Monday, February 23, 2015

Ratings


Today we learned about hurdles or skewers. We also previewed th rook and king checkmate.
Next week we'll learn the KQ checkmate and the KR checkmate.

Isaac 201
Everett 178
Hale 161
Abe 149
Gage 144
Tapio 130
Kartik 129
Cole 114
Theo 113
Luc 106
Bharath 106
Amelia 100
Auriana 100

Monday, February 9, 2015

News

Today we learned about forks. Moving a piece so that it attacks two pieces at once.
We spent a lot of time on knights, but we also found out that any piece can fork.


Name 9-Feb
Isaac 175
Everett 150
Hale 148
Gage 147
Abe 122
Tapio 121
Luc 115
Cole 114
Bharath 110
Theo 100
Kartik 100
Amelia 100

Monday, February 2, 2015

Ratings

We learned checkmate, stalemate, RR mate, KQ mate and the swallowtail mate.
If you need more help with these, find my lessons on-line from the chessbybill link in the upper right.

Isaac 155
Everett 128
Gage 126
Hale 126
Luc 126
Cole 126
Theo 110
Bharath 110
Kartik 110
Abe 100
Amelia 100
Tapio 100