a simul exhibition in 1908, a Mr. Fortuljn
must have thought he was going to beat World Champion Emmanuel Lasker when
Lasker allowed a knight fork of his rook and queen. In the following
position, Fortuljn has just played, 28...Nc5. See if you can play
out the following position to mate (it is a mate-in-three):
The game finished: 29.Ne7+ Kh8
30.Qxh7+ Kxh7 31.Rh4# 1–0 Technically, this is
not a mate-in-three since Black could play 29...Qxe7, but since that just
loses the queen and many players are not familiar with the Anastasia
mating pattern, Kh8 is the most likely move.
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Newsletter designed and produced by Daniel Lucas, danluc@mindspring.com, 770-338-5803
Web-based newsletter rendered by Bill
Noyes |
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September
2003