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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

Equipment

Chess Equipment:

(1) Bulk orders at wholesale prices.  Thanks to www.icu.ie we can offer schools who order 10 chess sets (or more) a rate of €7.50 +P&P per chess set. That’s on €75 for 10 tournament standard chess sets plus post and packaging.   Emails us at mfl@movesforlife.ie.

(2)  Irish Supplier :   Mr. John Alfred.  Based in Limerick, and distributes nationally .. click on this link ChessZ.  Email before ordering online  .. chessadare@yahoo.co.uk   John also runs school chess competitions, details on his web page.

(3)  Alternative Supplier : Regency Chess supplies offer a discount of 10% for Irish schools (organised by www.ficheall.ie , using the code “ficheall”). Click RegencyChess to find out more.  Email – schools@regencychess.co.uk

Join Other Irish School Teachers :

Ficheall.ie is a network of primary teachers in Ireland promoting chess in their schools. Ficheall.ie provide resources and support to any teacher who wishes to introduce chess to their school either as a classroom activity or after-school club. Ficheall.ie also organises fun, team-based, one-day chess tournaments where enough chess-promoting schools exist in an area.

Irish Chess Union (ICU) :

Organise “rated” chess events in Ireland. These are for higher level tournaments.  The top Irish Juniors are given the opportunity to play for Ireland in International events.  Click ICU and select the “Juniors page” for details of National events.

The ICU are registered members of FIDE (world chess governing body) and they have some free chess books and educational material here.

Chess Newsletters:

First Rank newsletter – is a British publication, focus on chess in education across Europe.  There is a useful archive of topics here.

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Moves for Life :

Using chess to educate Irish school children by  supporting teachers and schools.  Through playing mini-games  students develop ..  social-emotional and intellectual skills. We organise events to enable chess playing schools to connect and facilitate in chess at a higher level.  Moves For Life encourages everyone to play and have fun, and enables teachers to use chess to teach further thinking and social skills. 

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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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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