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Chess Summer Camp (@St. Thomas School)
Mon, Jul 22
|St. Thomas Aquinas School (Bethany Room)
A week-long, all day chess summer camp focusing on tactics and strategy, with outdoor recreation time too!
Time & Location
Jul 22, 2024, 9:00 AM – Jul 26, 2024, 3:30 PM
St. Thomas Aquinas School (Bethany Room), 4600 N Illinois St, Indianapolis, IN 46208, USA
About The Event
Kids in 2nd-7th grade (will consider other grades case by case) who know how the chess pieces move and want to begin to unveil the beauty of the game at the next level are welcome to sign up for chess camp! It will be 9am to 3:30pm, Monday through Friday.
Coach Mike Chapuran (a USCF-certified chess coach and tournament director, and founder of Indy Chess) will provide a limit of 18 students all of the following:
Lessons on calculating before moving;
Tactical games like chess hot potato to practice newly taught patterns like forks, pins, skewers, and more;
Checkmating patterns with just a Queen, just a Rook, and a solitary pawn promoting.
Positive peer review of games;