My, how times have changed! The first chess book I worked through was “A Complete Chess Course” by Fred Reinfeld. I just checked www.amazon.com and … it’s still in print, descriptive notation and all! My advice is to avoid it – it is now pretty much obsolete.
How I wish I had “A [...]
The Bear Scholastic Chess Club will be sponsoring a first for Delaware in January. We are holding a junior championship tournament over two Saturdays in January. Participation is by invitation only!! To read more about it, please see: http://bear.delawarechess.org/FSJI.htm
To help you practice and qualify, we are holding a tournament [...]
2005 SUSAN POLGAR GIRLS INVITATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT
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Daily Diary for Alisa Spitelle – Girl’s Representative from Delaware
Saturday, August 6
An exciting week that I have waited for finally begins. I was awakened at 4:00 AM to get ready to take the shuttle to the Philadelphia Airport. Our flight left a few minutes late, but we [...]
Do you want to be more involved in chess in Delaware? Are you interested in being a DCA officer? Any candidates for officer this year should send an e-mail to Ira Riddle (iralee@aol.com) announcing their candidacy and should include a short, positive platform for publication in the August issue of the DCN.
I just received the first issue of Susan Polgar’s free email Scholastic Newsletter. It’s fantastic! When I helped introduce her at the simul in the summer of 2004, I described her as one of the great world champions because of how much she has given back to (American) chess. And she continues [...]
Chess for Vets is a program being sponsored by the USCF (United States Chess Federation) to provide chess sets along with chess instruction and playing to local VA (Veteran Administration) Hospitals. The Bear Scholastic Chess Club was chosen by the USCF to act as the local administrators for the VA hospital in Elsmere, Delaware.
We are [...]
The Charter School of Wilmington brought four chess club members to Salesianum High School on Friday, May 13, 2005 to take on the top 4 Sallies players. The Charter Force took the overall victory on the day by a score of 3 wins to 1 loss after two and a half hours of fighting [...]
On Saturday, May 7, 2005, Jennifer Shahade visited the Bear Library
to give a lecture and simul to 35 Delaware players. “SuperJen” as
she is known, enjoys promoting chess and it showed in her enthusiasm
and radiant smile as she talked about game tactics and strategies with children and adults. After giving a mini-lecture on various [...]
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On Friday, March 11, 2005 the Charter School of Wilmington’s chess club visited St. John the Beloved (SJB) to play against their students. St. John put forth 17 of their 33 club members. These 17 range from 2nd grade through 8th grade and make up their “tournament team.” The names and grade [...]
Wow, Garry Kasparov has had one heck of a day. He lost a drawn game to Topalov, won the overall Linares championship via tiebreaks against the man who had just beaten him and then retired from professional chess. Kasparov did play an outstanding overall tournament and it is a sad day for chess [...]
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