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SCHOLAR's MATE 3423 St CANADA'S CHESS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS DECEMBER 2012 number 115 PIECE ON EARTH REASONS TO UNDERPROMOTE THE TALE OF THE DUST BUNNY HHEELLLLOO CCHHEESSSS PPAALLSS!! SSCCHHOOLLAARR’’SS MMAATTEE SCHOLAR’S MATE is Canada’s Chess Magazine For Kids. You can enjoy it on-line, for free! The Chess’n Math Association publishes Scholar’s 3 Mate five times per year as a DNL document. It has the same look as a real 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. HAPPY NEW YEAR! www.chess-math.org The Scholar’s Mate crew wishes you all lots of If you have any questions about the e-magazine, fun and success at chess in 2013. please contact us at: Congratulations to all the Canadians who took [email protected] part in the World Youth Championships last month in Maribor, Slovenia. Especially to Richard Wang of Edmonton, who brought home the bronze medal in the under 14 section. And three cheers for Aman Hambleton too. The twenty year old student from Ottawa is Canada’s newest International Master. Hip, hop, hurray! We had 35 entries for October’s WOW contest. The winner of the deluxe chess set is announced by Mort and Marley on page 15. Here’s the mag, Kiril 2 Scholar’s Mate 115 Scholar’s Mate 115 3 SCHOLAR’S MATE SCHOLAR'S MATE 3423 St. Denis #400 DECEMBER 2012 #115 Montreal, Quebec H2X 3L2 EDITOR Jeff Coakley Illustrator Antoine Duff CONTENTSCONTENTS Scholar's Mate is published five times per year by the REASONS TO UNDERPROMOTE 9 Chess’n Math Association. Dates of issue : October 15, Kiril’s Klass December 15, February 15, April 15, June 15 What’s Better Than A New Queen? Reproduction by any means, mechanical or electronic, is forbidden except by permission of Scholar's Mate. WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP 31 December 2012 (date of issue) Canada And World News Two Canadians In Top Ten THE TALE OF THE DUST BUNNY 36 Hi, friends! Kiril's Korner Scholar’s Mate is now an e-magazine! Anyone can Life Behind The Sofa read it for free on the internet, so there are no more subscriptions. But you will need a free program called Front Cover 1 Combo Mombo 25 DNL Reader, which is available on our website. Or You Are Here! 5 Mate in 1 26 you can download a PDF version of the magazine. How To Read Chess 6 Mate in 2 27 www.chess-math.org Letters To Kiril 7 Mate in 3 28 Kiril’s Address 8 Lily’s Puzzler 29 If you have any questions about the magazine, Mort and Marley 15 News 30 please contact us at: WOW Contest 15 Kiril’s Kontest 34 Holiday Camps 16 WYCC Results 45 [email protected] Master Profile 17 Chess Challenge 46 Canada Top Ten 18 Who’s The Goof? 47 See you Tactics 101 19 Tournaments 48 on-line! Regional Top 10’s 20 Ratings 50 Top Girls 24 Solutions 51 4 Scholar’s Mate 115 Scholar’s Mate 115 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 Hello Kiril the Pawn! 2 P)P)w)P) second part is its rank. In this I really like your mags, because there are lots of diagram, a white pawn moved 1 $NGQIBHR to e4 and a black pawn to e5. interesting puzzles, like Who's the Goof, Kiril's Klass, abcdefgh When moves are written down, and the stories like Kiril's Korner & The Invisible Pawn the first capital letter shows the Here are some special symbols: (I've read that one). But in the new issue (#114), I've piece which moves. Q is queen. + check B is bishop. R is rook. N is used always wondered: how can we solve the puzzles in Lily's # checkmate for knight because the king is K. Puzzler if we didn't know what the last move was? e. p. en passant If there is no capital letter, that My most popular tournament is Oriole Chess. My means a pawn moves. O - O castles kingside Next is the square that the O - O - O castles queenside new rating is 910. Are you a grandmaster? piece moves to. Bc4 says that a 1 - 0 white wins Your favorite reader, bishop moves to the square c4. 0 - 1 black wins Thomas Wang When a piece is captured, an x ½ - ½ draw Toronto, Ontario is put before the square. Qxf7 means a queen takes on f7. ! excellent move Hi Thomas, If a pawn captures, the letter ? mistake It’s really great to hear from my of the file it starts on is given !? cool move first, then an x followed by the ?! weird (weak) move favourite reader! I’m glad you enjoy square it takes on. exd5 says a the magazine. pawn on the e-file captures on The game below is written in the square d5. algebraic notation. Kiril was The "retractor mates" in Lily's Puzzlers were quite When two pieces of the same new to chess and fell into an tricky. Figuring out which move White just made is kind can go to the same spot, old trap called Scholar’s Mate! another letter is put after the part of the puzzle. There is only one move which ROCKY KIRIL piece to show what file it came can be taken back that allows a mate in 1. from. Rae1 tells us that a rook 1. e4 e5 on the a-file moves to e1. 2. Qh5 d6 My friend Spud Potatowoski is a grandmaster, If the pieces that can move to 3. Bc4 Nf6 ? but not me. I’m just a pawn who likes to play chess. the same spot are on the same 4. Qxf7 # file, then their rank number is Say hi to all my pals at the Oriole Chess Club. added. N6e4 means the knight Oh no! Kiril got mated in just on the 6th rank moves to e4. four moves. That was no fun! Kiril 6 Scholar’s Mate 115 Scholar’s Mate 115 7 Dear Kiril, My name is Leo Koganov from Stamford, CT, USA. KIRIL’S I am a fourth grade student at Hart Magnet School. ... KLASS REASONS I enjoyed playing the game Megazoid - GM Potatowoski TO on my magnetic chess set. Megazoid won with a cool mate in three. UNDERPROMOTE I liked solving your puzzles! Thanks for the contest, Leo This lesson is about promoting Hello Leo, pawns to rook, bishop, or knight. It’s good to make a connection with someone from Connecticut! How are things south of the border? Thanks for entering my WoW contest. That was a Moving a pawn to the last rank is always a big moment cool game by the Megazoid. Hey, does everyone at in a game. Normally it means “queening” the pawn. Hart Magnet School have a magnetic chess set!? The queen is the most powerful piece on the board, so Good luck, my new friend. getting a new one is usually great strategy. However, Kiril there are a few situations where it is better to promote to something else. PAST ISSUES OF When a pawn is promoted to rook, bishop, or knight, it is called an underpromotion. SCHOLAR’S MATE ROOK in PDF or DNL format are available at: The only good reason for promoting to a rook is to www.chess-math.org/scholarsmate avoid stalemate. w________w Position #1 shows a typical Click on “PAST ISSUES”. áwdwdwdwd] case. Rushing forward with àdwdwdPdk] Free and fun. What a deal! 1.f8=Q? puts the black king ßwdwdwdwd] in stalemate. That would be ÞdwdwdwdK] embarrassing for White. Ýwdwdwdwd] HEY, FRIENDS! The pawn has to promote Üdwdwdwdw] now or Black will play ...Kg7 Ûwdwdwdwd] I’VE GOT E-MAIL. and capture it. The next best Údwdwdwdw] .. You can write me a letter thing to a queen is a rook, so wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw or enter my contest at: White plays 1.f8=R! [email protected] After 1...Kg7, there is a mate in five. 2.Rf1 Kh7 3.Rf7+ Kh8 4.Kg6 Kg8 5.Rf1 Kh8 6.Rf8# 8 Scholar’s Mate 115 Scholar’s Mate 115 9 w________w áwdwdwdwd] BISHOP àdw)wdwdw] The only good reason for promoting to a bishop is to ßwdwdwdwd] avoid stalemate when promoting to a rook would also be Þdwdwdwdw] stalemate. Ýwdw4wdwd] A rook is better than a bishop, so it is smarter to make a rook if you can. Diagram #3 is an exception. Üdwdwdwdw] w________w ÛwdKdwdwd] áwdwdwdwd] Úiwdwdwdw] àdwdwdw)p] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw ßwdwdwdwi] Position #2 is more complicated. It was analyzed over a Þdwdwdwdw] hundred years ago by Fernando Saavedra of Spain. ÝwdwdwdwI] Making a new queen with 1.c8=Q looks like a good idea. ÜdwdwdNdw] Queen versus rook is usually a win. But Black has a trick Ûwdwdwdwd] to save the day. 1...Rc4+! forks the white king and queen, Údwdwdwdw] which forces a stalemate by 2.Qxc4.
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