August meetings

August Leader Jim Hereford  293-3999                                  nightly leader

Aug 5         meeting    Cumberland Room CC          _______James Hereford__________

Aug 12       meeting    Cumberland Room CC          _______James Hereford__________

Aug 19       meeting    Cumberland Room CC          _______Tammi Blalock___________

Aug 26       meeting    Cumberland Room CC          _______Jenny Holcomb__________

Position #4

August 12 column exercises

Double rook type checkmates

 

XABCDEFGHY

8-+-+-+-+(

7+-+-+-+-'

6-+-+-+-+&

5+-+k+-+-%

4-tR-+-+-+$

3wQ-+-+-+-#

2-+-+-+-+"

1+-+-+-mK-!

xabcdefghy

 

1.  White to move and checkmate in 4 moves.  Notice that first the rook hems the king into the upper 4 rows, then the queen pushes the black king back off of the fifth row (counting from the bottom), then the queen hems the black king into three rows and the rook pushes him back.  The active piece is the one holding the black king back and the inactive piece is the one White wants to move.  This is an example of using your inactive pieces.

 

 

 

 

XABCDEFGHY

8-+-+-+-+(

7+-+-+-+-'

6-+-+-+-+&

5+-+-+-+-%

4-+-+k+-+$

3+R+-+-+-#

2-+-+-+-+"

1tR-+-+-mK-!

xabcdefghy

2.  White to move and checkmate more than 4 moves.  The reason is that the Black king should attack the rooks and the rooks will have to move from the left side to the right to the left.  Notice again that the active rook hems the king into the upper part of the board and the inactive one is the piece  that moves to push the black king toward the top of the board. 

Queen type checkmates

XABCDEFGHY
8-+k+-+-+(
7+p+-+-+-'
6p+-zP-sNl+&
5wQ-+-+-+-%
4-+-wq-+-+$
3+-+-+-zPn#
2-+-+-+-zP"
1+-+-+K+-!
xabcdefghy

Whichever player moves first wins.

 Notice that the pattern involves the king being against the edge of the board and is directly between the queen and the edge of the board.  The only thing left is that the queen be protected and not subject to capture.

 

XABCDEFGHY

8-+k+-+-+(

7+p+-+-+-'

6p+-z+-s+l+&

5wQ-+-+-+-%

4-+-wq-+N+$

3+-+-+-zPn#

2-+-+-+-zP"

1+-+-+K+-!

xabcdefghy

Notice that in this position there is no one move checkmate for either player.

 

 

Rules of chess

To see how each piece moves go to the rules of chess.

2013 Murray Calloway County Chess Championships

The Mur-Cal Chess Club hosted the 2013 County Championship Chess Championships on Saturday, August 3, 2013 at the Calloway County Public Library. The tournament attracted students from the Murray and Calloway systems as well as home schooled students.  Student awards were based on 2012-13 grade levels.

Nickolas Holcomb (2-0-2) successfully defended his title as the Primary (K-3) Champion.  Mason Lu (2-0-2) edged out the defending champion, Liam Hereford, for the Elementary (K-5) Title , Samuel Lewis (3-0-1) was a full point ahead of all other K-8 students and won the Middle School title.  Benjamen Thome (3-0-1) is the new High School Champion. 

The title of Challenger was won by Wayne Bell and consequently he will play a 4 game match with Josiah Hereford, the current champion, for the title of 2013 County Champion. 

Part of that match will be played at the Mur-Cal Chess Club which meets at the Curris Center on Mondays at 5-7 PM.  For a list of past County Champions see the Mur-Cal Chess Club website http://mur-calchess.blogspot.com/ .  For more information call Wayne Bell at 270-293-7675.

July leader

The group leader on July 29  will be Tammy Blalock.

2013 County Championships

2013 Murray Calloway County Chess Championships

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Open to Calloway County residents adults and children.

The Mur-Cal Chess Club will host the county championship chess tournament on Saturday, August 3, 2013 at the Calloway County Public Library. Registration will begin at 10:00 and end at 10:30.  Each player will have 30 minutes for each game for a total of 60 minutes for each game. The first round will begin at 10:30, the second round will begin at 12 noon and subsequent rounds ASAP.  This is not a knock-out tournament -- everyone plays each round.  The event will end at or before 4:00.

Trophies will be given in each category to the county scholastic champions (K-3, K-5, K-8, K-12 – grade level as of 2012-2013 school year) and the tournament winner.  The tournament winner will become the challenger and play a match with the current county champion, Josiah Hereford, the winner of that match will be the will be the (overall) County Champion and receive $100. 

          All students who were in kindergarten through 12^th grade last school year are invited to participate.  If there are sufficient entries, then there will be a separate section for younger players.  No memberships are required.  There is a $5 entry fee. 

          For more information, please visit the Mur-Cal Chess Club blog at http://mur-calchess.blogspot.com/ or call Dr. Wayne Bell at 270-293-7675.