Always Care!
  • Home
  • Always Care!
    • Betty
    • Memories
    • 2020 Wisconsin State Odyssey of the Mind Tournament
    • 2020 Minnesota State Odyssey of the Mind Tournament
    • Basic Video Game Design >
      • Day 1: Basic Video Game Design
      • Day 2: Basic Video Game Design
      • Day 3: Basic Video Game Design
      • Day 4: Basic Video Game Design
    • Dedications >
      • Game of the World >
        • Othello: Game of the World
        • Snakes: Games of the World
        • Mancala: Game of the World
        • Terni Lapilli: Game of the World
        • Draughts and Variants
        • Shut the Box
        • Games of the World: Backgammon
      • Logic Games >
        • Games of Chance
        • BLOKUS1
        • BLOCKUS: GAMES OF LOGIC
      • The Hero's Journey
      • SPENCE Odyssey of the Mind
      • K-8 HPL Digital Resources >
        • Riverside Kindergarten Riverside Media Technology Challenge
        • Grade 1 Riverside Media Technology Challenge
        • G 2 Riverside Media Technology Challenge
        • G 3 Riverside Media Technology Challenge
        • G 4 Riverside Media Technology Challenge
        • Grade 5 Riverside Media Technology Challenge
      • The Journey
      • This Week in Media 4/8 First Grade
      • Pier Kindergarten Riverside Media Technology Challenge
      • G 1 Pier Media Technology Challenge >
        • Pier First Media Technology Challenge
      • G 2up Pier Media Technology Challenge >
        • G 2 Pier Media Technology Challenge >
          • Grade 2 Media Technology Challenge
      • G 3 Pier Media Technology Challenge >
        • Grade 3 Pier Media Technology Challenge
      • G 4up Pier Media Technology Challenge >
        • G44 Pier Media Technology Challenge
        • G 4 Pier Media Technology Challenge >
          • Grade 4 Pier Media Technology Challenge
      • G 5up Pier Media Technology Challenge >
        • G 5 Pier Media Technology Challenge >
          • Grade 5 Pier Media Technology Challenge
    • Photo and Video Course >
      • Day 1: Video and Photo Course
      • Day 2: Video and Photo Course
      • Day 3: Video and Photo Course
      • Day 4: Video and Photo Course
    • INVENTION CONVENTION >
      • DAY 1: INVENTION CONVENTION
      • DAY 2: INVENTION CONVENTION
      • DAY 3: INVENTION CONVENTION
      • DAY 4: INVENTION CONVENTION
    • Spirit (Inspiration & Character)
    • Athletics, Coaching, & Play >
      • Wautoma Cross Country
      • Fondy Cross Country >
        • Team Meet Schedule
        • Team Workout Schedule!
        • Team Meet Results
        • Drills and Core Exercises
        • Contact Coach Barribeau
        • Goals/Vision
        • Team Paperwork and downloads!
        • Meet the Coaches!
        • Fondy Cross Coaches' Pages
        • Running Inspiration
        • Running Links
        • Summer Running
        • Former Cross Country Page!
        • Fond du Lac Memorial Invitational Cross Country Meet
    • Education and Community
    • STEM >
      • UDL Presentations
  • JaegerBeau Running Team
    • JaegerBeau Form and Stretching Exercises

Chess Resource Page!
Objectives, Lessons, Activities, Tutorials, Inspiration & Tournament Information

Chess Test One:  (Click here!)

Objectives:

WHY CHESS?  (CLICK HERE) (Math)  (LA)
CHESS AND THE COMMON CARE (CLICK HERE)
CHESS IN EDUCATION! (CLICK HERE)
* Improved/increased critical thinking skills
* Advanced math and reading skills
* Improved behavioral and social skills
* Increased self-esteem 
* Students grasp concepts quicker
* Inductive reasoning involves going from a series of specific cases to a general statement.
* Deductive reasoning is a type of logic in which one goes from a general statement to a specific instance

Check out this article and video on the impact of chess! (Link)

Chess Video Lesson of the Day

Fishing Pole / Ry Lopez/ Sicilian 
The Windmill
Deflection
The Yugoslav Attack
Chess Kings

First Annual Fondy Schools Winter 
Classic Chess Tournament!
(Information)

Fondy Chess Opportunities!

FDL CHESS ACTIVITIES:
STEM ACADEMY CHESS TOURNAMENT (INFO)

GET Ready FOR Nationals!: (INFORMATION FLYER)
  • 2014 National Elementary (K-6) Championship
  • Friday, May 09, 2014 - Sunday, May 11, 2014
  • Hilton Anatole Dallas
  • 2201 Stemmons Freeway
  • Dallas, Texas 75207
  • Hosted by US Chess FederationScholastic National Championship in 9 sections for youth in grades 6 and lower.  (GP)

CHESS IN THE SCHOOLS:

  • FONDY CHESS CLASSIC SERIES!  EVENT 1 @ CHEGWIN
  • STEM:  FRIDAY MORNINGS AT 7:15 AM @ STEM
  • CHEGWIN:  TUESDAY MORNINGS AT 7:30
  • ROSENOW:  MONDAYS AT 3:15PM  UNTIL 4:30PM @ ROSENOW

CHESS LESSONS
  • April 3  Key Squares
  • April 7  Sicilian Explained
  • April 11  Chess Tournament Tips
  • April 15  Master Opposition!
  • April 21 Prophylaxis
  • April 21 Deflection
  • May 5 Rules of the Game:  Blitz /  Bughouse
Click to set custom HTML

CHESS IN THE NEWS!!

Picture
STEM ACADEMY CAPTURES 2013 WSCF STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!

FOND DU LAC SCHOLASTIC 
NATIONAL CHESS TRIP
(INFORMATION)

Tournaments
Check out these highly recommended tournaments!

Nov 23   Holiday Folk Fair InternationalWest Allis                                     Map it!         Info      √
 Dec 7        Parkview Middle School Ashwaubenon                            This tournament has been cancelled!
Dec 16     Fondy Schools Winter Classic  @  Chegwin Elementary School        6:00pm to 8:00 pm (Info)
Jan 11  Mt. Olive Lutheran School Chess Tournament  @Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, Appleton      Flyer        Register
Feb 1      Discovery World   Milwaukee                                                        Map it!
Feb 15      Kohler Public Schools   Kolher                                                       Map it!

Feb 22       Wausau East High School                                              Wausau                   Map it!--1√
Mar 1      STEM                          Fond Du Lac                            (Click here for Information)
Apr 12    Wisconsin Class Championships    Kalahari - Wisconsin Dells
May 9    National Elementary (K-6) Championship 5/9-11 - Dallas, TX
June 26   US Open 7/26 - 8/3 - Saint Louis, MO
Dec 12-14   National K-12 Championship 12/12-14 - Orlando, FL


Chess Workouts!
(To learn how to play chess click here and visit Mr. B' Chess World)
Click on the links below for activities and lessons!
BEGINNER HANDOUTS (IN ORDER)
Board  worksheet
Pieces
Rook    worksheet
Bishop    worksheet>
King    worksheet
Queen    worksheet
Knight    worksheet
Pawn    worksheet
Check, Checkmate, or Stalemate?    worksheet
Getting out of check
En Passant
Castling
R+R+K vs K Checkmate     Homework

TACTIC + HANDOUTS (IN ORDER)
 Scholars Mate: ...offense... defense
 Double Attack  ... worksheet
 Q+K vs K Checkmate       Homework
 R+K vs K Checkmate
R+R+K vs K+P              homework
Piece values
Forks
 Skewers
 Pins ...worksheets #1 ... #2
 Discovered Attack ......worksheet...(answers)
 Notation   - Long     - Short
Opening Principles    Coaches Notebook: Opening Analysis    worksheet: 'You be the coach'
 Pawn structures
"What chess Pieces love" worksheet  (answers)

ADDITIONAL HANDOUTS (IN ORDER)
Draws - Tournament Tactics
Rule of the square
P+K vs K (defense)
P+K vs K (offense)
Legall's Mate
 Opening: 1. ...
Opening: 1.d4 ...
Opening: 1.e4 ... (worksheet)                             
"You be the coach" worksheet
Opening: 1.e4 e5 ... (worksheet)                            "You be the coach" worksheet
Opening: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 (worksheet - - answers)   "You be the coach" worksheet
Opening: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc4 (worksheet)
 Opening: Trap! 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5
(worksheet - answers)
 Opening: Opening: Ruy Lopez

Chess Drawing / Analyzing Tool  (Click)

Why Chess?

"The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily."--
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, "The Morals of Chess"


"A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great chess player."  -  Bobby Fischer

"In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once."  -  David Bronstein

"Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself.  I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win... I take this very seriously".  -  Bobby Fischer

Humility in Chess!

Chess Resources
Novels:
THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin (1978)
THE MAGIC MEAN MACHINE by Beatrice Gormley (2010) 


Websites:
Chess Kids (Click here!)
WSCF (Click here!)
USCF  (Click here!)

PBS: POV SPECIAL (Click Here!)
Hand-Outs:
Learning the Game (Click here!)
Puzzles (Click here!)
History  (Click here!)

Tactics / Strategy (Click here)Strategies! Tactics!
(Lesson Plan) (Teaching Link)  (HAND-OUT)
(Introduction to Forks)  (Video)

Strategies! Tactics!
The Fork
(Lesson Plan) (Teaching Link)  (HAND-OUT)
(Introduction to Forks)  (Video)

FEATURED VIDEOS

February 17, 2014 Upload

Learning Tutorials

King's Indian Attack

Roy Lopez Opening

Queen's Gambit

Great Openings

SICILIAN DEFENSE

Kings' Indian Defense

Outpost

FEATURED CHESS VIDEOS!

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.