Willoughby Public School Parents & Citizens Association

Classes are held on the school premises upstairs in the building overlooking the mini oval :

Please go to the Sydney Academy of Chess website to register and enter one of the following codes:

Years K-3: Tuesdays enter this code: RSLXMMGHFK
Note: Kindy students are encouraged to join from term 3.

Years 4-6: Wednesdays enter this code: 1T35SM02RI

All payments and rolls are handled by the Sydney Academy of Chess.

Classes are run for one hour on Tuesday (Years K-3) & Wednesday (Years 4-6) mornings before school @ 7:45am.   For all enquiries re attending Chess classes please email chess@wpspandc.com.au

We are still a young club and need help in many areas. If you can:

• Join the exec.
• Help co-ordinate some friendly inter-school games and/or exhibition games on the giant chess board;
• Help with some of our documents & web-site content (no special web or graphic design skills needed); THEN…

please email the club at chess@wpspandc.com.au

We hope the Chess Club has motivated your child(ren) and you! to learn more about Chess. The following are some ideas on how to progress/support your child’s and your learning:

For those of you with workbooks, please try to go through them. The solutions are at the back, but try and make sure the answers are used for checking AFTER the best attempt has been made to answer the puzzles! There is a beginner and an intermediate workbooks, so if your child has progressed through one, try the other.

For parents who want to catch up and if your child learns audio-visually, try this video series. The link takes you straight to part 3, parts 1 & 2 are about Chess philosophy & history, if you’re interested. Progress through parts 4, 5, etc. The quality is a bit ‘squelchy’, but the video provides texts of the lessons as well (to the right of the screen), for anyone with hearing difficulty.

If you don’t have a Workbook and you want to teach / guide kids to improve, there are websites with handouts / lesson guides. Some we’ve found:

http://www.chessvariants.com/chess4kids.dir/game2/game2_0.html

They’re being borrowed almost continually, but try to get one of the Chess books that the WPS library does have. Feel free to donate more. Some titles (not many are in the WPS library …yet) that have been highlighted to us are:

• 606 puzzles for chess nuts
• Beginning Chess play
• Cool Chess
• Hot Chess
• Kasparov Chess Challenge
• The winning way
• 101 puzzles for beginners
• Tactical Chess Training
• Winning Chess move by move

Also have a look at these chess book sites for more info:

Sydney Academy of Chess

Chess Australia