Tonight we looked at the subject of Rook and pawn endings explaining how to win positions using the Lucena method but also showing how to draw similar endings using the Philidor position, sit tight defence and the Lasker short side method.
Tonight we looked at a couple of William's games from last week's rapidplay match at Chorlton.
The key learning points were to constantly assess the position each move and very importantly slow down in your play and work out which pieces to exchange and when.
Tonight we looked at a couple of my games featuring how important pawn breaks are in chess.
We looked at the game between Disalna and Ved explaining some key learning points to the group. Prior to that we looked at some tactics involving in between moves and desperados. The evening finished off with more competitive games in our ladder competition.
Tonight we looked at Vehant and Ben's game from the Ladder competition.
It emphasised the need for King safety, transpositions from other openings and also to know when to break the rules.
Tonight we looked at a brilliant game by the American, Harry Pillsbury, who took the chess world by storm when he won the 1895 Hastings Congress finishing ahead of 2 World Champions.
Tonight I showed 3 games from the thought to be, boring Petroff defence.
Tonight we looked at the game Spielmann v Flamberg which was an objective lesson in how to and how to not handle the opening.
Tonight I had a night off watching City in the Champions League, Pete and Paul held the fort brilliantly as always.
Our winning run of League matches stretched to 13 with a victory over Bolton.
Tonight we looked at a modern game featuring an opening that was invented over 100 years ago, the Colle system.
For those club players who prefer to put off the tactical exchange until later it's a perfect Shield opening with some added venom.
Tonight we looked at some puzzles from Jeff Coakley's excellent book "Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids" and followed this up with looking at some of the players recent ladder games.