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

News

The Results of our first Comhar Linn Challenge:

June 28, 2020 / Brendan / Uncategorized
Congratulations to the first ever winners of the “Irish Schools Online Chess Championship” .. St. Mary’s BNS, Rathfarnham, Dubllin.

In second place were St. Laurance’s NS, Greystones, Co. Wicklow and in 3rd place were St. Patricks NS, Galway.

These schools were not the only winners. During a time of Covid-19 we all got to learn and play on lichess.org. We really want to thank lichess.org for providing us with a platform that has us enjoying the trills and spills of blitz chess. And many players who practiced daily have become better chess players. There was a massive increase in the standard of play this year.

This year we had 6 sections, and we are delighted announce that we have prizes for the first 3 teams in each of our 6 sections. The top 3 in each section are listed here .. http://movesforlife.ie/comharlinn-challenge/. And for any school team that didn’t finish in the top 3 there is a STAR PLAYER prise for the most improved player on each of those teams. Every school team wins something.

These prizes are being posted to your schools for September. This will allow each school to make presentations to their chess stars and take a picture or two of the school chess team.

Thank You !! to everyone who made this happen, from our brilliant commentary team, the hard working NS teachers, the coaxing coaches, the proud parents, our super sponsors and, of course, to all our young chess stars. Enjoy your holidays and we look forward to more chess adventures with you next year !!

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.

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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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