Youth Chess
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Youth Chess with Mr. Garrison 7 weeks. Mr. Garrison has been teaching chess to children since 1996. His teams have won numerous state championships. King Elementary School has won the state K-5 team championships four years in a row (2008-11). Thurston Elementary School earned 2nd in the state in 2011. Clague won the state K-6 championship in 2012. Mr. Garrison holds the #1 rank of overall game player (out of over 25,000 players) at www.littlegolem.net, an international thinking games website. He is also the top ranked player in the world at the strategy game “Breakthrough”; one of his long-time chess students is ranked #2! BEGINNING LEVEL 1: Grades K-6. No experience necessary. Students will learn opening strategies and important ending techniques and be introduced to the basic tactics (fork, pin, discovery). BEGINNING LEVEL 2: Grades K-8. Students learn how to attack the king, how to use combinations, defensive ideas and more tactics and endings. Introduction to chess clocks and scorekeeping. BEGINNING/INTERMEDIATE: Grades K-8. For students with no or some experience in chess. Students are introduced to the basic history of chess, opening principles, tactics, basic endgame techniques, and tournament preparedness. INTERMEDIATE: Grades K-9. For students familiar with forks, pins, discovery and checkmate. Students are prepared for tournament play and learn some of the finer points of chess. INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED: Grades K-9. For students familiar with forks, pins, discovery and understand checkmate. Players review Grandmaster chess games and improve work on tactics and endings. ADVANCED: Grades K-9. For truly advanced players with an established USCF rating. Players will learn how to analyze games and become skilled at the finer points of chess opening theory. Students will learn how to study chess for self improvement.
Morning Chess
FEE: $99
CLASS ID#
CLASS LEVEL
DAY
TIME
DATES
LOCATION
1317.601
Intermediate/Advanced
Tuesday
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM
2/5 –3/26
King, Multipurpose Room
1317.602
Beginning/Intermediate
Wednesday
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM
2/6 – 3/27
Bach, Media Center
1317.603
Beginning/Intermediate
Friday
7:45 AM – 8:45 AM
2/8 – 4/12
Thurston, Media Center
Evening Chess
FEE: $99
CLASS ID#
CLASS LEVEL
DAY
TIME
1317.604
Beginning Level 1
Tuesday
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM 2/5 – 3/26
King, Multipurpose Room
1317.605
Advanced
Tuesday
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM 2/5 – 3/26
Thurston, Art Room
1317.606
Beginning Level 2
Thursday
5:30 PM – 6:45 PM 2/7 – 3/28
Logan, Art Room
1317.607
Intermediate/Advanced
Thursday
7:00 PM – 8:15 PM 2/7 – 3/28
Logan, Art Room
1317.608
Intermediate/Advanced
Friday
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM 2/8 – 4/12
Lawton, Media Center
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