CHESS
Every recess we open the chess room where we have boards set up to cater for 40 players. Lately we have had to set more boards up on the floor due to the high number of students attending, including many of our Kindergarten students.
All are very keen and we have some very good players. If you want to encourage your child and don’t have a chess set I have placed two links below that take you to the Australian Chess Enterprises website. The board and pieces are cheap and are what we use at school. There are lots of sites to teach parents how to play should you be interested.
For the more proficient players I suggest parents sign them up to https://www.chess.com/
Many of our better players use this site. When I copied the url the data shows there were 18 million games played across the world today on that site and over 113,000 currently playing.
We are looking forward to this year's competitions in Canberra and against local schools.