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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

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Puzzle Championship

June 27, 2020 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Teachers we are giving free access to all students who wish to enter this All-Ireland Championship.  There are prizes for the best puzzles solversin every school, plus county & national champions.

Email us at mfl@movesforlife.ie  tell us your names and which school you teach at.  And we will send you a password.  Then follow these how-to videos:

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

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

Students earn points for every puzzle they solve.  The highest points socrers will become national Champions.

Game Analysis:

June 24, 2020 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Here is some game analysis by Brendan from Round 2 ..

The scores are now published on the Comhar-Linn-Chess-Challenge page.

Here is a video from Round 1 with game analysis by Scott & Diana.

Their game analysis highlights the importance of king safety, good development & “sneaky play along diagonals“.

Irish Schools Online Chess Championships 2020

June 23, 2020 / Brendan / Uncategorized

The Finals !!

Friday 26th June 2020 

Players join their event by clicking on their section link below. 

And the league tables are here for each section. The top 3 teams in each section will win prizes & for any teams outside the top three their top player of the event will win a STAR player award.

  • Section  A   Tom –   https://www.twitch.tv/fmtoog
  • Section  B  Henry- https://www.twitch.tv/theyellowdragoo
  • Section  C    Alice – https://www.twitch.tv/alicecogorman/
  • Section D    Scott – https://www.twitch.tv/flyingstapler
  • Section E    Dylan – https://www.twitch.tv/dylankb333/videos
  • Section F    Dylan – https://www.twitch.tv/dylankb333/videos

Commentary starts at 2.45pm on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86553286742

Spectators can watch the LIVE streamers form 3.00pm to 4.30pm and then players and viewer can return to Zoom for game analysis and the Virtual presentation of prizes.

Comhar Linn Chess Challenges:

May 31, 2020 / Brendan / Uncategorized

The Chess-Puzzle competition is in full swing .. teachers and puzzle solvers can view their progress here & continues until the 30th September.

The Online School Team Chess Championship starts this Friday (June 5th). The is a list of participants and league tables here. This is a gran prix event played over four weeks of June 2020.

And we’d love to see your chess art and craft entries for the make your own chess set challenge. There have been some lovely pictures, such as this one by 6 year old Levi.

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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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