Junior Chess at Southbourne Chess Club
Southbourne chess club is now open on a Friday evening from 6.00pm for both juniors and adults. Southbourne is a friendly informal club so very suitable for juniors. Martin Simons, as the chairman of Southbourne Chess Club, is very supportive of junior chess. It's a very family friendly venue which makes it ideal for young players.
This year, Southbourne Chess Club has seen an ever-growing number of young players coming along and, on any Friday, the club has between 15 and 20 juniors. Junior players range in age from around 7 years up to mid-teens.
Abilities are totally mixed from those who are complete beginners, through those with limited experience to those who are quite experienced and are playing in the local chess league teams. The club is proud to welcome all juniors (and parents) and has juniors travelling from across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and even some from further afield.
Beginners’ chess at Southbourne Chess Club
Currently, Nikki Forster is giving informal, fun chess coaching to beginners from 6.00pm on a Friday at Southbourne for about an hour or just over. The sessions cover a range of topics from the basics of how pieces move to tactics such as forks, pins and skewers and how to checkmate. The juniors also work on chess puzzles and play against each other.
To help beginners become familiar with how the pieces move, the following free Chesskid.com videos are a good starting point and are highly recommended:
Pawn level 1 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-rook
Pawn level 2 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-bishops
Pawn level 3 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-queen
Pawn level 4 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-king
Pawn level 5 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-pawn
Pawn level 6 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-knight
Lots of opportunity for more experienced juniors
The more experienced juniors are enjoying playing each other across the board on a Friday evening and playing adult members of the chess club. There is often an opportunity for them to receive coaching from some of these other regular adult players during this time.
Southbourne Chess Club also has juniors regularly playing for the club in the B&DCL league matches, representing teams at all levels from the D team up to the A team.
The club also has a team in the B&DCL Bacchus League which is aimed at junior and inexperienced chess players. Southbourne strongly encourages as many juniors as possible to play in these matches (the time control is 60 minutes per player). The club sees this as important in the junior’s chess development.
Dorset Junior Chess
Up to date information on junior chess, along with puzzles and fun stuff can be found on the junior chess page of the Dorset Chess website. Junior Chess | Dorset Chess
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Southbourne chess club is now open on a Friday evening from 6.00pm for both juniors and adults. Southbourne is a friendly informal club so very suitable for juniors. Martin Simons, as the chairman of Southbourne Chess Club, is very supportive of junior chess. It's a very family friendly venue which makes it ideal for young players.
This year, Southbourne Chess Club has seen an ever-growing number of young players coming along and, on any Friday, the club has between 15 and 20 juniors. Junior players range in age from around 7 years up to mid-teens.
Abilities are totally mixed from those who are complete beginners, through those with limited experience to those who are quite experienced and are playing in the local chess league teams. The club is proud to welcome all juniors (and parents) and has juniors travelling from across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and even some from further afield.
Beginners’ chess at Southbourne Chess Club
Currently, Nikki Forster is giving informal, fun chess coaching to beginners from 6.00pm on a Friday at Southbourne for about an hour or just over. The sessions cover a range of topics from the basics of how pieces move to tactics such as forks, pins and skewers and how to checkmate. The juniors also work on chess puzzles and play against each other.
To help beginners become familiar with how the pieces move, the following free Chesskid.com videos are a good starting point and are highly recommended:
Pawn level 1 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-rook
Pawn level 2 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-bishops
Pawn level 3 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-queen
Pawn level 4 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-king
Pawn level 5 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-pawn
Pawn level 6 https://www.chesskid.com/lessons/view/meet-the-knight
Lots of opportunity for more experienced juniors
The more experienced juniors are enjoying playing each other across the board on a Friday evening and playing adult members of the chess club. There is often an opportunity for them to receive coaching from some of these other regular adult players during this time.
Southbourne Chess Club also has juniors regularly playing for the club in the B&DCL league matches, representing teams at all levels from the D team up to the A team.
The club also has a team in the B&DCL Bacchus League which is aimed at junior and inexperienced chess players. Southbourne strongly encourages as many juniors as possible to play in these matches (the time control is 60 minutes per player). The club sees this as important in the junior’s chess development.
Dorset Junior Chess
Up to date information on junior chess, along with puzzles and fun stuff can be found on the junior chess page of the Dorset Chess website. Junior Chess | Dorset Chess
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Junior Chess Coaching
Southbourne Junior Chess Club
This club meets at Tuckton Social Club between 6pm to 7.20pm on Friday evenings and offers individual free expert coaching given by regular coaches Nikki Forster, James Forster, Rachel Richardson & Larissa Cuthbert. There is no cost, but donations are welcome. Young juniors should be accompanied by an adult.
Please contact Nikki Forster if you know of any juniors who would be interested in receiving some expert coaching in the Southbourne, Boscombe & Christchurch area on a Friday evening and/or if you are willing to volunteer as a helper.
We always welcome new juniors of all levels and volunteers, so please contact Nikki Forster (Bournemouth & District Chess League & Dorset County Chess Association Junior Chess Coordinator) on 07733 134163 or email [email protected] if you wish to find out more.
Bournemouth Junior Chess Club
Chess coaching for this independent chess club at Bournemouth Library is being run run each Saturday where there are two sessions: 10am to 11am and 11.30am to 12.30am. The cost is £7.50 per hour.
Eric Sachs, Graham Morris, Steve Bailey & Azhar Ghose give expert coaching to the Beginners & Intermediate groups on a one to one basis.
Please contact Eric Sachs ([email protected]) if you know of any juniors in the Bournemouth area who would like to receive expert coaching on a Saturday morning.
More details can be found here ... https://www.bournemouthjuniorchess.com/news/
Wimborne Junior Chess Club
This free junior chess club at Wimborne Library is being run on Saturdays from 10am to 12noon and will run until Saturday 20th July when a break will be taken over the school Summer holidays.
Graham Hillman, Simon Young, Graham White & Jim Newman provided the expert coaching. Please contact Graham Hillman ([email protected]) if you know of any juniors in the Wimborne or surrounding area who would like to receive expert coaching on a Saturday morning and if you would like to volunteer as a helper.
This club meets at Tuckton Social Club between 6pm to 7.20pm on Friday evenings and offers individual free expert coaching given by regular coaches Nikki Forster, James Forster, Rachel Richardson & Larissa Cuthbert. There is no cost, but donations are welcome. Young juniors should be accompanied by an adult.
Please contact Nikki Forster if you know of any juniors who would be interested in receiving some expert coaching in the Southbourne, Boscombe & Christchurch area on a Friday evening and/or if you are willing to volunteer as a helper.
We always welcome new juniors of all levels and volunteers, so please contact Nikki Forster (Bournemouth & District Chess League & Dorset County Chess Association Junior Chess Coordinator) on 07733 134163 or email [email protected] if you wish to find out more.
Bournemouth Junior Chess Club
Chess coaching for this independent chess club at Bournemouth Library is being run run each Saturday where there are two sessions: 10am to 11am and 11.30am to 12.30am. The cost is £7.50 per hour.
Eric Sachs, Graham Morris, Steve Bailey & Azhar Ghose give expert coaching to the Beginners & Intermediate groups on a one to one basis.
Please contact Eric Sachs ([email protected]) if you know of any juniors in the Bournemouth area who would like to receive expert coaching on a Saturday morning.
More details can be found here ... https://www.bournemouthjuniorchess.com/news/
Wimborne Junior Chess Club
This free junior chess club at Wimborne Library is being run on Saturdays from 10am to 12noon and will run until Saturday 20th July when a break will be taken over the school Summer holidays.
Graham Hillman, Simon Young, Graham White & Jim Newman provided the expert coaching. Please contact Graham Hillman ([email protected]) if you know of any juniors in the Wimborne or surrounding area who would like to receive expert coaching on a Saturday morning and if you would like to volunteer as a helper.