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Sunday 22 June 2014

Term 2 Chess at Aristea Primary

Good morning everyone!

I know, I know! Today is the first posts in almost 3 months, bur like all things there is a very good reason why one does not have time to blog.  In my case an unfortunate and not so good one: I went through a tuff situation at home.  Will publish the whole story in the July holidays.  (I still have one weeks school left for this term).

School info:  We are currently in the exams.  Its ending on Tuesday.  Thus no practices.  We will start again the first Tuesday in the 3rd term.  Practices will continue to be on a Tuesday and Thursday, with league matches taking place on Fridays, and tournaments taking place on Saturday mornings!

Updates:
We played four league games in the second term, and the results were as follows:
Match 1 vs Eversdal, u/13 and u/11's lost
Match 2 vs Curro - Cancelled due to the golfday
Match 3 vs Welgemoed, u/13 lost and u/11 draw
Match 4 vs Durbanville, u/13 won
Match 5 vs El Shaddai, u/11 lost

Tournaments:
We played our second friendly tournament at the end of May on a Saturday morning.  We only had 20 players, but LOTS of fun!  Click here to see the photos on the photos page.

First we had the 4* high school players playing a round robin tournament. * JJ being the volunteer who 'won' his place in this round robin.  The results, Corbin 1st, JJ 2nd, Trevor 3rd and Wouter 4th.

Then we had the four girls play in another round robin tournament.  The results, Angel-Leigh 1st, RenĂ© 2nd, Jessica (grade 4) 3rd, and Keisha 4th.

While these two round robins were played, all the rest played in one tournament of 4 rounds.  All the seniors, juniors and beginners in one mix.  The results were as follows:  (Click on the image to enlarge)


Afterwards, we had two more mixtures of groups playing together: 10 in each group, playing 3 more games.
The High school boys, with the Seniors, and the Juniors, Beginners and Girls playing together.
Their results were as follows:



Last words for today: Expect more posts in the week.  I plan to post a new puzzle each day, and more interesting articles that I found on the internet.

"Coming attractions":
The under 13 team is going on a tour to Mossel Bay, mid August. The names will be published this coming week!

Then we have the district top school play-off's this coming term - the girls team are going to be there!

Then, another thing to look forward to is the 3rd term league matches starting early in August! AND of course more tournaments on a Saturday morning. I will keep you posted.

:-)

13 Very common checkmates that everyone should know

Let us revisit some puzzles with easy checkmate patterns

Click on the puzzle to take you to the other 12 puzzles, on the puzzles page.
For each one, find checkmate in one move.

http://aristeachess.blogspot.com/p/puzzles.html

Enjoy!
:-)