7/17/2015 – It was the second edition of an initiative to get children all over the
world to play chess. 4,200 competitive games took place in a special Yes2Chess
room on Playchess, and in person,
and 40 finalists from the UK, Spain, Portugal, the US, Sweden, Germany,
Denmark and Norway played the final matches of the international tournament
in Hyde Park on 24th June to determine
the overall winning school.
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Yes2Chess Grand Final
In June 2015, the Yes2Chess Grand Finals were once again staged at the
Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time music festival in Hyde
Park. The second edition of the tournament followed the first’s successful
formula, as primary school teams from Denmark, Germany, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, and the USA were flown to London for a three day programme
of events. The schools from Norway and Denmark took part in over the board
qualifying tournaments, whilst the schools from Germany, Portugal, Spain,
Sweden, the UK and the USA qualified via the private Yes2Chess room on Playchess.
A total of 40,000 children played in the qualification tournaments on Playchess
and in person at a series of regional heats, from November 2014 until June
2015. In Germany alone it was 6,000 students, and it was the team of the
Käthe Kollwitz Gymnasium from Saxony-Anhalt (formerly East Germany)
that won the coveted place for the finals in London.
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William Patten School in Hackney were the UK winners, so only had to take
a bus to the luxurious Cumberland Hotel in Marble Arch, where the delegations
stayed throughout the programme. After a buffet reception, where the teams
and parents were welcomed by Payal Jain from Barclaycard and Malcolm Pein,
the Chief Executive of Chess in Schools and Communities, the children played
their first games of chess as all 40 of them, plus two additional children
from the delegation, took on British Chess Champion David Howell in a simultaneous
display.
GM Howell posing with school staff at the
Yes2Chess final [photo Ray Morris-Hill]
David nearly swept the boards but a couple of wins slipped away. He lost
to Kevin Pan (Mission Elementary, USA) and conceded a draw to Afras Mansoor
(Sorasbygda Skole, Norway):
[Event "Yes2Chess simul"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"]
[White "Howell, David"] [Black "Mansoor, Afras"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO
"A45"] [WhiteElo "2698"] [PlyCount "82"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 d5
4. f3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bf5 6. e4 dxe4 7. Qe2 exf3 8. Nxf3 c6 9. O-O-O e6 10.
Ne5 Bd6 11. g4 Bg6 12. h4 h5 13. Nxg6 fxg6 14. Qxe6+ Be7 15. Bd3 Qd7 16.
Bxg6+ Kd8 17. Qxd7+ Kxd7 18. g5 Nd5 19. Bf5+ Ke8 20. Nxd5 cxd5 {[#]Howell's
opening gambit has paid off; after some inaccurate play by Mansoor, White
is a clear pawn up, his pieces are tremendously active, and Black has
forfeited his castling rights.} 21. Rde1 {Logical, but had this not been
a simultaneous, Howell would surely have played:} (21. Bc8 $1) 21... Nc6
22. c3 Kd8 {setting a trap.} 23. Re6 {and Howell, distracted by the pressure
of playing so many strong players, falls straight into it!} Rf8 {and now
Bg6+ is no longer possible.} 24. Bd6 Rxf5 25. Bxe7+ Kd7 {In fact} (25...
Nxe7 {is possible -- the position is unclear after} 26. Rhe1 Nc8 27. Re8+
Kd7 28. Rg8 Rf7 29. Ree8) 26. Rhe1 Re8 27. Rd6+ Kc7 28. Rg6 Rxe7 $2 ({After}
28... Kd7 { White has nothing better than} 29. Rd6+ {and forcing a repetition.})
29. Rxc6+ $1 {winning back material -- but Mansoor expertly activates
his f5 rook to hold the ending.} Kxc6 30. Rxe7 Rf4 31. Rxg7 Rxh4 32. Rh7
Rh1+ 33. Kc2 h4 34. a4 h3 35. b4 h2 36. Rh6+ Kd7 37. Rh7+ Ke6 38. Kb2
Kf5 39. Rh5 Kg6 40. Rh8 Kxg5 41. a5 a6 1/2-1/2
On 23rd June the eight delegations were welcomed at the House of Lords,
the upper house of the UK Parliament, by Baroness Frances D’Souza,
Lord Lyndon Harrison, Yasmin Qureshi MP and Dave Chan, CEO of Barclaycard
Europe. All four spoke of the benefits of learning chess in school. Baroness
Angela Smith, Lord Willy Bach, Jesse Norman MP and David Mowat MP were also
in attendance. After the speeches, there was a friendly game between Lord
Harrison and Dave Chan, who were partnered with twins from the Spanish team,
Yaiza and Paula Ruperez. Here are the moves of what turned out to be a very
correctly played game!
It should be pointed out that Lord Harrison recently drew with Garry Kasparov
in a simultaneous display at the House of Lords, and held Paul Keres in
another simultaneous back in 1962!
Lord Lyndon Harrison, flanked by Dave Chan,
Yasmin Qureshi MP and the Ruperez twins
After the House of Lords the delegations crossed the road to the House
of Commons for a guided tour, which was followed by lunch and a visit to
the Tower of London. At the end of a tiring day it was time to relax at
the hotel and prepare for the battles ahead.
And so to finals day! The Cumberland is a short walk away from Hyde Park
and we made an early start to allow time for some photographs. The parents
were treated to some fine hospitality in the festival grandstand, courtesy
of Barclaycard, as the players did battle. Schools in the CSC programme
were also invited to Hyde Park to participate in a human chess game, played
with 32 actors in full costume. It was a wonderful spectacle as the players
paraded around the park before taking their places on the giant board.
The human chess players greet their spectators
A view of the human chess game from the Better
View platform
The final proper saw the teams split into two groups of four, playing each
of the other teams once. The winners of each group would then face each
other for the Yes2Chess International Challenge trophy. After a keenly contested
day’s play, Mission Elementary of the USA emerged triumphant.
Kevin Pan maintained his form with a tremendous performance at the finals,
winning all four of his games. In the championship match between Mission
Elementary and Escola Filipa de Lencastre, from Portugal, he uncorked a
clever piece sacrifice:
[Event "Yes2Chess Final"] [Site "Hyde Park"] [Date "2015.06.24"] [Round
"4.3"] [White "Prazeres, Tiago Pires Aze"] [Black "Pan, Kevin"] [Result
"0-1"] [ECO "C55"] [WhiteElo "1390"] [PlyCount "64"] [EventDate "2015.??.??"]
[WhiteClock "0:14:52"] [BlackClock "0:10:08"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4
exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. Nxd4 Ne5 7. Bb3 Be7 8. Nc3 Bg4 9. f3 Bh5
10. Be3 O-O 11. Qe1 a6 12. Qg3 Bg6 13. Nf5 Bxf5 14. exf5 Qd7 15. f4 Neg4
{Black has just met 15.f4 with 15...Neg4, seeking to trade minor pieces.}
16. h3 {Perhaps White wanted to support g4, but} (16. Bd4 {seems more
natural; if Black wants to trade bishop for knight, he must play} c5 {,
weakening the d5 square.}) 16... Nxe3 17. Qxe3 Qxf5 $1 (17... c6 18. g4
d5) 18. Qxe7 (18. g4 Qc5 (18... Qd7 19. g5 Nh5 20. f5 {gives White good
compensation for the pawn.})) 18... Qc5+ 19. Kh1 Rae8 20. Na4 (20. Ne4
{is best, after} Rxe7 ({Not} 20... Nxe4 {, which fails to} 21. Bxf7+ $1)
21. Nxc5 dxc5 22. Rfe1 Rfe8 23. Rxe7 Rxe7 {Black will have to work hard
to convert the endgame.} 24. Rd1) 20... Qc6 21. Bd5 Qxd5 ({In fact} 21...
Nxd5 {, allowing the queen to escape, is even stronger, as the knight
on a4 is hanging and ...Ne3 is a threat. For instance} 22. Qg5 h6 23.
Qh5 Ne3 24. Rf2 Qxa4) 22. Qxc7 Rc8 23. Qb6 Rxc2 24. Rg1 Qb5 25. Qxb5 axb5
26. Nc3 Rxb2 27. Rad1 b4 28. Nb5 Ne4 29. Rde1 f5 30. g4 Nf2+ 31. Kg2 Nd3+
32. Kf1 Rf2# 0-1
The final standings
Mission San Jose Elementary School (USA)
Escola Filipa de Lencastre (Portugal)
Sorasbygda Skole (Norway)
Koge Private Realskole (Denmark)
Hokasens Skola (Sweden)
Kaethe Kollwitz Gymnasium (Germany)
CEIP Diego Lainez (Spain)
William Patten Primary School (UK)
After prize giving there was time to play chess on the Better View platform:
Then the delegations set off to see the West End musical The
Lion King before jetting back home the following day.
What is Yes2Chess?
Yes2Chess is a project developed by Chess in Schools and Communities and
Barclaycard which combines mentoring in schools, where Barclaycard employees
volunteer to assist in chess in schools projects, and a competition held
mostly online in eight countries.
The Yes2Chess International Challenge
Each of the eight teams that came to London had won their national competition
played on the Yes2Chess server or, in the case of the Danish and Norwegian
teams, a face to face competition. Teams are made up of five players from
the same school, with each team containing at least one female player. The
eligible countries are: Denmark, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Spain,
the UK and USA.
Thanks and Facts
A huge thank you to tournament director Alex Holowczak, who was often
up into the early hours of the morning supervising the games between the
American teams online! Thanks also to Andrew Blantz, the project manager
from Barclaycard, and CSC’s Tereza Pribanova, who ensured everything,
went smoothly. The event was also supported by volunteers from Barclays
and Barclaycard. In all, 372 Barclaycard employees volunteered to support
Yes2Chess, either through school mentoring or at tournaments in the eight
countries. There was great emphasis this year on increasing the number of
girls, and that rose to 31%. Yes2Chess impacted over 40,000 children, nearly
double the number in 2014. To find out more about Yes2Chess, and to enter
next year, please visit the official Yes2Chess
web site.
Joys
of chess: "Rechtes gegen Linkes Alsterufer"
4/15/2015 – Every year the town of Hamburg, Germany, supported by
ChessBase, Barclaycard, and Yes2Chess, celebrates one of the biggest chess
events of the world: "Rechtes gegen Linkes Alsterufer". Schools
west of the river "Alster" play against schools from east of the
"Alster". More than 2.500 students turned this event into a lively,
funny, and very loud celebration of the joys of chess.
Barclaycard
Yes2Chess tournament 2015
3/13/2015 – Like to play in an international chess tournament, via
the Internet, as a school team? If you do you can win a fun-filled trip
to London in June, to take part in Finals Weekend. The tournament is open
to primary/ elementary school teams from eight countries. Participation
is free. In this report we are going to tell you how to register and play.
It's really quite simple!
Barclaycard
Yes2Chess tournament 2015
3/2/2015 – How would you like to play in an international chess tournament,
via the Internet, as a school team. You will be competing for an extraordinary
prize: each national tournament winner will receive a fun-filled trip to
London in June 2015 to take part in Finals. The tournament is open to primary/
elementary school teams from eight countries, registry and participation
is free. Don't miss it!
Yes2Chess:
team finals in London
7/8/2014 – It is one of the most inspiring events we have attended
in years: eight teams of elementary schoolchildren from eight different
countries, who qualified in a massive Playchess tournament, are now in London
for a face-to-face showdown. The hosts, Barclaycard, have put in a tremendous
effort to make it a memorable stay for the visitors, all of who are now
sure to say Yes2Chess.
Scholastic
chess making headlines
3/24/2014 – In the middle of the last century a group of teachers
in Hamburg, Germany, started a tournament with 160 students. Today, 66 years
later, the annual event has over 2500 participants, and includes play against
remote opponents via Playchess.com. The event was supported on the English
side by Barclaycard, which is also spearheading another scholastic chess
initiative, Yes2Chess.
Yes2Chess
... with Felix Magath
3/10/2014 – Two weeks ago, as part of the "Yes2Chess" scholastic
chess initiative, patron Felix Magath attended a discussion panel evening
at a prominent location in Hamburg. Representatives from the fields of sports,
education, politics and business talked about the further development of
chess in schools in Hamburg. Afterwards, Felix Magath explained why he had
chosen not to go to Hamburger SV.
Yes2Chess:
A Clever Move by Barclaycard
1/15/2014 – Chess is good for children. It teaches them logical thinking,
social interaction, perseverance, and above all concentration. Barclaycard,
Europe's leading issuer of credit cards, has partnered with Chess in Schools
and Communities and Playchess.com to create a new Internet home for schools
across Europe and the USA. Students can play each other online and win an
amazing prize.
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