North Kildare Junior Chess Club

We will be running a short Draughts course during the Easter 2021 break. We will be covering English Draughts (Checkers) and Russian Draughts. The details are here: https://nkchess.com/draughts/ I have also created some Draughts Pre Course videos on youtube to give the participants a foundation in Draughts/Checkers before the classes begin.

Monday – March 1st 2021 — the Monday Fundamentals class will have a fun Blitz Arena tournament on lichess.org. https://lichess.org/tournament/o6AbZMFI (usual password) (time control: 5 minutes + 5 seconds increment) Also invited are members of the Catch-up Class from Tuesdays and Thursdays and anyone other club members playing at around 1100 or less (lichess.org rating). … More Fun-damentals Blitz Arena March 2021

There was a great turnout of 36 players for our first ever Kids vs Grownups Team Battle on lichess.org. The Grownups team (consisting of parents of club members) had 15 players against 21 Juniors. The competition was fierce with the lead changing hands several times throughout the 70 minute Team Battle. The final Result was: … More The North Kildare Chess Club Grownups vs.Kids 2020 Team Battle Result ….