CANADA'S CHESS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS JUNE 2011 number 108 PLAY SILENT, PLAY DEEP CANADIAN CHESS CHALLENGE FRENCH DEFENCE Part 2 SSCCHHOOLLAARR’’SS MMAATTEE HHEELLLLOO IS ON-LLINE !! CHESS Since October 2009, SCHOLAR’S MATE is no longer CHESS printed. But don’t be sad. You can still enjoy Canada’s Chess Magazine For Kids on-line, for free! PPAALLSS!! The Chess’n Math Association continues to publish Scholar’s Mate five times per year as a digital DNL document, a great new format which has the same look as the printed magazine, including pages that actually turn! A printable pdf version of the magazine is also available. You can read the “e-magazine” directly on the CMA webpage or download it to your computer for viewing at any time. Either way, you will need a DNL Reader, which can be quickly downloaded for free at our site. SUNNY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN. www.chess-math.org AND SO IS THE NEW SCHOLAR’S MATE! 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Dates of issue : October 15, Canadian Chess Challenge December 15, February 15, April 15, June 15 Report From Victoria BC Reproduction by any means, mechanical or electronic, is forbidden except by permission of Scholar's Mate. FRENCH DEFENCE Part 2 14 June 2011 (date of issue) ISSN 1923-6441 Kiril’s Klass Legal Deposit National Library of Canada #D373119 How To Defend With 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 PLAY SILENT, PLAY DEEP 40 Hi, friends! Kiril's Korner Scholar’s Mate is now an e-magazine! Anyone can The Continuing Story Of Captain Bemo read it for free on the internet, so there are no more subscriptions. But you will need a free program called How To Read Chess 6 Mate in 2 31 DNL Reader, which is available on our website. Or you can download a PDF version of the magazine. Letters To Kiril 7 Mate in 3 32 Ed & Alec 19 Lily’s Puzzler 33 www.chess-math.org Canada Top Ten 20 News 34 If you have any questions Did You Know? 21 Kiril’s Kontest 38 about the magazine, Summer Camps 22 Kiril’s E-mail 51 please contact us at: Tactics 101 23 Tournaments 52 [email protected] Regional Top 10’s 24 CMA Meeting 52 Top Girls 28 Who’s The Goof? 53 See you Combo Mombo 29 Ratings 54 on-line! Mate in 1 30 Solutions 55 4 Scholar’s Mate 108 Scholar’s Mate 108 5 HOW T O READ A CHESS GAME LETTERS It's easy. The board has 8 files and 8 ranks. Files are the rows 8 rhb1kgn4 of squares that go up and down. 7 0p0pdp0p TO Each one is named by a small 6 wdwdwdwd letter. Ranks are rows that go sideways. Each one is named 5 dwdw0wdw KIRIL by a number. 4 wdwdPdwd Every square also has a name. 3 dwdwdwdw The first part is its file and the My 8 year old son Ethan and I enjoy playing chess second part is its rank. In this 2 P)P)w)P) diagram, a white pawn moved 1 $NGQIBHR together. He was reading the Feb 2011 Scholar’s Mate to e4 and a black pawn to e5. abcdefgh magazine and was quite eager to show me his new When moves are written down, move called a "double whammy", which he learned on the first capital letter shows the Here are some special symbols: page 24 in a "Lilys Puzzler". It allows him to make two piece which moves. Q is queen. + check B is bishop. R is rook. N is used moves at once and for some reason I am not allowed # checkmate for knight because the king is K. to move to defend myself. If there is no capital letter, that e. p. en passant means a pawn moves. O - O castles kingside Is this a legal move under the rules of chess or was Next is the square that the O - O - O castles queenside it simply a puzzle meant to teach critical thinking? piece moves to. Bc4 says that a 1 - 0 white wins I searched far and wide on the Internet for an official bishop moves to the square c4. 0 - 1 black wins rule or guide that shows where you are allowed to When a piece is captured, an x ½ - ½ draw is put before the square. Qxf7 make two moves at once, but couldn't [find anything]. means a queen takes on f7. ! excellent move ... Thanks. If a pawn captures, the letter ? mistake Adam Denny of the file it starts on is given !? cool move Hello Adam, first, then an x followed by the ?! weird (weak) move I'm glad to hear Ethan likes our magazine. square it takes on. exd5 says a pawn on the e-file captures on The game below is written in Lily's Puzzlers are always unusual problems with the square d5. algebraic notation. Kiril was special rules. The double whammies are fun and When two pieces of the same new to chess and fell into an kind can go to the same spot, old trap called Scholar’s Mate! good practice for looking ahead, but unfortunately, another letter is put after the ROCKY KIRIL you can't play two moves in a row in a real game. piece to show what file it came from. Rae1 tells us that a rook 1. e4 e5 It would be great if you could! on the a-file moves to e1. 2. Qh5 d6 Chess composers call this kind of problem a If the pieces that can move to 3. Bc4 Nf6 ? "series mate". Good luck and thanks for writing. the same spot are on the same 4. Qxf7 # file, then their rank number is added. N6e4 means the knight Oh no! Kiril got mated in just Kiril on the 6th rank moves to e4. four moves. That was no fun! [email protected] 6 Scholar’s Mate 108 Scholar’s Mate 108 7 oo AANNAADDIIAANN 22001111 CCHHAAMMPPIIOONNSS oo HHEESSSS 1 BENJAMIN LIN Ontario oo 2 LUKE PULFER British Columbia HHAALLLLEENNGGEE 3 JOSHUA DOKNJAS British Columbia 4 DINNY WANG Ontario TOURNAMENT REPORT FROM THE WEST COAST 5 JASON CAO British Columbia The nationals finals of the 23rd annual Canadian Chess Challenge were held on Victoria Day weekend 6 JOHN DOKNJAS British Columbia at the University of Victoria. It was the first time the 7 ADAM DORRANCE **** Nova Scotia tournament was ever held in British Columbia. 8 CHRISTOPHER KNOX ****** Ontario The event was wonderfully organized by the Victoria 9 JOEY QIN Ontario Junior Chess Society, with significant sponsorship by Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Lawtons Drugs, Royal Bank 10 DAVID ZHANG Alberta of Canada, and the B.C. government. 11 MICHAEL KLEINMAN ** Ontario There were lots of fun activities for the players and 12 LLOYD MAI ******* Ontario their families on Friday and Saturday, including whale previous national champion watching boat rides, sand castle building contests, * and a barbecue at Willows Beach. The outdoor blitz tournament, which attracted 90 players, was won by British Columbia, led by World Under 10 Champion David Zhang (Calgary). Jason Cao (Victoria), had a great year, placing second The actual chess championship began on Sunday and winning four gold medals. In round 1, the home morning. As always, a bagpiper played as the teams team showed everyone just how tough they were by marched into the hall, carrying their provincial flags. beating Quebec 9½-2½. The battle for first place was After the national anthem, sung by Don MacKinnon of then decided in round 8, when B.C. lost to Ontario by Saskatchewan, the first pawn stepped forward. the narrowest of margins, 6½-5½. One more point and When the last move was made on Monday afternoon, they would have won the match and finished first! Team Ontario had captured first place, winning all of Team Alberta came a strong third, taking home four their matches and earning six gold medals. For grade medals, with a gold for David Zhang (grade 10). They 12 student Lloyd Mai (Ottawa), it was the eighth time won their round 2 match with Quebec 6½-5½, but lost that he placed first in his grade, tying the record set in the final round 7½-4½ against their old rival B.C. by Lefong Hua (Montreal). But the record may not last By the way, the prizes at the nationals are trophies, for long. Eighth grader Christopher Knox (Toronto) just as you can see in the photo on page 11. We just talk won his seventh title! as if they are medals, like at the Olympics! 8 Scholar’s Mate 108 Scholar’s Mate 108 9 match individual 2011 TEAMS ONTARIO 9 89 BRITISH COLUMBIA 8 82½ ALBERTA 7 71 QUEBEC 6 73½ MANITOBA 5 57½ SASKATCHEWAN 4 49½ NEWFOUNDLAND 3 42½ NEW BRUNSWICK 2 35 NOVA SCOTIA 1 24½ PRINCE EDWARD IS.