Greenhill Chess #9, 2014
This week, students continued with the fork problem worksheet begun last week. Most pairs completed three or four more problems…
Greenhill Chess #8, 2014
Dr. Alexey Root taught forks using problems from Bruce Pandolfini’s Beginning Chess (New York: Fireside, 1993). Dr. Root…
Greenhill Chess #7, 2014
Dr. Alexey Root gave one example of a checkmate and one of a stalemate on the demonstration board. Then she asked Greenhill…
Journal of Chess Research (St. Louis Launch)
Dr. Alexey Root traveled to St. Louis for the launch of the Journal of Chess Research. While there, she got to visit the chess…
Greenhill Chess #6, 2014
Greenhill Chess Club students played the Game Theory challenge from Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14. The…
Greenhill Chess #5, 2014
For October 14, Dr. Alexey Root taught the Tandem Chess exercise from People, Places, Checkmates: Teaching Social Studies with…