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Kingston 8, Jamaica, W.I.
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THE JAMAICA CHESS ACADEMY (JACAD) REPORT 3, August 23, 2004 NATIONAL MASTER SHANE MATTHEWS LECTURES AT JAMAICA CHESS ACADEMY Photo 1 below shows NM Matthews left, demonstrating the Opposition to Adrian Fisher.
Seven-time National Chess Champion of Jamaica National Master Shane Matthews was guest lecturer at the Jamaica Chess Academy on Sunday at the RBTT Headquarters in New Kingston.
The lecture focused on the ‘Opposition’, one of the most important themes in chess, in particular the Endgame, and yet one of the least mastered. JACAD will be focusing on mastery of all the key themes in chess, including the Opposition. For this reason, we will be staying on this theme until the academy members can utilize it from any position.
JACAD implores all chess players who are part of a chess club or who have a coach to ensure that they are taught this fundamental principle called the Opposition, if they do not already know it.
Try this puzzle at home. Set up a board with the white King on C1, a white pawn on d3 and a black King on a8. With white to move, what is the winning move. The answer involves the ‘Opposition.’
REMEMBER, the Academy is open to individuals of all ages and skill level every second and fourth Sunday of each month. (Dates may change if they clash with Jamaica Chess Federation tournaments). Anyone can join at any time.
Beginners to Intermediate lectures are scheduled to take place from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Intermediate to Master Lectures from 1-4 pm. Registration of new entrants will take place prior to the start of each lecture.
The Academy will return to its normal venue at the University of Technology’s Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences Lecture Theatre 23 (LT23) on the second Sunday in September (September 12, 2004).
THANKS AGAIN NM MATTHEWS!!
END. THE
JAMAICA CHESS ACADEMY (JACAD) RBTT TO HOST JAMAICA CHESS ACADEMY By Peter Myers, Vice President JCF The Jamaica Chess Federation’s Chess Academy, which began two Sundays ago, continues this Sunday at the RBTT Bank Headquarters canteen in New Kingston. Beginner to Intermediate Lectures are scheduled to take place from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, and Intermediate to Master Lectures from 1-4 pm. Registration of new entrants will take place prior to the start of each lecture.
The Academy continues on the second and fourth Sunday of each month and is open to individuals of all ages and skill level. The Academy will return to its normal venue at the University of Technology’s Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences Lecture Theatre 23 (LT23) on the second Sunday in September.
Jamaica’s number 2 and number 4 players, National
Masters Shane Matthews and Duane Rowe have signed on as guest lectures,
and details of their scheduled lecture dates will be released at a future
date. The picture at the bottom of the last JACAD email dated August 4, 2004 was that of Grandmaster Michael Adams, the 6th highest ranked chess player in the world and the top player from England based on the latest FIDE Rankings released for July 2004. GM Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971) is an English chess grandmaster. He won the British Championship in 1989 at the age of 17. He won it again in 1997, jointly with Matthew Sadler. In 1993 he finished equal first (with Viswanathan Anand) in the Groningen tournament to determine challengers for the Professional Chess Association World Championship title. This took him to the knock-out stage, where he beat Sergei Tiviakov in the first round, but lost to Anand in the second. In 1994 he played in the Candidates of the FIDE World Championship, losing to Boris Gelfand in the first round. In 1997, he took part in the FIDE World Championship, which, for the first time, was a large knock-out event, the winner of which would play a match against reigning champion, Anatoly Karpov
This tournament included most of the world's top players (Gary Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Gata Kamsky were the only notable absentees), and Adams won short matches against Tamaz Giorgadze, Sergei Tiviakov, Peter Svidler, Loek van Wely, Nigel Short, before coming up against Anand in the final round. Their four games at normal time controls were all drawn, as were four rapid-play games at quicker time limits, before Anand won the sudden-death game, knocking Adams out.
Among his other notable results are joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 (with Kamsky and Karpov), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 (with Kramnik and Svidler), and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgar and others.
Recently, Adams made it to the finals of the 2004 World Chess Championship where he was beaten by GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan who was rated 2652.
GM Kasimdzhanov will now play the world’s No.1 rated player, GM Garry Kasparov for the 2005 World Chess Championship. This match has not been schedule as yet as countries are now in the process of bidding for the right to host the match.
REPORT 1, August 3, 2004 JAMAICA CHESS
FEDERATION TO By Peter Myers, Vice President JCF The
University of Technology’s Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences
will be the venue for the Jamaica Chess Academy, which is being organized
by the Jamaica Chess According to JCF Vice President Peter Myers, the Academy has become necessary, as the demand for structured chess coaching is now at an all time high, and the existing chess clubs do not have the capacity to satisfy the demand. The
Academy will focus on two levels, Beginner to Intermediate (BTI) and Intermediate
to Master The
ITM level will involve a rigourous programme intended to take individuals
to a level where they have mastery of certain key elements in chess such
as: the thinking process in chess, evaluation and planning, endgame play,
modern tendencies in the opening and how to build an The Academy is open to individuals of all ages, and JCF members are eligible for a discount on the monthly cost. Initially, all Academy Lectures will take place on the second and fourth Sunday of each month. The BTI lectures will take place from 10 am to 12:30 pm, while ITM lectures will take place from 1 pm to 3:30 pm. One of the special focuses of the Academy will be a study of the effect that the sport of chess has on the performance of students in athematics. Numerous studies overseas have suggested a positive relation between the playing of chess and performance in Mathematics, and the JCF will be seeking to ascertain the extent to which this is true in the Jamaican context. END JACAD PREVIEW THE JAMAICA CHESS ACADEMY (JACAD) For Intermediate to Master (ITM) Below is a brief introduction to the focus of the first lectures to be delivered in the months of August and September 2004 at the Jamaica Chess Academy for ITM.
Capablanca said: "in order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before anything else; for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame."
Very often the difference between a master and everybody else is the master's ability to play a decent endgame. Masters know the result of an endgame without having to calculate all the moves.
Simply knowing what positions are favorable and why is very important. Players who master the endgame can judge when to trade down from the middle game into the endgame simply by knowing what endgame positions are favorable without too much thought.
The Jamaica Chess Academy lectures will help you to master what is necessary to become part of that elite group called masters, who are so set apart from the rest of the chess world. The first lectures will focus on mastery of the endgame.
When studying endgame strategy you should start at the very beginning. Strive to build a solid foundation by learning the simple positions first and the more complex ones after.
If
you have not mastered such endgame fundamentals as the Lucena Position,
the Philidor Position, Rule of Square and the Opposition, but want to
move to the master level, the Jamaica Chess Academy is here to help you
to achieve this goal. This programme will involve each Intermediate to Master (ITM) Academy participant choosing one of the world’s top 10 ranked Grandmasters as their mentor. Each Academy member will be assisted with the analysis of their GM’s games and the following of the GM’s progress in tournaments around the world.
This programme is intended to familiarize Academy participants with what it means to play chess at the highest level and help them to keep abreast of what is taking place in chess internationally.
In response to a number of suggestions from potential Academy participants, the following fee structure has been developed for participation in the Academy.
Jamaica Chess Federation Members Adult – J$1000/month Juniors (under 20) – J$600/month
Non-Members Adult – J$1200/month (until Jamaica Chess Federation Membership fee is paid) Junior (under 20) – J$800/month (until Jamaica Chess Federation Membership fee is paid)
If two or more join the Academy from one (1) family, J$100 will be discounted from the normal fee for each participant. For further information or clarification, I can be contacted as follows: Cell – 4255939 Email – [email protected] or [email protected]
Peter
Myers,
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