GRCC Chess Club

01/20/2024

We've been talking about the Fried Liver at GRCC Chess Club. Here is a great way to counter it. It's not the Traxler (further down this page) but some great options including a smothered mate.

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11/07/2023

The GRCC Chess Club is trying to get funding to purchase a second bluetooth DGT board to record their games and host live events. Both boards could be used simultaneously to record and analyze their games. This means that we can capture many more of our games and add them to our student database in addition to streaming games live over the internet. I love the problem-solving by our students in the meantime. They admitted, though, it may be difficult to recreate the game from the phone's perspective. - Brian Beecher, GRCC Chess Club Advisor

10/21/2023

Here is a good beginner's videos by one of my favorite Grand Masters, Jesse Kraai with the Chess Dojo. He talks about Time in the opening.

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07/18/2023

Here is a great video by GM Igor Smirnov on the general opening principles of chess.

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05/08/2023

Here's part 12 of our chess skills fundamentals class. This video wraps up our Winter semester and is an update on my chess goals and whether I met them or not. I encourage all students to set goals for themselves and periodically check to see if you are achieving them. Thanks for watching!

This is part 12 of a series of chess classes I'm putting together for my chess friends and students at my college. Consider this series a journey through ou...

05/08/2023

Here's part 11 of our chess club class. This class is on how to avoid blunders. For beginners, if you can teach yourself to avoid blunders in your games, your rating will quickly go up! Thanks for watching!

This is part 11 of a series of chess classes I'm putting together for my chess friends and students at my college. Consider this series a journey through ou...

04/27/2023

This was the last class of the semester. In this 10th lesson, I review the 4 key things to follow to improve at chess. In the 24-minute video, I give a review of opening principles, middlegame advice, and daily tasks to help you improve. I've also included Hunter's advice on how to improve. I shared my typical daily study plan as well as Hunter's. Thanks again for participating in our club! - Brian Beecher

This is part 10 of a series of chess classes I'm putting together for my chess friends and students at my college. Consider this series a journey through ou...

04/27/2023

Here is part 9 of our Chess Club Fundamentals Class. At the class this week, we discussed how to create a training plan for our chess improvement. This includes making a schedule for playing games, game analysis, doing tactical puzzles, and studying books, DVDs, lessons, etc. This 40-minute lesson talks about all of these things as well as how to analyze your games. I also talk about the study plan I made for myself and how to create a Chess Journal and "Why I'm Losing Chess Games" record. Thanks to everyone who is participating in our cohort, class and club. - Brian Beecher

This is part 9 of a series of chess classes I'm putting together for my chess friends and students at my college. Consider this series a journey through our...

04/27/2023

Here's a great game played in the Library on our DGT Board by Tom (playing black) and Ms. Sweet (playing white). I hope the annotations I wrote and analysis help our students better understand what's happening in this game. Both Tom and Ms. Sweet did a great job! - Brian Beecher (chess club advisor). Here's the game:

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03/29/2023

Here is part 8 of our instruction series on chess development and improvement. As you know, our chess class meets in the Library & Learning Commons on Thursdays at 2:30 pm. This week's class was on setting goals in chess. In this video, I share my goal, my thoughts and strategy on how to achieve that goal, and my timeline and study plan. I hope this helps you. Here's "Creating and Achieving Goals in Chess" - Brian Beecher.

This is part 8 of a series of chess classes I'm putting together for my friends and students at my college. Consider this series a journey through our chess...

03/23/2023

Here is a great video by International Master, Nelson Lopez, on how to stop making blunders. His blunder check, as well as other blunder strategies by other masters, is something we will discuss in an upcoming fundamentals class. - Brian B. Here's the video:

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03/18/2023

Here is a great inspirational video on going from 0 to 2000 in two years. It was a lot of work, but she did it!

Two years ago, I didn't know how to play chess. This is the story of my journey to a 2000 rapid rating on Chess.com.Access unlimited Puzzle Rush, Game Review...