Teaching chess close to Purim is nice, sometimes the kids have costumes and sometimes the pieces do. Purim is a celebration where people wear costumes as in Halloween but for a different reason. About the knight, in Hebrew we say that a knight t...
הדבורה שתמיד מפסידה בשחמט דב הזמין את דבורה למשחק דבורה שחמט בחרה .ואת הכלים סדרה לחצו ידים והדבורה עקצה .לבנים מתחילים צעקה וצדקה דב שקט בבקשה לחקש ואחרי כמה מסעים עם כלים כאים .מט נתן דבורה התרגלה להפסיד דבש לדב הייתה מביאה .כדי לה...
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I joined my friend NA Gaspar García, the Chesskid´s Spanish director WIM Ivette García and 4 of my students in Israel in this first friendly tournament between Mexico and Israel. 8 players, 4 from Mexico and 4 from Israel played a five-round Swi...
Chesskid in Spanish showed this new resource that is still not in English but will be soon for playing, learning, teaching, and doing puzzles. If you are a trainer, educator, parent, or kid, you should play this board game about chess. It was hila...
So ChessyMesssy from India interviewed me for his Real Talk: Interviews with chess enthusiasts corner. You can read the full interview in the following link:https://www.chess.com/blog/ChessyMesssy/real-talk-interview-with-petasnym?fbclid=IwAR3b9qf...
I´m new in this Blogging about chess but not new to blogging. The idea of the blog is to share some ideas of how to teach scholars, share and discuss and make a better experience and class. My most viewed post has 110 views: https://www.chess....
So the school year is almost over, chess school tournaments, friendly games, and still some kids who capture the king or don't remember how to move the pieces... Thinking for the following year's first class, using the board. Learning letters, nu...
In Purim the jewish use to use a costume, it is easy to explain that is a holiday like Halloween but it isn't. So one of my students decide that the rook can use a costume too. How we should call to this costume rook?
March is the Women's month, Usually i explained to my students that there was a Chess GM who said computers and chess don't know how to play chess, then he lost to both of them. I started watching The Leadership Workshop Women and Chess that also...
There different opinions about how someone can learn chess for the first time, Once i used to teach pawns first but i realized that it is a little confuse for some young kids to go forward and take diagonal so i only teach first pawns if i follo...
So i wan't to start learning about chess. What i should do? First you need to learn about the board, how to set the chess pieces. Pawns on 2 and 7, Rooks on a1, a8, h1 and h8, Knights (no horses) on b1, b8, g1 and g8, Bishops on c1, c8, f1 and f...
Touch and Move unless you say in french j´adoube, compongo in spanish, אני מסדר בעברית. This is one difference between OTB (Over The Board) to Online chess, When you are sitting across the board against an human he/she can force you to move a p...
I´m happy to share with you that Chesskid continue growing and now is in Israel too.If you are under the age of 14, want to learn and explore the amazing world of chess you can use the coupon israel2023 to earn a good discount. https://www.chessk...
Well, Sangbagging, we expect for a player to do his best, when he lose not doing his best is sandbagging but it need to be intentional so in this way he lose Elo points to player against lower ranking players and be the best winning them. If i´m ...
I´m checking e-mails, more than 3 thousand when i find this curious image. Basically first was a website and then a question in quora.com but i find it after reading the why we should have eagle eyes. The pieces are inside the ring as shown in the...
Well, after teaching checkmate and castling i´m trying to let the kids play more one against the other. I decided to do a kick out tournament, basically if you win you continue if you lose you will go to the second tournament and if you tie, basic...
Well, for chess in schools i don't teach more advanced stuff like en passant unless kids are good chess players. Maybe the following classes we will develop pieces, learn more about the center. This week the concept is Castling, why to do it? to ...
After the Queen and King checkmate and 2 rooks checkmate, there is a new checkmate pattern to learn with my students. King and Rook checkmate. Basically the Black King needs to be in a corner at a column or file doesn't matter. The white king need...
After learning how to checkmate with a queen, my class will learn how to checkmate with 2 rooks. I know it can be done by two moves but first i want my students to learn the technical. Each rook need to close another rank till the King is chec...
7 am, I'm traveling to Tzur Hadasa, second year, i teach six classes, around 70 kids, they know how to checkmate with a queen, today I'm doing rook checkmate all week. Gonna share new ideas if they come.
Hello, this is my first post in the blog. I have a hebrew blog in schajmati.blogspot.com If you want to play against me or chat in english, hebrew or spanish you are welcom to pm me.
