The Chess Parent, September 2008

Text Box: October Tournaments 03 Diversity Fall League—San Marino, CA. See the Fall Recreation Brochure for details. 04 CYCL am/pm (non-rated) - Valencia, CA. Email Coach Jay at coachjay@cycl.org 05 LACC September Scholastic—Los Angeles., CA Email Mick@LAChessClub.com or call 310-795-5710 05 Chess Palace 18th Anniversary—Garden Grove, CA. See Chess Palace for details. 12 Westwood Fall Open—Los Angeles, CA 19 HCA #15—Huntington Beach, CA. Email Joe Hanley at refchess@gmail.com 19 Chess Union Octo-Action—Colton, CA. Call 951-990-7990 19 LACC Scholastic—Los Angeles., CA Email Mick@LAChessClub.com or call 310-795-5710 25 Sequoia Chess for Kids—Reedley, CA. Email sequioachess@sbcglobal.net or call 559-734-2784 or 559-967-3379 26 Diversity Fall Scholastics—Arcadia, CA. Call Roel at 626-8181-0671 or email roel@diversityeducationalcenter.com 31 Los Angeles Open—Los Angeles, CA. See the Chess Palace and L.A. Chess Club websites for their weekly events.

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Tips

A good way to prevent blunders is to have good visualization skills. As I just learned recently from another chess player/parent, the idea behind this is if a player can have a good picture of the board in his or her head, then he or she won’t hang pieces or miss good moves.

Playing blindfold chess is a good way to develop visualization skills. Certain chess software have drills that require you to memorize positions.. Those are also great.

Parent’s Corner

Children often make their own decision to follow in their parents’ footsteps. My theory is that if you want your child to take up the same interests or profession, all you have to do is expose your child to it and everything will follow naturally. Here are some of our more popular parent/child(ren) combos.

Jay/Jackson Stallings: Avg rating: 1662

Armen/Michael/Artiom Ambartsoumian: 1736

Ben/Sarah/Queena Deng: 1891

Jerry/Michael Yee: 1973

Nshan/Haruth Keshishian: 2128

Susan/Tom/Leeam Polgar: 1677

Now, wouldn’t that make for an awesome a bughouse tournament? ;)

Character Counts

Read Michael Josephson’s commentaries on:

http://www.charactercounts.org/knxtoc.htm