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

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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. 

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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

News

2021 chess finals on zoom

May 12, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Dear Teachers, Parents & Players,

We will hold a zoom call starting at 6.15pm.  Join us at 6.15pm if you need any help joining the right event.

Join Zoom Meeting here & use passcode: 502689

Then, after the games (around 8.15pm) have finished we’ll announce the winners of each section and the grading prizes.

Best of luck !

A short Webinar.

April 18, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

The webinar is on at 8.00 pm, Monday the 19th of April, 2021. For anyone who can’t attend here is a video link with all the key info. below:

The “how to” Video for parents, teachers and students interested in playing in this years Online school chess championships !

Register for the Comhar Linn Online schools chess championships 2021:

March 29, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Students, Parents, Teachers .. registration is now open for this years schools events. Click on the link ..

REGISTER HERE

P.S. please register your students with lichess.org before joining these online schools events!

 This video explains how to get started ..   Parents go to www.lichess.org  and Register your child. 

Then you can join our team : https://lichess.org/team/irish-school-kids-chess-club use the password : ComharLinn

The First practice event is on at 6.30pm , Thursday 22nd of April. With the grand final on the 13th of May 2021.

The Comhar Linn online Schools Chess Championships 2021:

February 23, 2021 / Brendan / Uncategorized

When: The final is on Thursday the 13th of May @ 6.30pm.  In advance of the grand final there will be 3 practice events on April 22nd, 29th and on May 6th.  Students will be put into sections depending on their chess level. All students should play in the practice events to ensure that they get matched against players of similar ability.

Here are the 2021 School Events, with rating bands for National School players:

  1. National schoools – Expert players with a lichess.org rating of 1600 or higher.
  2. National schoools – Intermediate players with a rating over 1200 up to a rating of 1599.
  3. National schoools – Novice and beginner players rated 1199 or lower.
  4. Secondary Schools – all players in one section.

Prizes fund of €1,500.

  1. First place – 10 chess sets AND 5 chess timers for their school, All-Ireland Gold medal.
  2. Second place – 10 chess sets OR 5 chess timers for their school, All-Ireland Silver medal.
  3. Third place – 5 chess sets OR 3 chess timers for their school All-Ireland Bronze medal.

Participation Prizes:

For the schools with the highest number of participating students there will be a prize of 10 chess sets or 5 chess timers for your school chess club.

Grading Prizes:  There will be multiple prize winners in each section.  These will be Medal prizes. Here’s an example of the prizes for the Novice section:

  • Rating band 1:  players rated under 900.
  • Rating band 2:  players rated between 900 and 1000.
  • Rating band 3:  players rated between 1001 and 1100.
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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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