Monday, October 27, 2008

Chess class on Oct 26

It was after a long time I was in the Gurappanapalya for chess workshop. I was little scared, since out there I had been to restore the integrity with sweet kids. Especially with Nishanth…..


I entered the venue…and I saw Mohan carrying a small girl kid and she was so cute and smiling….
I asked him to gather all others for another 15 minutes…..
I was a clearing for very less people to be there
Then saw Akash with PC inside the computer center…… Mohan told Akash to invite Vinod, Nishanth and Saraswati…
Akash went to call them
Now I had an opportunity to check the status of Mohan….. Looked like these guys have made their environment to start playing chess….. He said his dad plays very well…and this small guy plays with his day whenever they have time . I got to know they play whenver they have time in their family

After some 10 min…. Akash was back with telling Vinod is out of station…..Nishanth does not want to come….. Saraswati also…. It looked strange for me.. I got that they are dealing with something…then again told him to call Saraswati for 5 min….He went out again.…..
Mean time strange thing is Nishanth was in…. looked like he is ill..he was coughing looked like having fever…
This small guy remembers 2 things very strongly…… 2 openings that recognises the opponents blunder….. and mate the opponent.
Well looked like all his games are still around those games...This gave me 3 insights …
One… I have not given coaching on playing small games which might interest him and allowing them to learn tactics….
Second I got that the boy has good interest and he wants it in his way…….. He will remember everything that interests him…Might be that is same with every child there…
Third is even for me it is the same I remember things that interests meJ
And I spent a half an hour talking with him telling how he can improve playing and keep up the tempo…
Now even at this time Saraswati was not in….
I thought it is good to come back…So said bye to every one in the hall…..
And was on the way back at Saraswati’s house stood for a while…
She came out.. There were lot many guests… So she was taking care of them..
Created the same thing with her like Nishanth..And also completed with her… And also told her when we have the new model (prepared with materials to teach and coach coming to them regularly)… we will again the start the classes…..She was happy to know about my engagement and marriage…What made me surprised is she was interested to come to my marriage…It shows that each one of us go there matters to them at gurappanapalya ……
Well I was happy I went this Sunday…
Now I see there are lot many things possible for me to create for them……
One more thing I noticed is Might be I dint made everything I said possible there in last couple of month …
But the love and passion for chess is spread out there..
Out of this time I spent with kids…. I got one thing powerful is
I need to make a list of chess matches which will interest them…..Which includes opening theories…Which is like a chess syllabus for students who are beginners want to reach the category to intermediate players this is the first action item for me....