09/06/2026
Everyone loved today's tactical lesson on Forks!
Aside from the excitement of the fire alarm going off I think today was one of my favourite session.
We started off with some sheets, kindly provided by Sarah Hegarty Chess and ALL of our children managed to complete the first 2/3 sheets with 4 of our players managing to complete all 4 of the sheets.
I love the little competitions they have to try and be the first to CORRECTLY complete the sheets to win extra prizes 😁 (they all get prizes!)
Some of those puzzles took ME some time to complete and we still don't know if they were correct 😅 but it was a great conversation with all of the children, listening to their ideas and talking them through.
It's such a pleasure seeing how much our children are improving week by week 💙
We then played some friendlies and our players set up some puzzles from a book onto the demo board for everyone to work out.
Well done everyone, I'm so proud of you all 👏
In addition - my daughter has FINALLY become interested in chess.
She became home educated after Easter and has been attending our home ed chess club each week. She's got so much chess knowledge after years of being dragged around to different clubs that I've taught at. But so little experience, that she makes lots of blunders and mistakes, so she was losing most of her games, even against new beginners, so she decided it was time to put in some work.
Over the last few weeks, she has got the chess board out as soon as we got home from Chess club and it was wonderful to see how much she has improved over the last few weeks of one to one sessions as well as lots of games at our club.
Today she managed to win a few games and gave one of our best players a good game too 🌟
I'm excited to see her improve over the next few months 😍
I do have space for private sessions - please message me for more info ♟️
