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it's nice to be able to see the former members. But it would also be nice to click on a list of active members only.
In the olden days you could click on your club & see all the members + their g ...

Perhaps uniquely a high fraction of parents take up their child's trade/sport/hobby/pastime. naturally!
Phil, I'm mainly concerned with social players! I know a lot of families where the dad plays &a ...

Whenever I try to teach her things she loses interest If you'd read my 1st lesson, you'd know why! Beginners want to play & they want to win! That's why handicap games are best - they're short &am ...

what do you mean 'play properly'? We all make characteristic mistakes at the level we're at & if you allow her to make the 'right' mistakes you'll get on better with her & may even help her!
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Once kids win against me with a handicap of q & 2 rs, they're already winning prizes at kids' comps! At the chess club I asked the other players to give them a handicap. One of them said that if t ...

I shall definitely buy the rookie book for any aspiring teenager or adult who's starting out.
But my concern at the mo is to do with enjoyment & learning by discovery! When beginners are stopped ...

Have you ever thought why so few children follow in their parents' chess footsteps? In any other profession it's quite common for the son to follow the father. One reason could be that most profession ...

sounds good - it would be nice if we had a link from the noticebd to the home page. There are a few links from some files back to the home page which is good.

now that Hugh has joined us, we'll be able to see the = for the whole 7 Days? Smile

The Polgar girls never went to school, played a bit of table tennis to get rid of their youthful energy & learned English. They're all three well adjusted.

Bobby Fisher is a classic example of this. not at all! i imagine that all the top Russians had a thorough grounding in chess as kids AND they learned other things as well. In fact most turned into nor ...

We've just read about an 8 years old girl who's sponsored (£ 4000 per year by the Lawn Tennis group) to improve her tennis. But the parents think that's not enough, so they're selling their house to p ...

I've read lots of crime stories where a doc was the baddie & wasn't there a real life doc who killed a lot of his patients?
But that doesn't mean we're not going to see our docs anymore.

Pollock Halls is basic & not too expensive mailto:bed.breakfast@ed.ac.uk

new adult players separate from the strategy to boost junior involvement why? Ayrshire has organised a few training events which have been attended by juniors as well as seniors - a perfect arrangeme ...