Hello everybody this is Profesor Jake and welcome back to a new activity
The pawns those brave warriors, very useful when they work together although they're the weakest piece.
Watch this VIDEO, our friends Daniela and Santiago, from CEIP Doctor Castroviejo in Logroño explain the basic characteristics of our little pieces.
Now answer these questions after reading this document below
If you want to down load it in English Click Here.
CHALLENGE: "PAWNS WAR"This game is played with only the pawns. The pawns move as in chess, either one or two squares on their first move and one move thereafter. Captures are made diagonally forwards one square. Whoever reaches the opposite end first wins.
Los peones, esos valientes guerreros, muy útiles cuando trabajan juntos aunque sean la pieza más débil.
Mira este VIDEO, nuestros amigos Daniela y Santiago, del CEIP Doctor Castroviejo de Logroño, nos explican las características básicas de nuestras pequeñas piezas.
Ahora responde estas preguntas después de leer el documento a continuación.
RETO:“GUERRA DE PEONES” Este juego se juega únicamente con peones. Los peones se mueven como en el ajedrez, una o dos casillas en su primer movimiento y una jugada después. Las capturas se realizan en diagonal hacia adelante una casilla. El que llegue primero al extremo opuesto gana.
Now solve the new Challenge for beginners if you dare:
How can the white pawns can help their little mate
on a7 to Promote. Watch out the bishop can stop it.
Last week Solution:
If pawn on c6 moves forward allow its Bishop to capture it.
See you soon and keep playing
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Hello everybody this is Profesor Jake and welcome back to a new activity.
After placing and understanding our chessboard we are going to see another important fact before starting to play Chess.
How much does our pieces cost?
Actually that's not true the idea is to know their value just in case we are capturing our opponent's pieces or your opponent is capturing yours.
Is it worth to exchange a Bishop by a Rook?
To answer these questions you better watch this VIDEO and read the rest.
The value of chess pieces indicates the value of the different pieces and their relationship among them.
Each piece has its strengths and weaknesses, and therefore the value of each piece varies. Let's see what the value of each piece is below!
Piece exchanges are complex! Exchanges of pieces of equal value, such as a pawn for a pawn or a queen for a queen, are fine in terms of value, but WATCH OUT because it's never so easy.
A typical exchange would be two minor pieces (knights or bishops) for a rook and a pawn. Just because the exchange is six points for six points does not necessarily mean that it is an even exchange. There are other factors of the position that must also be taken into consideration.
Now you know what chess piece values are, what their relative values are, how engine evaluations are connected to piece values, and how to evaluate various piece exchanges.
Here's what you need to know about the value of the pieces:
At the end you will find some questions.
Do you dare to send me your solutions?
Piece exchanges are complex! Exchanges of pieces of equal value, such as a pawn for a pawn or a queen for a queen, are fine in terms of value, but WATCH OUT because it's never so easy.
Let's look at this position. Black has moved the knight from f6 to g8, offering an exchange of bishops. White, after much thought, withdrew his bishop to f2. Was it wise to avoid the exchange? His reasoning must have been like this:
■ If the opponent offers the exchange, then he is willing to get rid of the bishops and therefore, why should I let him?
■ Anyway, my bishop will be useful to attack his weak dark squares.
■ If I take on e7, his knight will be activated by moving out of his passive square on g8.
All considerations are wrong!
The first point falls into the trap of assuming your opponent knows what he is doing - and he doesn't have to, the second point of forgetting the fact that Black's bishop is far more essential for defending the dark squares than White's bishop is for attacking them, the third point confuses short-term considerations with long-term goals.
With his pawns on c6, d5, f5 and g6, Black has neglected the black squares. White has control of a splendid central square on e5, and Black has no comparable square. The black bishop on e7 is the firewall of the dark squares. When it is exchanged, the battle for the dark squares is over. In fact, after 1.Bxe7 Nxe7 2.h4! the threat of an h5 break is always looming over Black's position and White has a huge advantage.
If you think "His bishop is more useful to him than mine is to you", switch them.
At the end you will find some questions.
Do you dare to send me your solutions?
¿Cuánto cuestan nuestras piezas?
De hecho no es cierto, la idea es saber su valor en caso que estemos capturando las piezas de nuestro oponente o que tu oponente esté capturando las tuyas.
¿Merece la pena intercambiar un alfil por una torre?
Para contestar a estas preguntas en mejor ver este VÍDEO y leer el resto.
El valor de las piezas de ajedrez indica el valor de las distintas piezas y su relación entre ellas.
Cada pieza tiene sus puntos fuertes y débiles, y por tanto el valor de cada una de ellas varía. ¡Veamos cuál es el valor de cada pieza a continuación!
Los intercambios de piezas son complejos. Los intercambios de piezas de igual valor, como un peón por un peón o una reina por una reina, están bien en términos de valor, pero ¡ATENCIÓN! porque nunca es tan fácil.
Veamos esta posición. El negro ha movido el caballo de f6 a g8, ofreciendo un cambio de alfiles. El blanco, tras pensárselo mucho, retiró su alfil a f2. ¿Fue acertado evitar el cambio? Su razonamiento debe haber sido así:
■ Si el rival ofrece el cambio, entonces es que está dispuesto a deshacerse de los alfiles y por tanto, ¿por qué debería dejarle?.
■ De todos modos, mi alfil va a ser útil para atacar sobre sus débiles casillas negras.
■ Si tomo en e7, su caballo se activará saliendo de su casilla pasiva en g8.
¡Todas las consideraciones son erróneas!
El primer punto cae en la trampa de asumir que tu oponente sabe lo que está haciendo - y no tiene por que ser así, el segundo punto de olvidar el hecho de que el alfil de las negras es mucho más esencial para la defensa de las casillas negras que el alfil de las blancas para atacarlas, el tercer punto confunde las consideraciones a corto plazo con los objetivos a largo plazo.
Con sus peones en c6, d5, f5 y g6, el negro ha descuidado las casillas de color negro. Las blancas tienen el control de una espléndida casilla central en e5, y las negras no tienen ninguna casilla comparable. El alfil negro en e7 es el cortafuegos de las casillas negras. Cuando se intercambia, la batalla por las casillas negras ha terminado. De hecho, después de 1.Axe7 Cxe7 2.h4! la amenaza de una ruptura h5 está siempre acechando a la posición de las negras y las blancas tienen una gran ventaja.
Si crees que "Su alfil es más útil para él que el mío para ti", cámbialos.
Acepta los retos al final:
CHALLENGES
A challenge for beginners:
the white pawn is about to promote, move one black piece to stop it
Last challenge (activity 1) solution:
The bishop can move to c5
or h6 in order to point to f8
¿Qué bando tiene ventaja de puntos y por qué?
Which side has the points advantage and why?
see you very soon and remember enjoy play, enjoy and learn with CHESS
hasta pronto y recuerda juega, aprende y disfruta con el AJEDREZ
And that's all for this week, see you soon and remember to send me your solutions, questions, comments, and ideas.
See you soon and keep playing
Remember send your challenges, comments and solutions to
Hello, everybody this is Profesor Jake and welcome back to a new season.
For children, chess is a stimulating and fun activity.
For parents and educators, chess is a means to help children develop patience, self-esteem, logical thinking skills, and the ability to concentrate.
This blog is primarily for children who are curious about chess from an educational perspective.
It teaches the basic rules, the movements of the pieces, challenges and their relationship with many other areas.
Para los niños, el ajedrez es una actividad estimulante y divertida.
Para padres y educadores, el ajedrez es un medio para ayudar al
niño a desarrollar la paciencia, la autoestima, las habilidades del
pensamiento lógico y la capacidad de concentración.
Este blog es principalmente para los niños que se acercan con curiosidad al ajedrez desde su vertiente educativa.
Enseñar las reglas básicas, los movimientos de las piezas, desafíos y relación con muchas otras áreas.
Every 2 weeks I'm posting some activities for several levels of players
You can send me the solutions whenever you can, it doesn't matter if one or more solutions, at the same time you can help us to improve with your comments and suggestions
Be kind and polite
About Challenges
If you are having trouble understanding a challenge, just write to me and I will answer the best I can
I will surely help you.
First, there are canbe more than 2 challenges, one of them is for beginners (in green chessboards) and then more challenges related to the videos or the topic of the fortnight.
This week we are working with the chessboard:
Watch the video
And answer next questions:
Centre of the chess board:____
Corner: ____
Queen side: _____
King side: ______
Edge: _____
name the parts of the chessboard
RED: BLUE: GREEN:
write the diagonals:
YELLOW: h7 - g8
PINK: ORANGE:
EXTRA CHALLENGES FOR BEGINNERS:
The black moves. the white pawn is about to promote. Where does the bishop go to capture the pawn before?
Hint: there can be more than 1 solution.
see you very soon and remember enjoy play, enjoy and learn with CHESS
hasta pronto y recuerda juega, aprende y disfruta con el AJEDREZ
And that's all for this week, see you soon and remember to send me your solutions, questions, comments, and ideas.
See you soon and keep playing
Remember send your challenges, comments and solutions to
Hello everybody this is Profesor Jake and welcome back to a new activity.
Esta es la última actividad de la temporada hijo me gustaría que
fuera especial.
Estoy seguro de que puedes jugar al ajedrez en la escuela.
¿Hace cuánto que juegas al ajedrez?
¿Quién fue la primera persona que te enseñó ajedrez?
¿Juegas ajedrez en la escuela?
En mi escuela lo hacemos
Hace tres años empezamos a jugar ajedrez los martes, al principio
jugábamos en la biblioteca, pero... hubo un problema enorme, éramos más de 50
personas así que no teníamos suficiente espacio, entonces la directora nos dejó
jugar. en la cantina y salón de actos del gran colegio
Todos los martes desde el mediodía hasta las 12:30 nos reunimos en
el salón de actos y jugamos al ajedrez, somos tanta gente que necesitamos
comprar más tableros y piezas de ajedrez. Niños de 1º a 6º vienen aquí a
disfrutar, compartir y aprender ajedrez.
Al mismo tiempo hay un taller para que los alumnos de 3º y 4º
aprendan a jugar al ajedrez y realicen actividades relacionadas con nuestro
juego favorito. Tiene una duración de 6 semanas y trabajamos juntos en grupos
pequeños para que sea realmente divertido y todos puedan aprender y mejorar sus
habilidades.
En el vídeo se ven las bondades que conlleva el ajedrez.
This is the
last activity of the season son I would like it to be special.
I am sure you
can play chess at school.
How long have
you been playing chess?
Who was the
first person who taught you chess?
Do you play
chess at school?
At my school,
we do it
Three years
ago we started playing chess on Tuesdays, at first we played in the library,
but... there was a huge problem, there were more than 50 people so we didn't
have enough space, so the director let us play in the “canteen and assembly
hall” of the school
Every Tuesday
from 12:00 to 12:30 we meet in the assembly hall and play chess, there are so
many people that we need to buy more chessboards and pieces. Children from 1st
to 6th come here to enjoy, share and learn chess.
At the same time,
there is a workshop for 3rd and 4th grade students to
learn how to play chess and carry out activities related to our favorite game.
It lasts 6 weeks, we work together in small groups to make it fun, and everyone
can learn and improve their skills.
In the video,
you can see the benefits that chess brings.
RETO CHALLENGE
This week's challenge consists on filling this form
answer some questions and help us to know about what you do with chess in your school
El reto de esta semana consiste en rellenar este formulario
responde algunas preguntas y ayúdanos a saber qué haces con el ajedrez en tu escuela
see you very soon and remember enjoy play, enjoy and learn with CHESS
hasta pronto y recuerda juega, aprende y disfruta con el AJEDREZ
And that's all for this week, see you soon and remember to send me your solutions, questions, comments, and ideas.
See you soon and keep playing
Remember send your challenges, comments and solutions to
explorajake@gmail.com
or via whatsapp to 682336170
or via Twitter@ProfesorJake
Remember I'll see you next June the 6th on our great Explora Festival, with lots of surprises, games and lots of friends and fun
Till then enjoy with chess and with Explora
Recuerda que te veo el próximo 6 de junio en nuestro gran Festival Explora, con muchas sorpresas, juegos y muchos amigos y diversión.
Hasta entonces disfruta con el ajedrez y con Explora
Hi every one, here we are again with a brand new season.
Welcome everybody to your blog where you can find many things about Chess, fun and surprises.
This year we have three blokcs in each activity:
An explanation about facts and rules and tricky things about Chess with challenges and classical diagrams to break your smart minds.
An interview to people and organizations related to Chess activities, expecially educative chess.
And a contest where you have to guess the escape-blog with an especial raffle among all the detective-participants who solve the puzzle every two weeks.
So let's start with the season and its new activities.
You can press here to download or continue reading
On the third page you can find the challenges, send the solutions via email to explorajake@gmail.com or via whatsapp to 682336170 telling you name, surname, nickname and school where you study, I will send you personal correction an a participation card for the very first activity you can collect for the future.
You can watch the new video with many explanations (sorry this week is longer)
We explain the chessboard
How to name the chess pieces in English and Spanish
Practice the challenge to improve your Chess
Puedes ver el vídeo nuevo con muchas explicaciones (lo siento esta semana es más largo)
Explicamos el tablero de ajedrez
Cómo nombrar las piezas en Español e Inglés
Practicar un reto para mejorar tu ajedrez
COME ON!! Try it
If you have any question, need help or any suggestion just tell me and I will try to answer as soon as possible.
The interview, this week I'd like to ask you for some help.
DO you know anybody who plays chess and teaches chess at school or any organization?
Ask him/her if she or he wants to tell us about his her job
I will be pleased to have an appointment with that interesting person.
and finally the SCAPE BLOG
Profesor Jake was assigned to a special mission, Mr. X sent Jake a strange and misterious letter:
Now You have read the misterious letter you can see the first puzzle
And here you are the first HINT
Chess is a board game, a sport and many things more and the most important piece is the KING. (press here to know everything about how it moves)
Although this piece is the MOST important, he is not the most powerful, it moves fordwad, backwards and in diagonal but only ONE square, so he is not the fastest.
How many moves does he need to visit ALL the squares on the Chessboard starting from e-6?
If you have the answer (a number) send it to Profesor Jake (explorajake@gmail.com) or whatsapp682336170with your name, nickname and school before next activity on 21st October 2021 and you will receive a hint to participate in a big raffle.
Si tienes la respuesta envíala por correo a explorajake@gmail.com o por whastapp al 682336170 con tu nombre, apodo y colegio antes de la próxima actividad el 21 de octubre de 2021 y recibirás una pista para participar en un gran sorteo.
I am really happy with your feed-back; I guess you
enjoy the activities…
And now it is time to a new one.
Actually 2 new ones.
The first one for beginners:
You can send me your pictures or in a piece of paper
your solutions:
In
this game the white pieces can give "Check" in many different ways.
Can
you write down the coordinates of the white pieces giving Check?
____ - ____ & ____ - ____
____ - ____& ____ - ____
____ - ____& ____ - ____
Can
you write down the coordinates of the white pieces giving Check?
I
post you a table you can copy it and being creative drawing and coloring the
pieces.
I
am pretty sure you can.
The
second activity is for everybody but maybe you need the help of a person who
can play chess.
I dare you to solve these four Exercises:
A)Who has the best position and why?
White or black ones…
White pieces because:_____________________________________________
Black pieces because: _____________________________________________
B)…and in this one?
Tell me why.
White pieces because:_____________________________________________
Black pieces because: _____________________________________________
C)Choose and justify between the White Knight or the
Black Bishop.
White knight because:_____________________________________________
Black bishop because: _____________________________________________
D) Which Bishop would you like the most?
The B-d3
or the B-d7
White bishop because:_____________________________________________
Black bishop because: _____________________________________________
To solve these problems try to use your chess board
and pieces and play the game against yourself or a mate.
Good luck and enjoy with explorajake.blogspot.com.es
and remember to send me your impressions and solutions by email explorajake@gmail.com or via Whassap to 616097872
