Upcoming Events

Nov 7th & 21st. Friday Night Scholastic Tournament & Parent Date Night, Colley Chess Café - Scholastic Tournament, Pizza, and Cartoons.
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November 22, 2008. Colley's Chess Cafe – Scholastic Beginners Tournament player.
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Step 1 Monday 4:30 - 6:00

All CCC classes follow this structure:
30 min - Chess Lesson
60 min - Rated Tournament Practice/ Game review

CCC currently uses a three pronged approach 

  1. Tournament Play - USCF Tournament G30  To test ones meddle
  2. Review of Chess Games - For focus improvement. Review by local chess expert.
  3. Study Program - For ongoing development. Outlined below

The step-by-step Chess Method Chess instructional tutoring taken to a whole new level developed by the Royal Netherlands Chess Federation (KNSB), and taught with soaring success throughout Europe, the Dutch KNSB Scholastic Chess Course is hailed as "the most innovative chess instructional program in the world” now being taught at CCC. This celebrated chess tutorial system has been taught to students for over 18 years.

KNSB - Step 1
The first step is divided in 15 lessons.
1: Board and pieces
2: Moves of the pieces
3: Attacking and capturing
4: The pawn
5: Defending
6: Check and + getting out of check
7: Mate
8: Mate
9: Castling
10: Profitable exchange
11: Twofold attack
12: Draw
13: Mating with the queen
14: Taking 'en passant'
15: The notation

 
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