Here is a mesmerizing video of someone making a micro size chess set. The video shows how they create the board out of wood complete with a drawer and insert to hold the micro chess pieces. The chess pieces are made of brass metal and created by turning them on a lathe. They are so tiny!!!
New Bookmark Coming Soon
Each year, we print out bookmarks with Chess related designs for the kids to use. Here is this year’s first bookmark design.
We hope to have it printed and passed out to the students in the next few weeks.
Club Meeting – September 21st
Chess club will meet in the gym for the next two weeks. The library is setup for the annual Bookfair and not available to us.
We will setup chess boards on the floor as there are no tables/chairs in the gym.
Parents may want to consider wearing jeans. Please do not wear shoes with heels as they can scratch the gym floor.
Club Meeting – September 7th
In today’s meeting, James showed the following video to the Pawns group:
Chris reviewed the Ruy Lopez opening and showed the following video to the Knights group:
Ruy Lopez is the short name of Rodrigo Lopez de Segura who was a Spanish priest who lived between 1530 and 1580. Ruy Lopez wrote a book in 1561 called Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez which was one of the first definitive books about modern chess in Europe.
The Ruy Lopez Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5) is named after him, as is a variation in the Petroff Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 Qe7).
The painting above shows Ruy Lopez being defeated by Leonard di Cutri, an Italian chess master. After Leonard won against Ruy Lopez in Spain, he asked for his town Cutro to be exonerated of taxes and called Cutro “City of Chess”, where every year this event is remembered in a traditional day in August.
We also handed out some bonus chess homework that reviews how to take Chess notation during a chess game. We ask that each student play a game of chess this weekend and write down the game in Chess notation on the provided notation sheet. Students that turn in the notation sheet with a game written down will get a Chess buck at next week’s meeting. If you did not receive the handout at today’s meeting, you can download and print it at home using this link.
Club Meeting – August 31st
We will be showing this video at tomorrow’s meeting to the Knights, Rooks and Kings:
The Pawns will watch this video:
Reading Chess Books Earns Chess Bucks!
We have new 50 cent Chess bucks that students can earn for checking out and reading chess books from our club library. Here is what the new Chess bucks look like:
Our chess club has a nice library of Chess books that are written to help kids improve their game. Kids can check out these books during Chess club and they have two weeks to read and return them. For some of the books, we have a quick quiz that the student has to fill out to show what they learned from that book.
Upcoming Local Chess Tournament At Meridian World School
The 2018 Meridian Chess Tournament takes place on September 29th and is now open for registration (https://www.
Club Registration is Open
Registration for the 2018-2019 school year opened on August 15th. Please click on the About section above and then click on the Registration link. That page gives all the details on the registration process and a link to the Registration Form. You can also click here to go directly to that page.
Club registration will end on September 14th. After this date, we will no longer accept any new students until the second semester begins in January 2019.
For parents and students that are thinking about joining our club, you can attend our first three club meetings without committing to join. Come to our meetings and see how you like it. We ask that you make your final decision to join by our registration deadline of September 14th.
Spicewood Chess Club at Enchanted Rock
Let’s make this a recurring post. Send us photos of yourself wearing your Chess club tshirt from interesting places and we will post them here for everyone to see.
Great idea Sean and family!
New and returning students meet this week
We had a successful first club meeting last week for our returning students. Thank you to our parent volunteers for making the meeting go smoothly.
This week, we welcome all of our new students to our club meeting. James is preparing to teach the basics of Chess to our beginning students, so don’t worry if you have never played Chess before. This is also good for parents who want to learn how to play. You can watch James’s lesson as well.
Parents, please remember to complete all of the steps required to join the club. You can review the registration requirements by clicking the above pulldown menu under “About” and then choose “Registration” Just follow the six easy steps.
Please make sure to make your checks out to “RRISD Spicewood Elementary Chess Club” and put the name of your student somewhere on the Check so we can properly credit them.
Thank you to all the Door Monitor volunteers. It looks like we have slots filled up for the next 11 meetings!
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