Central Texas Chess club
Our Chess Club had a fantastic year and to end on a high note, we decided to put together a review of our accomplishments. Please look through the file below that outlines all the great things our kids and volunteers have done over the past school year.
Last week, we asked for donations from the parents in order to give thank you gift cards to three hardworking school staff that help make our club so successful. Those donations were used to purchase three Target gift cards that were given to the following awesome people:
Laura Reeb has been our hardworking club sponsor who was kind enough to wake up extra early every Friday to make sure the school doors were open for Chess Club meetings. She also made sure to properly report the monthly finances and handled items like Chess books returned by students.
Hernan Benitiz has also helped the club by ensuring the school doors are open for us.
Courtney Torres graciously placed all of the orders for chess equipment, chess books and other items throughout the year.
We received the following message from Laura Reeb:
Hernan and I would like to say a big thank you for our gift cards. You are very generous and we appreciate your thoughtfulness. I have enjoyed being your sponsor this year. It has been a big eye-opener to see all that it takes to make the Chess Club successful. Parents have given so much time to make the club run smoothly… true dedication to our kids!
I hope you all have a wonderful summer.
See you next year!
Laura
We are testing the Amazon Associates program that allows you to purchase goods on Amazon.com and at the same time, gives a small percentage reward to our Spicewood Chess Club account. Each quarter, we should receive an update with how much we have earned in the form of an Amazon reward card that we can then use to purchase Chess club equipment. If you are going to purchase something on Amazon, please help us test this new program by clicking the link below first before you make your purchases.
Today was our last club meeting of the school year. We celebrated by bringing out the LED Chess sets and the 4 way Chess sets for kids to play. Ms. Kim also stopped by and spoke to the group to tell them they did a great job this year and to encourage them to keep playing Chess over the summer. We also let the graduating 5th graders say a few words of encouragement to the rest of the club and we wished them well as they move on to Canyon Vista Middle School. We are sure to see them at Chess tournaments next year.
Here are a few photos from today’s meeting. (Thanks to Marlon Revelett for the photos)
Next week, there will be no Chess club meeting, but we are asking parents that are available to meet in the Library at 6:40AM-7:40AM to help organize, clean and store all of the Chess Club equipment. We plan to disinfect all chessmen and boards before storing them over the summer and request your help next week. Parents that attend next week’s organization meeting can bring their kids if they want to also help.
At today’s meeting we also gave out bookmarks to everyone. They were nicely printed and laminated by Jenn’s Copy and Binding.
Please make sure to read the message on the back!
We held the last Chess Store of the school year today. Thank you to all the volunteers who manned the store and helped make it a successful and fun event. Here are a few photos from the event:
Remember, if you have any leftover Chess Bucks from this year, you can always use them next year at the next Chess Store event.
The 2014-2015 school yearbooks were delivered this week and our club has a nice one page layout with many photos of our club members. Thanks to all the people who worked on the yearbook and made it so nice. Here is a scan of the page, can you find yourself in the photos?
The Chess Club Store will be open this Friday morning, May 15th. Please remember to bring your Chess Bucks to Friday’s meeting.
Volunteers are needed. Please contact Terri Schlosser at tbuchana@gmail.com.
En passant is a special pawn capture move that can only occur immediately after a pawn moves two ranks forward from its starting position, and an enemy pawn could have captured it had the pawn moved only one square forward. The opponent captures the just-moved pawn “as it passes” through the first square. The resulting position is the same as if the pawn had moved only one square forward and the enemy pawn had captured it normally. The en passant capture must be made at the very next turn, or the right to do so is lost. It is the only occasion in chess in which a piece is captured but is not replaced on its square by the capturing piece.
The en passant capture rule was added in the 15th century when the rule that gave pawns an initial double-step move was introduced. It prevents a pawn from using the two-square advance to pass an adjacent enemy pawn without the risk of being captured. Allowing the en passant capture, together with the introduction of the two-square first move for pawns, was one of the last major rule changes in European chess, and occurred between 1200 and 1600.
In today’s chess club meeting, we showed a Chesskid.com video that explains the en passant rule. You can view that video here:
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