Albert Lea Chess Club

We had our second chess club of the season on Thursday night. Two new faces joined us…friends of an 8th grader who came to chess club last year.

I had yet another battle over the board with Kelly. As usual, I put up a good fight, but slipped up a bit near the beginning of the middle game. He gave me an opportunity later when he dropped a bishop and we then had even material. We slowly moved into the endgame and I couldn’t materialize on his slip up. Yet another game lost to Mr. C. It was quite fun nonetheless.

I’ve seen a few new faces at our regular Thurs. Albert Lea Chess Club meetings. A few kids from the neighborhood, too. On the whole, I think playing once a week with a real person on a real chess board (as opposed to a computer) is helping everyone to be come better chess players. And the big thing is, we’re all having fun.

Some time down the road we’ll have a “challenge” system that will set up equally matched opponents against each other. We’re still just working out the details, and thinking about how to set up a “challenge board” of sorts.

And to the women in the kitchen who continue to bring us treats every week, THANK YOU! I know everyone in our club really appreciates it.

The Albert Lea Chess Club is back after the holiday break. Last night several of us even stayed until 8:30pm to watch Doug and Marc battle it out. I’m sure they enjoyed having several of us hovering around their table watching their every move.

We added a link to the community education catalog on the home page. Lots of great classes!

We now have links, videos, and resources pages.  Check back once in a while to see new videos posted on the “videos” page.

Maybe it’s good luck; we had 13 players last night.

This is a page where we’ll post updates and various memos about what we’re up to each week.