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Yes2Chess 2015 - Linda McCusker - 02-03-2015
Received this e-mail today and thought it might be of interest to those involved with primary school chess clubs
Dear all,
Yes2Chess 2015 is underway! Brought to you by Chess in Schools and Communities and Barclaycard, Yes2Chess is a unique, free chess server that allows children of all ages and abilities to play chess games against each other in a safe, online environment. Each child is randomly assigned a username distributed only by a chess tutor or school teacher, and the server has no player chat function. As the server is web based there is no special software to download and it's easy to use.
In addition to friendly games, schools can register up to 20 teams of five to take part in the Yes2Chess International Challenge, an online team tournament for 7-11 year olds. This is open to primary schools from the UK, USA, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The closing date for entries is Tuesday 31st March 2015.
In July 2014 the best primary/elementary schools from the eight participating countries travelled to London to take part in the final of the inaugural Yes2Chess International Challenge, which was staged at Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time, in Hyde Park. The finalists also played in a simultaneous against the British Chess Champion GM David Howell, went on a London bus tour, attended a Parliamentary reception and visited Barclaycard’s Head Office for a ‘Mad Hatter’s Tea Party’.
Reports on the Parliamentary reception and tea party, and the final itself, can be found here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://en.chessbase.com/post/yes2chess-team-finals-in-london">http://en.chessbase.com/post/yes2chess- ... -in-london</a><!-- m --> and here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chessinschools.co.uk/yes2chessfinal_2014.htm">http://www.chessinschools.co.uk/yes2chessfinal_2014.htm</a><!-- m -->
Videos from the final, and of the Yes2Chess volunteering programme in action, can be found here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://tinyurl.com/y2cfinal">http://tinyurl.com/y2cfinal</a><!-- m --> and here :http://tinyurl.com/y2cschools
To sign up for Yes2Chess, or for further information, please go to <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.yes2chess.org.'">http://www.yes2chess.org.'</a><!-- m -->
UK Sign up: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://yes2chess.org/uk/">http://yes2chess.org/uk/</a><!-- m -->
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Re: Yes2Chess 2015 - Linda McCusker - 25-03-2015
I sent the following e-mail message to the Yes2Chess people regarding the possibility of secondary school pupils becoming involved :
Hi is there any possibility that this initiative will be extended to include secondary schools? It's just that there is a big drop off in young people playing chess once they leave primary school and anything to promote chess to teenagers would be most welcome. Best wishes, Linda
I received a very prompt reply :
Hello Linda,
Thanks for your e-mail.
The reason that this is restricted to eight countries, and to primary schools, is because that is what the sponsoring company wants to be involved with.
If a secondary school wishes to register for friendly games, then that's permitted.
Regards,
Alex
I am now looking into getting the pupils in our school club involved in some online friendly games which I think will be a great experience for them