Willow Brook’s beginners chess club started this week and we got off to a great start! After going right back to basics of what a board looks like, we learnt (or, in the case of some children, revised!) how pawns start, move, take other pieces and can be very helpful if they make it to the other side of a board. Through playing the “Pawn Race” with just 8 pawns each on the board, we began to see which children are very good at problem solving! We made sure that we stuck to the important “touch, move” rule of chess by thinking in our heads about our move to make sure we were as confident as possible when moving that pieces forwards! Over the next few weeks, we will start adding other pieces into the board and learning how they start, take other pieces, move and can be of use to us in a full game of chess. For now, here are some photographs of our very excited chess novices concentrating particularly well…
