Lesson #10: Reading a Chess Magazine

Today we went through an article "Tales of The Arabian Knights" by Rick Kennedy in the December 2016 issue of Chess Life Kids. There were several goals:

1. learn from the game
2. review and exercise our chess notation reading
3. learn to learn from resources other than these Thursday chess club meetings

The third goal is important because it's an investment of sorts: you spend a little time up front learning to learn, and then you gain access to a wealth of chess knowledge beyond the tiny lesson or worksheet per week.

If you have a USCF membership you can view the entire magazine here and will receive your own hard copies every two months (6 total throughout one year). I took the liberty to copy the single page and present it below. Hopefully Chess Life will agree that this is serves more as an advertisement than an infringement and not complain to blogger:

And let's not forget that this is a really cool game, with two sacrifices and a beautiful double knight mate at the end!

Official information is available at the Spacecoast Chess website but the information was condensed into a leaflet and sent home with you:

I hope to see you there!