The Noble Game – A Short Film

This is a ~30 minute short film that documents scholastic chess in France.  It follows kids and parents as they compete in a tournament to earn a spot in the French championship tournament.   While it is in French, it has subtitles and worth watching to get a better understanding of the tournament experience.

Hungarian Chess Set

Searching on Ebay, one can come across some interesting Chess related items. The photos below are of a Hungarian chess set made of sterling silver, gold and enameled with stones. The item description states it was once owned by a royal family. Can you guess how much they are selling it for? $180,000! Who knows if they will get someone to buy it, but just look at the level of detail that went into making it! I particularly like the horses coming out of the corners of the board but I would worry that if I played chess on it, I might break it and have to buy it!

First post

This website was setup on March 5th, 2015.  We hope that this site will help our students and parents learn more about the game of Chess.

We also have the ability to post chess games from PGN files as well as arbitrarily set positions on a chess board.

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This is an example of the 10 golden moves.  White has positioned their pieces in the “bull” formation with the bishops as horns.