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Play Chess online:

All students are welcome to play in our daily events from 3pm to 4.30pm.

And we will have a School Team event starting on Friday, May 15th.

Email us to enter .. mfl@movesforlife.ie

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Moves for Life :

Using chess to educate Irish school children by  supporting teachers and schools.  Moves For Life encourages everyone to play and have fun, and enables teachers to use chess to teach further thinking and social skills. 

 

 

Ficheall le Una

Free download (chess rules) in Irish ..  leabhair-ficheall . And for more ‘As Gealige’ click link ficheall-website

Comhar Linn Challenges

Chess Puzzle Championship:

Puzzle solving improves many elements of thinking skill.

There are trophies to be won for the highest points scorers in each age group. And star player prizes for the top points scorer from each school.  The 10 age groups are from U-8’s up to U-16.

Teachers who want to enter your school please email us at mfl@movesforlife.ie and we will send you a code giving all your students free entry to this event.

Here are two demo videos of how to use the codes to give your students free access.

(1) Free access to Chessossity for Teachers:  video-1

(2) Free access to Chessossity for Students: video-2 

Project – Make your own chess set:

This is a perfect starting point for young kids and those who’ve never played before.

As part of this project we will be holding a craft competition. There are prizes for the best pictures received.  To enter the competition email us at mfl@movesforlife.ie. All pictures are being displayed on our facebook page.

Try our mini-games for beginners are here.  Parents and kids can play n’ learn with these mini-games , each mini-game has a 2 minute how-to video.

Make and do projects:

Above is Isabella’s fantastic Oragami chess set ..

plese send us in a picture of your creation and you could then play a fun mini-game with your family !

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Volunteers

Trustees :

Chairman John McMorrow,   Secretary Colm O’Muireagan,  Treasurer Ronan Sweeney,   Ruth Redmond, Andy Keenan, Gordon Freeman

Working Commettee :

Desmond Beatty, April Cronin, Alice O’Gorman, John Conlon & Brendan Buckley.

 

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