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Chess Library Books Due

If you borrowed a chess book this year, please return it this Friday.  All chess club property needs to be returned.
Below are photos of the covers for each of the chess books we loan out to students. If you have any of these books at home that were borrowed from the Chess Club, please return them to Ms. Reeb in the library.
Chess Library Covers
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Knight Shadow

At Friday’s club meeting, we showed a video on achieving checkmate with only a King and Queen.  The Queen is used to drive the opponent’s King into a corner by using the Knight’s shadow technique. Care must be taken to leave some room for the opponent’s King to move, to avoid a stalemate position. The King then drives up the board to support the queen in the final checkmate move.

There is also a good article on Wikipedia that describes checkmate with only a King and Queen.

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Laurel Mountain Tournament This Weekend

The last scholastic tournament of the school year is this Saturday, April 11th at Laurel Mountain Elementary.  There will be NO onsite registration, and your last chance to register online is this Wednesday, April 8th by midnight.  This tournament has a 400 player cap and they are already at 390, so if you are planning to attend, you should click the registration link below.

Laurel Mountain Elementary chess tournament website

Tournament registration website

Good luck to all of our students this weekend!

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