Captain Bemo: Destination Pelee Canadian Chess Challenge Bishop and Knight Mates
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CANADA'S CHESS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS JUNE 2013 number 118 CAPTAIN BEMO: DESTINATION PELEE CANADIAN CHESS CHALLENGE BISHOP AND KNIGHT MATES SSCCHHOOLLAARR’’SS MMAATTEE HHEELLLLOO CCHHEESSSS PPAALLSS!! 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 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. www.chess-math.org WELCOME TO THE MAGAZINE. If you have any questions about the e-magazine, please contact us at: Do you have any chess plans for the summer? [email protected] There are lots of chess camps around the country. And some big tournaments too, like the North American Youth Championships in Toronto. Don’t forget to pack a chess set if you go on vacation. You never know when you might meet a new chess friend! Congratulations to the winners of the Canadian Chess Challenge. See page 8 for a full report. Here’s the mag, Kiril 2 Scholar’s Mate 118 Scholar’s Mate 118 3 SCHOLAR’S MATE SCHOLAR'S MATE 3423 St. Denis #400 JUNE 2013 #118 Montreal, Quebec H2X 3L2 EDITOR Jeff Coakley Illustrator Antoine Duff CONTENTSCONTENTS Scholar's Mate is published five times per year by the CHESS CHALLENGE 8 Chess’n Math Association. Dates of issue : October 15, Ontario Takes The Gold December 15, February 15, April 15, June 15 Report From Ottawa Reproduction by any means, mechanical or electronic, is forbidden except by permission of Scholar's Mate. BISHOP AND KNIGHT MATES 14 Kiril’s Klass June 2013 (date of issue) Winning Ways With Minor Pieces DESTINATION PELEE 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 Front Cover 1 Combo Mombo 29 DNL Reader, which is available on our website. Or You Are Here! 5 Mate in 1 30 you can download a PDF version of the magazine. How To Read Chess 6 Mate in 2 31 www.chess-math.org Letters To Kiril 7 Mate in 3 32 If you have any questions Kiril’s Address 7 Lily’s Puzzler 33 about the magazine, Mort and Marley 19 News 34 please contact us at: Summer Camps 20 Kiril’s Kontest 38 [email protected] Master Profile 21 Provincial Champs 52 Canada Top Ten 22 Who’s The Goof? 53 See you Tactics 101 23 Tournaments 54 on-line! Regional Top 10’s 24 Ratings 56 Top Girls 28 Solutions 57 4 Scholar’s Mate 118 Scholar’s Mate 118 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 5 dwdw0wdw sideways. Each one is named KIRIL by a number. 4 wdwdPdwd Every square also has a name. 3 dwdwdwdw The first part is its file and the second part is its rank. In this 2 P)P)w)P) Hello Kiril, diagram, a white pawn moved 1 $NGQIBHR to e4 and a black pawn to e5. I have a question. How can you abcdefgh When moves are written down, and the other pawns walk when the first capital letter shows the Here are some special symbols: you don’t have any legs? piece which moves. Q is queen. + check B is bishop. R is rook. N is used # checkmate I really like reading Scholar’s for knight because the king is K. Mate. Thanks for making it. If there is no capital letter, that e. p. en passant means a pawn moves. O - O castles kingside Charles S. Next is the square that the O - O - O castles queenside Toronto, Ontario piece moves to. Bc4 says that a 1 - 0 white wins bishop moves to the square c4. 0 - 1 black wins Hi Charles, When a piece is captured, an x ½ - ½ draw is put before the square. Qxf7 Thanks for writing. That’s a very tricky question. means a queen takes on f7. ! excellent move If a pawn captures, the letter ? mistake I didn’t know that we needed legs to walk! I guess of the file it starts on is given !? cool move we just sort of glide around. It’s easy. first, then an x followed by the ?! weird (weak) move square it takes on. exd5 says a Bye for now, pawn on the e-file captures on The game below is written in Kiril the square d5. algebraic notation. Kiril was 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! another letter is put after the ROCKY KIRIL HEY, FRIENDS! piece to show what file it came from. Rae1 tells us that a rook 1. e4 e5 I’VE GOT E-MAIL. on the a-file moves to e1. 2. Qh5 d6 If the pieces that can move to 3. Bc4 Nf6 ? .. You can write me a letter the same spot are on the same 4. Qxf7 # or enter my contest at: file, then their rank number is added. N6e4 means the knight Oh no! Kiril got mated in just [email protected] on the 6th rank moves to e4. four moves. That was no fun! 6 Scholar’s Mate 118 Scholar’s Mate 118 7 oo AANNAADDIIAANN 22001133 CCHHAAMMPPIIOONNSS oo HHEESSSS 1 LUCIEN WU British Columbia oo 2 QIUYU HUANG Quebec HHAALLLLEENNGGEE 3 NICHOLAS VETTESE Ontario 4 KAIXIN WANG Alberta R E P O R T F R O M TH E N A T I O N ` S C A P I T A L 5 MAÏLI-JJADE OUELLET Quebec The national finals of the 25th annual Canadian Chess Challenge were held on Victoria Day weekend 6 KEVIN WAN * Ontario at Carleton University in Ottawa. 7 QIYU ZHOU Ontario Most players and their families enjoyed the good 8 RAZVAN PREOTU Ontario weather on Saturday by sightseeing around the scenic 9 ADAM DORRANCE ****** Nova Scotia capital. That evening, the opening banquet featured entertainment by a group of jugglers. 10 JAMES FU * Ontario The chess competition began on Sunday morning. 11 TANRAJ SOHAL ******* British Columbia A bagpiper played as the teams marched into the hall, 12 NIKITA KRAIOUCHKINE ***** Quebec carrying their provincial flags. After the national previous national champion anthem, sung by Don MacKinnon (Saskatchewan), the * players shook hands and started their games. When the last king was mated on Monday afternoon, Alberta 8-4 in round 9, but lost earlier to Quebec 8-4 Ontario had captured first place for the fourth time in a and Ontario 9-3. row, winning all of their matches and earning eleven Alberta placed fourth with six match victories, including medals, including five golds. a 10-2 thumping of Manitoba in the first round. Kaixin As you can see in the photo on page 11, the prizes at Wang (Edmonton) won gold in grade 4 while five other the nationals are trophies. We just talk as if they are Albertans took bronze. medals, like at the Olympics! New Brunswick and Newfoundland tied for fifth place Quebec finished a strong second, with eight players in match points. The tiebreak (individual points) went to taking home prizes. Nikita Kraiouchkine (Granby) won New Brunswick, who received the prize for Top Atlantic his grade for the sixth time. The team’s only loss was Team. Sam Song (Saint John) tied for first in grade 7, against Ontario 8-4 in the final round. but lost the playoff. British Columbia came third, led by 11th grader Tanraj The Most Improved Team was Saskatchewan, who Sohal (Surrey), who became champion for the eighth scored 7 more points than 2012. time, tying the record held by Lefong Hua (Montreal) Thirteen players were undefeated, with perfect 9-0’s and Lloyd Mai (Ottawa). B.C defeated longtime rival by Lucien Wu (Vancouver), Qiuyu Huang (Montreal), 8 Scholar’s Mate 118 Scholar’s Mate 118 9 match individual 2013 TEAMS ONTARIO 9 95½ QUEBEC 8 85½ BRITISH COLUMBIA 7 76 ALBERTA 6 65½ NEW BRUNSWICK 4 47½ NEWFOUNDLAND 4 40 NOVA SCOTIA 3 38½ MANITOBA 2½ 36½ SASKATCHEWAN 1½ 31½ PRINCE EDWARD IS. 0 23½ Maïli-Jade Ouellet (St-Lambert), Kevin Wan (Ottawa), Razvan Preotu (Burlington), and James Fu (Toronto). The Most Valuable Player award, given to the player who scores the highest percentage of points on their 2013 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS team, went to Adam Dorrance of Nova Scotia. front: Kevin Wan, Maïli-Jade Ouellet, Kaixin Wang, Four 2012 champions returned to defend their title. Nicholas Vettese, Qiuyu Huang, Lucien Wu Three of them were successful: Adam Dorrance, Tanraj back: James Fu, Nikita Kraiouchkine, Tanraj Sohal, Sohal, and Nikita Kraiouchkine. Adam Dorrance, Razvan Preotu, Qiyu Zhou Two provinces had siblings on their team. The best result was by the Dorrance brothers of Nova Scotia, with Adam taking gold in grade 9, and Lucas placing SSIILLVVEERR BBRROONNZZEE fourth in grade 6.