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

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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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Ficheall le Una

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

News

Secondary School Challenge Matches – March 2022

February 23, 2022 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Platform:  www.lichess.org  

Schedule:

Round 1 –  Played on Tuesday 8th March @ 14.30pm  to 15.30pm. Results are on these links (1) challengers section here and the novice section here.

Round 2 – Tuesday 15th March @ 10.00am to 11.00am. Click (1) Novice or (2) Challengers to see the results from round 2.

Round 3 – Tuesday 22nd March @ 14.30pm to 15.30pm. Players can join the events by clicking on their section: (1) Novice or (2) Challengers.

To register or for more email brendan@chessossity.com

Secondary Schools Online Chrismas Chess Blitz!

November 2, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Platform:  www.lichess.org  

Congratulations to all the schools who participated in this years schools Christmas Blitz. The results for each school can be seen in these links:

https://lichess.org/tournament/QDV6QOLJ

https://lichess.org/tournament/xbBa6QJ2

Teacher CPD Courses, Summer 2021:

May 26, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Summer courses organised by ficheall.ie

Dear teachers and principals,
Practice chess as your summer course this July and earn 3 EPV days!
Chess for Social Skills Summer Course 2021
We are pleased to inform you that a chess summer course is available this July. The course, Chess for Social Skills, is sanctioned by the DES for 3 EPV days. 

  • The course will be delivered online through Zoom and the Lichess.org chess platform with the majority of the 20-hour course being spent playing chess and chess mini-games with other interested teachers and principals. 
  • The course will be hosted over five days on Thurs 1st July, Fri 2nd July, Mon 5th July, Tues 6th July and Wed 7th July from 9.30am to 2pm similar to a traditional face-to-face course. 
  • All courses are delivered by practicing primary school teachers and principals with experience of leading chess in their school through the Ficheall network of primary school teachers promoting chess.
  • The course will include a series of chess mini games to teach chess which also addresses explicit objectives of the SPHE curriculum from 1st to 6th class. 
  • The course will also deal with the practicalities of organising chess leagues and tournaments in schools. 
  • Crucially, the course will give teachers hours of chess practice and will even include a fun team-based chess tournament among all teachers on Day 5 of the course. 
  • Each course has a limit of 16 participants to ensure more individual support.
  • The course is available through 22 education centres with 360 places available but are filling up fast! 
  • It’s best to book with your local education centre so that you can network with other interested teachers in your region but, as the course is online, teachers and principals are welcome to sign up for any course they wish.

For more information on the course and links to register, click on the link below:Chess for Social Skills Summer Course 2021

Results of the schools chess championships 2021:

May 13, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

622 students played in this years online school chess finals. And below is a list of the winners (prizes will be posted to their schools). We will email winners to confirm their school postal address & their choice of chess equipment.

  • National Schools – Advanced players Section. In 1st place .. JasonLiu02 , 2nd Mountbellew , 3rd aiChess2011.
  • National Schools – Intermediate players Section. In 1st place .. JojoCrispyBacon , 2nd MaxMurphy , 3rd PawnMasterChess.
  • National Schools – Novice players Section. In 1st place .. Luke1305 , 2nd vivaanverlekar , 3rd KD2021sixthclass.
  • Secondary Schools – Advanced players Section. In 1st place .. Adamc2005 , 2nd Oisinc , 3rd Grandmasterjunior.
  • Secondary Schools – Intermediate players Section. In 1st place .. evoman , 2nd Ernest326 , 3rd maxis29.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 700 = Diyarajeev2021.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 800 = sivani09.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 900 = TadhgR.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1000 = LukeGKNS.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1100 = RoryHeffernan.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1200 = Thomas_Lowry.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1300 = Buyantur1.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1400 = Eoin_Schmidt.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1600 = Elias_Faustino.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1700 = MilnerMane.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1800 = PikaMcC.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 1900 = Ninja5000.
  • National Schools – lichess rating under 2000 = JediKnight8.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 700 = masterunitato.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 800 = EmmaNevin.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 900 = Geniusshy.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1000 = murtaza007.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1100 = Eoin_Kelly.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1200 = GinnMcPartlin.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1400 = GlenMoore0.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1500 = SeanB45.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1600 = clynch4.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1700 = cathal05.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1800 = the_blu_knight.
  • Secondary School: lichess rating under 1900 = p2munster.

We will update this post later with players names and their school .. for now all we have are the lichess usernames !

Thanks to everyone who make this happen and to the players .. we hope you enjoyed the chess games.

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Play for Ukraine:

A positive way for Irish kids to help Ukrainian refugees who are arriving in Ireland.

Our chosen charity  is the Assoc. of Ukrainians in Ireland (click here for more info AURI).

Please contact a school or club in your community and ask them to host an event where kids can mix and play sports / games.

To donate go to our GoFundMe page.

 

Thanks for your support!

 

 

 

Chess 4 Fun, Teacher evening course:

From October 2021 to March 2022.  They are free evening CPD courses.

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

 

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