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The Rookski Shuffle North CANADA'S CHESS MAGAZINE FOR KIDS OCTOBER 2010 number 104 THE ROOKSKI SHUFFLE NORTH AMERICAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP F-PAWN TRAPS Part 1 SSCCHHOOLLAARR’’SS MMAATTEE IS ON-LLINE !! Since October 2009, SCHOLAR’S MATE is no longer TRICK printed. But don’t be sad. You can still enjoy Canada’s OR Chess Magazine For Kids on-line, for free! TREAT! 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. HHii CCHHEESSSS PPAALLSS!! www.chess-math.org Welcome to another year of If you have any questions about the e-magazine, your favourite magazine. please contact us at: Congratulations to the winners of the Canadian [email protected] and North American Youth Championships. Our reports for those summer events are on page 28. Good luck to everybody going to the World Youth in Greece! Has your school chess club started yet? Don’t forget to ask a friend to join. You never know who the next chess fanatic might be! Here’s the mag, Kiril 2 Scholar’s Mate 104 Scholar’s Mate 104 3 SCHOLAR’S MATE SCHOLAR'S MATE 3423 St. Denis #400 OCTOBER 2010 #104 Montreal, Quebec H2X 3L2 EDITOR Jeff Coakley CONTENTSCONTENTS Illustrator Antoine Duff Scholar's Mate is published five times per year by the F-PAWN TRAPS 8 Chess’n Math Association. Dates of issue : October 15, Kiril’s Klass December 15, February 15, April 15, June 15 Be Careful With That Pawn! Reproduction by any means, mechanical or electronic, is forbidden except by permission of Scholar's Mate. NORTH AMERICAN YOUTH 29 Report From Montreal October 2010 (date of issue) ISSN 1923-6441 Canada And World News Legal Deposit National Library of Canada #D373119 THE ROOKSKI SHUFFLE 36 Kiril's Korner Hi, friends! The Great One Returns Scholar’s Mate is now an e-magazine! Anyone can read it for free on the internet, so there are no more Magazine Info 4 Mate in 2 25 subscriptions. But you will need a free program called You Are Here! 5 Mate in 3 26 DNL Reader, which is available on our website. Or you can download a PDF version of the magazine. How To Read Chess 6 Lily’s Puzzler 27 Letters To Kiril 7 News 28 www.chess-math.org www.chess-math.org Ed & Alec 13 CCC History 30 If you have any questions Canada Top Ten 14 Kiril’s Kontest 32 about the magazine, Did You Know? 15 E-mail Address 34 please contact us at: Tactics 101 17 Who’s The Goof? 35 [email protected] Regional Top 10’s 18 Chess Challenge 43 Top Girls 22 Tournaments 44 See you Combo Mombo 23 Ratings 46 on-line! Mate in 1 24 Solutions 47 4 Scholar’s Mate 104 Scholar’s Mate 104 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 second part is its rank. In this 2 P)P)w)P) Hi Kiril! diagram, a white pawn moved 1 $NGQIBHR This is Justin and Ethan Lin from Winnipeg, to e4 and a black pawn to e5. abcdefgh When moves are written down, Manitoba. We would like to submit our answers for the first capital letter shows the Here are some special symbols: the Kiril’s Kontest because we are dying to get one piece which moves. Q is queen. + check of your t-shirts! . B is bishop. R is rook. N is used # checkmate for knight because the king is K. Thanks, If there is no capital letter, that e. p. en passant means a pawn moves. O - O castles kingside Justin & Ethan Lin Next is the square that the O - O - O castles queenside Winnipeg, Manitoba piece moves to. Bc4 says that a 1 - 0 white wins chess bishop moves to the square c4. 0 - 1 black wins P.S. Your magazines are awesome! When a piece is captured, an x ½ - ½ draw is put before the square. Qxf7 means a queen takes on f7. ! excellent move Hiya guys, If a pawn captures, the letter ? mistake Your answers to the contest were all correct. And of the file it starts on is given !? cool move first, then an x followed by the ?! weird (weak) move it must be your lucky day! You won the drawing for square it takes on. exd5 says a a t-shirt. pawn on the e-file captures on The game below is written in the square d5. algebraic notation. Kiril was But I wonder how two of you will wear one shirt! When two pieces of the same new to chess and fell into an Good luck figuring that out, kind can go to the same spot, old trap called Scholar’s Mate! another letter is put after the ROCKY KIRIL Kiril piece to show what file it came from. Rae1 tells us that a rook 1. e4 e5 [email protected] on the a-file moves to e1. 2. Qh5 d6 If the pieces that can move to 3. Bc4 Nf6 ? P.S. For people who may not know about my the same spot are on the same 4. Qxf7 # contest, we randomly pick one name from all the file, then their rank number is added. N6e4 means the knight Oh no! Kiril got mated in just correct entries. That person wins the prize, one on the 6th rank moves to e4. four moves. That was no fun! of my famous t-shirts! 6 Scholar’s Mate 104 Scholar’s Mate 104 7 w________w Diagram #2 is a famous trap árhb1kgn4] called the Damiano Defence. à0p0pdw0p] F-PPAWN 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f6? By moving the ßwdwdw0wd] f-pawn, black weakens the king Þdwdw0wdw] TRAPS by opening the diagonal from h5 ÝwdwdPdwd] to e8. A queen check on h5 is part 1 ÜdwdwdNdw] the usual way to take advantage ÛP)P)w)P)] of this weakness. Ú$NGQIBdR] That can be arranged with This lesson shows why moving wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw your f-pawn can be dangerous. 3.Nxe5! fxe5 4.Qh5+. White is up the exchange after 4...g6 5.Qxe5+ Qe7 6.Qxh8 or w________w gets a whopper attack following 4...Ke7 5.Qxe5+ Kf7 Many of the shortest games árhb1kgn4] 6.Bc4+ Kg6 7.Qf5+ Kh6 8.d3+ g5 9.h4! (9...d5 10.Qf7!) of chess happen because the à0p0pdp0p] Advancing your f-pawn in the opening isn’t always bad, loser moves their f-pawn. ßwdwdpdwd] but you should be very careful if you do. Did you ever see the two Þdwdwdwdw] The King’s Gambit is a good opening: 1.e4 e5 2.f4. move checkmate? Take a look Ýwdwdw)Pd] White aims to get rid of the black centre pawn and to use at position #1. It was reached the open f-file for an attack. Üdwdwdwdw] w________w after the moves 1.g4 e6 2.f4. ÛP)P)Pdw)] Black mates with 2...Qh4#. árhb1kgn4] Ú$NGQIBHR] à0p0pdp0p] White can win the same way wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw but then it takes three turns: ßwdwdwdwd] BLACK TO MOVE 1.e4 g5 2.d4 f6 3.Qh5#. Þdwdwdwdw] ÝwdwdP0wd] Üdwdwdwdw] ÛP)P)wdP)] Ú$NGQIBHR] wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw If black accepts the gambit by 2...exf4, then we get the position shown in diagram #3. The best move now is 3.Nf3! guarding the h4 square. Other moves, like 3.d4? or 3.Bc4?!, give black an easy game after 3...Qh4+. A worse mistake is 3.Nc3? Qh4+ 4.g3 fxg3 5.Nf3 when black has the cool trick 5...g2+! 6.Nxh4 gxh1=Q. 8 Scholar’s Mate 104 Scholar’s Mate 104 9 w________w w________w An excellent way for black árhb1kdn4] Black can encounter the same árhb1kgnd] to decline the King’s Gambit is à0p0pdp0p] kind of problems in the Dutch à0p0p0wdw] with 2...Bc5. See diagram #4. ßwdwdwdwd] Defence. 1.d4 f5. ßwdwdwdw4] Again, the best move is 3.Nf3. Þdwgw0wdw] Position #6 was reached after Þdwdwdw0p] Capturing 3.fxe5? gets busted ÝwdwdP)wd] 2.Bg5!? h6 3.Bh4 g5? 4.Bg3 f4 Ýwdw)w0wd] by 3...Qh4+ 4.g3 (4.Ke2 Qxe4#!) Üdwdwdwdw] 5.e3! h5 (5...fxg3 6.Qh5#) 6.Bd3 ÜdwdB)wGw] 4...Qxe4+ 5.Qe2 Qxh1. ÛP)P)wdP)] Rh6 (to prevent Bg6#). ÛP)Pdw)P)] A similar trap is 3.Nf3 d6! Ú$NGQIBHR] The bishop at g3 is trapped but Ú$NdQIwHR] 4.fxe5 dxe5 5.Nxe5? Qh4+! wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw the advanced black pawns have wÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈw left the h5-e8 diagonal weak. WHITE TO MOVE The Bird Opening 1.f4 looks crazy but it’s actually an Can you find the mate in 2? MATE IN 2 okay move. A fun line for black is From’s Gambit 1...e5 8.Bg6#) Rxh5 (7.Qxh5+ 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6.
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