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Welcome to the HBMS Chess Club webpage. The club is in its second year and we are looking forward to a great year. We had a great turnout during school orientation day, and quite a few kids signed up for this year's club.
We will start meeting a couple of weeks after school starts (8/23/99), on Mondays afternoons after school. We will have a ladder and post standings on the web, and we also hope to enter some tournaments this year.
This website is very much under construction, but we would appreciate any input we can get. Club members are encouraged to provide a short bio of themselves and a picture for our members section. Well, that is all for now. Enjoy yourselves. And keep on playing!  |
 This week's ladder standings Chess Problems Club Members Photo Album Chess Links |
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Notes from our Sponsor Chess club will meet once per week on Monday afternoons after school. All games starting next week will count towards a ladder standing . Points in this ladder are to be awarded as follows.
The intent is to create a friendly competition. Players are encouraged to play games during the week for practice. Only games played during chess club meetings will count for the ladder. Research Report-Chess and reading (from "Chess in the Schools"): In 1991, with funding from the IBM Corporation, we commissioned a study conducted by a leading educational psychologist looking at the effect learning and playing chess had on reading scores of children in the Chess-in-the-Schools program in New York City Community School District 9. Located in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood, Community School District 9 students have historically scored the lowest in reading and math of all 32 New York City school districts. The findings were significant. Children in the Chess-in-the-Schools program showed an average year-to-year gain of 5.37 percentile points against the national average. The gains were particularly impressive among children who started with low or average initial scores. Non-chess playing control groups showed no gain. The same educational psychologist who conducted the 1991 study, has recently completed a similar study in six U.S. cities conducted over two years. In the current study, two classrooms were selected in each of five schools. Students were given instruction in chess and reasoning in one classroom in each school. Reading scores of chess players and control classroom students were approximately equal at the beginning of the school year. Students in the chess program obtained significantly higher reading scores at the end of the year. It should be noted that while students in the chess group took chess lessons, the control group had additional classroom instruction in basic education. The control group teacher was free to use the "chess period" any way he or she wanted, but the period was usually used for reading, math or social studies instruction. The control groups thus had a little more reading instruction than the chess groups. Even so, the chess groups did better on the reading post-test. So the gains in the chess groups were particularly impressive. |
| Try out some of these chess problems (a new window will open). Find the best move for white (unless otherwise noted): | |
| Bios and pictures go here |
| Start taking some pictures during the meetings, guys! |
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