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Dragons Chess
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Hello Chess Champions!
With the increasing popularity of chess, our Concordian Dragons Chess Club seeks to invite people from all ranges to come, learn, and have fun during our weekly meetings. Over the past year, we have worked to help people from our high school acclimatize to the various openings, mid-games, and endgames. Whether club members are playing a 1 versus 10 simuls game against Ninja, learning the basics through our tutoring, or simply playing in our round-robin tournaments, we all have fun whilst simultaneously improving at chess. Our Dragons Chess team is on a roll. I think it is time we reclaimed chess as a game for older children, most younger children will, to be honest, gain more benefit from playing simpler games. And, with an enormous amount of instructional material available online, much of it free, along with websites where you can play chess whenever you want and technology which will analyze your game and help you improve, it has never been easier for secondary schools to promote chess excellence.
We hosted the Concordian Intramural Chess Tournament on Jan 13th 2024 for categories from Grade 1 to Grade 12. All students played serious chess and are eagerly looking forward to upcoming tournaments. More students are joining the chess club every year. This continuous increase in chess participants is encouraging, so we purchased 60 more international chess sets and 60 more digital chess clocks for all of our chess club members to get tournament style practice. We are really looking forward to our annual Dragons Invitational in May. 1 58
Dragons Chess Team
CONCORDIAN IMPACT - ISSUE 39