Chess and Academic Competitions Presentations
Dr. Alexey Root will present twice at the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) annual conference. Her…
Greenhill Chess #10, 2014
The tenth and last meeting of the fall semester was for awards. A special cause for celebration was Greenhill School's first…
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…