Learn how to play exciting chess and improve your game!
Please note – these will generally run every week except on long weekends and during school holidays
VENUE: The Chess Centre, 10 Ranelagh St Adelaide 5000
Each Coaching Class is suitable for youngsters of all levels and ages (6+) – from beginner (but a knowledge of how the pieces move will be assumed) to advanced. The class covers many key ideas and consist of short lessons and games, all designed to help students discover the real joy of chess.
All the students play each other in a friendly, social atmosphere.
Youngsters older than 6 should have no problems coping with the 2 hours session – the time just flies. Parents are very welcome to stay for all sessions if they wish.
Fee: The cost for the morning session is $15.
Please note: These classes will only go ahead at the Chess Centre if there are no restrictions placed on them in SA. We will be following all the guidelines to try to ensure a Covid-Safe environment.
Alan Goldsmith has been SA Champion 4 times, is President of the SA Chess Association, the chess writer for the Sunday Mail and he really loves chess!
Bored?? Locked up at home with nothing to do? Use the time to discover the world’s most beautiful game!
Mondays from 6pm – 7:30pm
The cost per session is $15 – pay by EFT
Beginners – Advanced – all levels – very social – gossip – humour!
A big shout-out to all the adults who attended the classes at Joe’s Extra News Agency at Hyde Park in 2019 – the fun continues ..
We will be using Zoom to connect with everyone – you should download Zoom from zoom.com – it will only take a few minutes and simply follow the instructions. We will also be using LiChess.com and ChessKid.com but can explain how easy it is to obtain these.
The lesson will consist of a demonstration of some key ideas – openings, tactics, strategies, good, useful stuff – on a chessboard on the screen for a short time using either LiChess or ChessKid and then you can play games with each other or against Alan online and try some beautiful puzzles.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84697913985? pwd=bW5wRTJDZmtqMC9ST1VBVXBSbW9zUT09
Meeting ID: 846 9791 3985 Passcode: 021068
Intermediate Players: 8am-9:00
New/young players (6+): 9am – 10am
Advanced/older players: 10:30am – noon
Cost $15 per session
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89722940792?
pwd=aU5LWVBsTVR6eVpQOXJQcS9rOXNIQT09
Meeting ID: 897 2294 0792 Passcode: 038947
For further information or to discuss alternate times or purchasing chess equipment, please ring Alan on 0401 672 481
Knights & Bytes has been teaching chess in schools locally for many years. We have taught thousands of students and many have gone on to become champions.
“Thanks so much for teaching at our school again this year we really appreciate it. Your passion for chess is infectious and the students learn so much from you.”
Chess offers students and schools many benefits and while we run chess clubs before school, at lunchtimes and after-school, we often teach whole classes at a time. In 2018, for example, we taught all the Year 2s (5 classes) one lesson a week for two terms at Linden Park PS, while at Grange PS we taught 14 classes from Years 3-7, a series of 3 lessons followed by a Tournament for each year level. We also did this with 16 classes at Westbourne Park PS in Term 3 and at Rosary School we gave 5 lessons to 6 classes in Term 1.
We taught chess at the following schools in 2018/19:
Grange PS (every Tuesday 8AM)
Linden Park PS (Tuesdays 5 classes Terms 2 and 3)
Mitcham PS (every Monday after-school all year)
Pembroke Senior School (Thursdays PM)
Pulteney Senior School (Wednesdays -Lunchtime)
Rosary (Term 3)
Seymour Junior School (Tuesday lunchtimes)
Star of the Sea (8AM on Thursdays all year)
St Ignatius’ Junior (Mondays Lunchtime Terms 2 and 3)
Parkside PS (every Tuesday after-school all year)
Unley PS (Friday late lunchtimes all year)
Westbourne Pk PS (Term 3)
Westminster (Wednesday after-school)
and many others…..
We also have run special one-off events or one-day visits and have accompanied many teams to the Australian Schools Teams Championship in December each year.
School Coaching
If you would like your students to be involved with chess, Knights & Bytes can provide a coaching service for your school – before or after-school, lunchtimes and in lesson times. We are able to coach small groups or whole classes and either the school pays or if the parents wish to pay, then it ranges from $3 – $5 per student, with a minimum of 8 students. In many cases, the cost is $40 per student per term. If you would like to have classes during school time, our rate is $55 per class. All prices include GST.
If you would like a free demonstration at your school at any time, please give Alan a ring on 0401 67 2481 (if he is not in his shop) and schedule an hour or two and he will come and take on any number of students simultaneously – he finished equal 4th in Australia years ago and has been SA State Champion four times and just loves a challenge. Students who can beat him will win a prize!
If your school would like a day visit by Alan Goldsmith, please give us a ring – our rates are sensible (around the $330 mark depending on where the school is) and we guarantee your students will enjoy it.
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Alexis [3.5] : Zach T [4] 2 Louis [3.5] : Seth [3.5] 3 Hunter [3] : Sunny [3] 4 Eleanor [2.5] : Zac W [2.5] 5 Josh [2] : Abby [2.5] 6 Divyan [2] : Gabriel [2] 7 Emilio [1.5] : Toby [2] 8 Emily [1.5] : Ved [1.5] 9 Oliver M [1] : Mary [1] 10 Anamarie [1] : Emma [1] 11 Yaash [.5] : Isabelle [.5] 12 George [1.5] 1:0 BYE
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Alexis [3.5] : Zach T [4] 2 Louis [3.5] : Seth [3.5] 3 Hunter [3] : Sunny [3] 4 Eleanor [2.5] : Zac W [2.5] 5 Josh [2] : Abby [2.5] 6 Divyan [2] : Gabriel [2] 7 Emilio [1.5] : Toby [2] 8 Emily [1.5] : Ved [1.5] 9 Oliver M [1] : Mary [1] 10 Anamarie [1] : Emma [1] 11 Yaash [.5] : Isabelle [.5] 12 George [1.5] 1:0 BYE
Thanks to a strange mixture of Covid-19 and the release on Netflix of the series ‘Queen’s Gambit’, chess is once again experiencing a huge boost in popularity not seen since the heady days of the Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky Match back in 1972.
There are now millions of people taking up the game and loving it! There is lots to learn but it is enormous fun and you simply must remember that if you lose a game, put it down to experience – a lesson whose ideas you can employ yourself!
Knights & Bytes has lots of plans for 2021 but briefly, if you or your children would like to learn the game, consider trying:
Our online classes on Saturday mornings for Juniors or Monday evenings for Adults
Our classes on a Sunday morning at the Chess Centre from 10am-12 noon
Our Holiday classes on the Thursday 8th July and Friday 9th July 2021
And if you want chess equipment we sell club sets and weighted sets, folding chess boards and mats, chess clocks and books. The cost for postage is generally $15 but will be adjusted if you pick a giant set etc.
We also have giant garden sets, half-size garden sets and third-size sets all gorgeous and would make brilliant Birthday Presents. The Giant Garden Set costs just $600 and are a magnet for most kids – wonderful to hear them working in teams to devise devilish plans and tricks.