Join us for Chess Clinic on Saturdays, 10:00-11:00AM, beginning Sept 7th. Instructor Simon Rudowski is a chess expert, active tournament player, chess writer and organizer. Among his competitive achievements the most recent ones include winning money prizes at the Empire City Open and at the prestigious Fide Monday tournaments at the Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan. Since the 2009/10 season he has held the role of captain and coach of the BTL chess team competing in New York's Commercial Chess League, currently runners-up in the highest division of the league."

Classes will cover the following topics:

• The board:
• • Geometry
  • Coordinates
  • Color complexes on it
  • Understand why it is important to master the visualization.
• The pieces:
• • How they move.
  • Identify how pieces are efficient and how they are not
  • How to improve efficiency of your pieces.
  • How to limit danger from your opponent's pieces.
• Purpose of a game (winning by checkmate)
• • Lots of patterns to achieve it.
  • How it should always be on their mind as the final goal.
• Before checkmate:
• • How do we get there?
  • Overview of different stages of the game- opening, middle game, end game.
• Master the Game:
• • Applying strategies during chess matches.
• Competition:
• • How to win and how to lose gracefully without tears.
• Importance of cooperation & teamwork: not just in chess but on how this can be translated into other areas of life.