Monday, November 12, 2007
Today, we organized a chess demo at the Chess Corner in our school during recess. Before the chess demo, we set up 3 booths with chess sets that are supposed to be used to teach the pupils. After setting up the booths and making everything ready, we took our places and waited. However, our problem is it that not much people walk past our chess corner and even those who walk past just glance at us in a strange way and left. Worse still, there’s a huge storm and strong winds blowing at us and papers were flying everywhere. We had a difficult time indeed. We were quite discouraged at first and some of us went to the canteen to introduce the pupils here. Towards the end, more and more people came and our result is 26 pupils for both P3 and P4. Although the result is not satisfying and the chess demo is not up to what we had expected, we still gained experience and enjoyed ourselves.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Ah Huay went for a job interview, and when the manager saw him wearing a colorful shirt, golden hair, streaked red tie and white shoes, he screamed in his mind, "OH MY GOD! THIS CAN'T BE IT, WOMEN!"Since he had no choice, he had a wild idea। "If you can make a sentance out of GREEN, PINK, YELLOW, BLUE, WHITE, PURPLE, and BLACK, I'll give you this job।"Ah Huay thought awhile, and said। "I heard the phone go GREEN GREEN (RING RING) ! Than I go PINK (PICK) up the phone, and said, "YELLOW (HELLO) ? BLUE's (WHO'S) that? WHITE (WHAT) did you say? Don't PURPLEly(POPERSLY) go disturb people, and don't call BLACK (BACK) , ok? Kum siah."The manager fainted.
Little Mary was not the best student in Sunday School. Usually she slept through the class. One day the teacher called on her while she was napping, "Tell me, Mary, who created the universe?" When Mary didn't stir, little Johnny, an altruistic boy seated in the chair behind her, took a pin and jabbed her in the rear. "God Almighty !" shouted Mary and the teacher said, "Very good" and Mary fell back to sleep.A while later the teacher asked Mary, "Who is our Lord and Savior?" But Mary didn't even stir from her slumber. Once again, Johnny came to the rescue and stuck her again. "Jesus Christ!" shouted Mary and the teacher said, "Very good," and Mary fell back to sleep. Then the teacher asked Mary a third question, "What did Eve say to Adam after she had her twenty-third child?" And again, Johnny jabbed her with the pin. This time Mary jumped up and shouted, "If you stick that damn thing in me one more time, I'll break it in half!" The teacher fainted.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Benefits
R number 1: To play chess competitively according to the international rules of FIDE, a player must write down his
moves.
R number 2: As a player continues to compete, he will experience many losses. Dissatisfied, the player will seek to sharpen his skill and stop repeating the mistakes of the past by reading books on chess.
R number 3: To get better at chess, a player must be able to keep score. He starts the game with eight pawns. As the game progresses, pieces get swapped, and pawns get pushed forward and lost. He now has two Rooks and four pawns left for a point count of 14 (5+5+4), and his opponent has a Rook, a Bishop, a Knight, and five pawns for a point count of 16 (5+3+3+5). The opponent therefore has a material advantage of two. Simple. He has just used arithmetic.
R number 4: The player undertakes these first three R's because it is his responsibility. No one else's. When playing chess, the player has no excuses for his blunders. A teammate didn't drop a perfect pass or miss a shot. He and only he is responsible.
R number 5: The last R is also the most important. Suppose the player's Queen is attacked. If he doesn't move it, the Queen will be captured. If he pulls it back in retreat, it will be safe. If he moves it forward, the Queen can capture a pawn and still be safe. He decides to go for the pawn, and in making his decision, he exercises his powers of reasoning.
These five R's combine to produce that which all education is about: critical thinking. When you get right down to it, education has two elements:
1) Information
2) Information processing. Information by itself is worthless. It is the critical thinking that allows us to process the information that gives the information its value.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
- Chess is the oldest skill game in the world
- Chess is more than just a game of skill. It can tell you much about the way people lived in medieval times. If you look at the way a chess board is set up, and then study the pieces and how they are used, you will realize that chess is a history of medieval times in miniature.
- The six different chess pieces on the board represent a cross section of medieval life with its many ceremonies, grandeur, and wars।
- Chess was played many centuries ago in China, India, and Persia।
- No one really knows for sure in which country it originated। Then, in the eighth century, armies of Arabs known as Moors invaded Persia. The Moors learned chess from the Persians. When the Moors later invaded Spain, the soldiers brought the game of chess with them. Soon the Spanish were playing chess, too. From Spain, chess quickly spread throughout all of Europe.
- Europeans gave chess pieces the names we know today; they probably had trouble pronouncing and spelling the Persian names, so they modernized them to reflect the way they lived.
- The pawns on the chess board represent serfs, or laborers. There are more of them than any other piece on the board, and often they are sacrificed to save the more valuable pieces. In medieval times, serfs were considered no more than property of landowners, or chattel. Life was brutally hard for serfs during this era of history. They worked hard and died young. They were often left unprotected while wars raged around them. They could be traded, used as a diversion, or even sacrificed to allow the landowners to escape harm.
How to move the chess pieces:
1) The King moves from its square to a neighboring square
2) The Rook in its line or row
3) The Bishop diagonally
4) The Queen may move like a Rook or a Bishop.
5) The Knight jumps in making the shortest move that is not a straight one,
6) The Pawn moves one square straight ahead. But such moves are permitted only if the square upon which the piece lands is empty
How to Capture Other Pieces:
1) The Pawn captures diagonally for only 1 square forward.
2) The queen captures in any direction.
3) The king captures any enemy pieces on the squares surrounding it but only 1 square.
4) The knight captures any enemy pieces on its path.
5) The bishop captures diagonally.
6) The rook captures horizontally.
You win if you:
1) checkmate your opponent
2) your opponent resigns
3) your opponent’s time is out
Although every piece is important in a chess game, we must always be careful of our king’s safety as if we lose our king, we will lose the game।
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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