Teaching chess since 1996
Tournaments
Last Friday was our Wear a Hat Day Open with 10 players who entered. In the Baseball Cap section Bo-You Lee won first and Calvin Chacko and Royce Qu tied for second. In the Cowboy Hat section Nila Krishnan placed first and Chiemeka Obi was second place.
FBCC has released The Beast. This app assists you with your chess training. Click on the Beast for more details.
New Classes
Level 6 - Improve your tournament results
This class is for players who have started playing in tournaments, know the basic tactics, and know the basics of positional play (how do you improve your position when there aren’t any tactics). It targets players rated around 600-1400. Level 6 doesn’t feature learning an opening or learning new techniques; however, it includes exercises to help your visualization skills and teaches what to do when you’re in different situations … so you don’t have to spend time with the clock running to figure it out in a real game. And every lesson includes an endgame lessons because as you improve, fewer games are won by checkmate in the middle of the game; more games will reach an endgame where the side that gets the queen wins the game. That’s a huge difference maker that most people learning on their own overlook.
Level 14 - Fort Bend Chess Club vs Bobby Fischer
This is only the fourth time this class has been taught and it’s always fun and popular. We will play a “match” against Fischer by putting ourselves into real games of his and analyzing them to determine who’s winning, what are the key threats, and what move we should make and why.