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Chess 4 fun:

Make & do project .. Isabella’s oragami chess set, featuring her Dragonfly Rooks and ladybird pawns!

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MFL Mission:

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. 

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Volunteers

Trustees :

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

Working Committee :

Desmond Beatty, April Cronin, Colm OhAonghusa, John Conlon & Brendan Buckley.

 

Ficheall le Una

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

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School Chess Calendar 2020-21:

(1) Teachers Online Chess Club:

  • There are two groups:
  • One for beginners  and another for teachers who can play chess.
  • Monday’s at 8pm.
  • Join anytime from now until May 2021.

 

Email .. mfl @ moves for life . ie

 

 

(2) The ficheall.ie School Chess challenge matches.

Being played in  March / April 2021. Teachers you can register their students here:

ficheall.ie/online-tournaments-for-students/

 

(3) The Comhar Linn Online School Chess Championships:

  • Starting at 6.30pm on Thursday the 22nd of April. .
  • The Grand Final is on Thursday, 13th of May 2021.

Step 1 – just register your students on  lichess.org More dtails to follow on the 14th of April.  

(4) The ficheall.ie summer CPD chess course:

This a 5 day course (4 hours each day), which will be held online this year.

For more details go to: www.ficheall.ie

 

(5) Chess 4 Fun, Teacher evening course:

From October 2020 to March 2021.  These free evening CPD courses will return in October 2021.

These training evenings are given in partnership with the Education Centre network.

 

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  mfl@movesforlife.ie

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