The Children's Storefront: Chess Advisory 2007 - 2008 - 2009 this page last updated: 4/29/09

Voicethread Chess Puzzles

Chess Tip Videos for the Students in Ms. Horwitz and Ms. Pinckney's Third Grade Class

Chess Openings ... click here

• ATB10 ...Scotch game
• CMH10 ... Nimzovitch defense ... click here
• DEW10 ... Indian defense
• KEP09 ... Ruy Lopez ... click here
• HBJ08 ... Caro-Kahn defense
• NTH09 ... Queen's gambit ... click here

Pictures from Harlem Day: 1 | 2 | 3
Video from Harlem Day

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Here are some of the features of the Apple Chess program that is now in the lab on the Macs

• you can turn it into 3D (CMH 10)
• you can change the view of the chess set (ATB 10)
• you can change the color of the chess set (DEW 10)
• it is voice animated and you can change the level so that the computer can be a beginner, intermediate, expert (NTH 09)
• you can play against a human or against the player (KEP 09)
• it allows you to not lose most important pieces automatically and lets you have another chance (CMH 10)

Other Chess Links

• Click here for Chess puzzles from easy to hard
• Click here for a daily chess game
• Click here for more chess puzzles
• Click here for Chess puzzles by ThinkQuest
• Click here for a famous "checkmate in one" puzzle
• Click here for more puzzles
• Click here for a chess tutorial
• Click here for a collection of chess lessons and tutorials
• Click here for Chess Kids Academy!
• Clickhere for one explanation of the Knight's Tour
• Click here for kidchess based in Atlanta ... this includes "play chess online" and "try the knights' tour"
• Click here for Ken Portnoy Videos on "How to Play Chess" ... we now have an account called "storefront" with a password of "send79" .... make sure you click here to go to chessmagnetschool.com where you can login! Your nickname is: Storefront Your password is: send79
• Click http://www.crowdchess.comhere for Crowd Chess
• Click here for Chess in the Schools (from Ms. Cross ... "I have a good friend (Sam's chess coach) Bruce Pandolfini -- he is the coach depicted in Searching for Bobby Fisher by Steven Spielberg"