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One of the best things about playing chess tournaments up and down the east coast during my later teenage years was the number of interesting people I got to meet, and the camaraderie that developed between the people I traveled with.

Playing Chess is much like raising kids.

The most fundamental of the chess endings are those that occur when there are only kings and pawns left on the board.

Chess is a complicated game that is played by millions of people every single day. There have been hundreds of thousands of chess books written and published, and there are tens of thousands of chess tournaments that go on every year.

The method of checkmating a lone king with a king and a rook is a major part of a good foundation in endgames for chess. In fact, learning this endgame is the basis for all endgames with pawns, queens, or rooks left on the board.

A huge advantage you gain by studying the endgame is that you'll more easily realize when you can trade down to a won endgame.

In the endgame, and especially in endgames were there are only kings and pawns left on the board, often things will come down to the tinyest detail of the position. Come learn what those details are.

Pawn endgames are the underlying foundation for all parts of the endgame because virtually all actions in the endgame are based off the pawn structure and the pawn endgame that would occur if all the pieces besides the kings and pawns traded off.

Free summer activities and events in Lewisville, TX ranging from concerts to chess

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Set aside an afternoon for this one.

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A chilling tale about a killer that gets to live on and schemes to seek out revenge. No matter of lengths that he's willing to go through to make sure he wins his own game.

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