Nov 6 News

There is a chess tournament tomorrow, Nov 7, at Highview Middle School in New Brighton. Be there before 8:30 to register. Cost is $22. You'll play only children in your same grade. It'll be done around 3:30. See schoolchess.org for more details or to register on-line.

Today we looked at checkmate patterns: the ladder, the kiss of death, the swallowtail mate, and one back-rank mate. Most of us tried the two rook mate aka the ladder.

Name	KRR	6-Nov
Tapio	PASS	287
Isaac	xxx	279
Kartik	PASS	269
Theo	PASS	229
Gage	xPASS	201
Bharath		198
Hale	PASS	189
Alex	xPASS	166
Abe	xx	145
Preston	PASS	142
Kiran		124
Luc	x	121
Jagger	xx	121
Eli		115
Thomas	PASS	100
Ethan		100
Stella		100
Michael		100