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The NSWJCL provides top quality coaching for
our high level chess players, primarily those who are not already coached
privately on a regular basis. One of our main aims is to introduce quality
coaching to talented newer, younger players who will gain most benefit from
it. The coaching will take place on Sunday afternoons approximately monthly
from March to October with seven sessions of three hours. The coaching is
heavily subsidised by the NSWJCL, but there is a cost to players.
The NSWJCL is now inviting expressions
of interest from juniors for the 2011 sessions. If you are passionate about
improving your chess and have an NSWJCL rating above about 650, you should
register your interest as soon as possible, but no later than 24 January, by
sending an email to the Advanced Training Squad Coordinator,
Weng Siow, email
nswjcl@hotmail.com
– please include the name and
contact details of the player and his/her parent(s). |
In 2009 we had 21 juniors participating in the ATS and we were fortunate
to have GM Ian Rogers, GM Zong-Yuan Zhao , IM George Xie, IM Vladimir
Feldman and IM Irina Berezina as coaches. A structured program was
devised by GM Rogers with topics such as
● "I don't know what to do!"
– planning in chess, and
● "I know I should have
something good here" – solving
problems at the board.
The last session of the year was a GM clock simul reminiscent of the
Soviet training camps for juniors held at the Palaces of Pioneers in
many Soviet cities. If you have read any biographies of famous Soviet
chess players of the 1950s and 1960s you will know about such clock
simuls. These occasions provided opportunities for the juniors to play
against and possibly defeat a GM or an IM. However, as Ian Rogers
remarked, those Soviet GMs faced only 7-9 juniors while he played 17
juniors. The score? Ian won 14, drew 2 and lost 1. Ian praised the play
of the only winner, Kevin Tan, especially his execution of the KID game
plan. GM Rogers generously provided a prize and presented it to Kevin
for his sterling effort. Jack Ruan and Andrew Pan were the two juniors
who drew their games. However, GM Rogers thought his best game was
against Peng Yu Chen.
You can replay GM Ian Rogers's games with Kevin and Peng Yu by clicking
HERE.
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