Chess To Make It's Next Move

Over this past week, the Chess Winterim has spent time learning to play the game of Chess and all of the strategies that go behind it. The group has had times of free-play, where the students play one another in order to improve their skills, and also times of situation instruction, where the students learned strategies that can be used in different scenarios.

Leading some of the chess instruction is a highly rated player who once defeated a former Chess World Champion in a simultaneous exhibition.

Today, the students worked on worksheets that showed different arrangements of the chess pieces. From each of these arrangements, the students had to find the moves to secure checkmate.

Next week, the Chess Winterim will be holding a tournament in which all of the students will play through a bracket until there is one victor. For the competition, the group will be traveling to Harvard Square on Wednesday, March 12.

To see the results of the tournament make sure to check the blog following the competition late next week.