Friday's "Chess @ the Mall"

Friday was a busy day for me, but all got taken of.
A morning chess class, then it was off to Weslaco
to train Bradley McCaleb. He's a new "candidate
top board", who  will compete in Nashville, TN at
the High School National. After his lesson, I drove
to the Mall for the weekly "Chess @ the Mall".
Matthew A. Cohen was there with his mom having
some Chick-fil-A. He quickly started to help set up
the boards and we started to play a couple of games.
Then came the powerful chess team  "Torre Fuerte".
Eliud Ramirez, Ramiro Barron, Luis Matus, Rafrel
and Jorge all ready for some chess matches.
Some of my chess students came in as well:
Guadalupe Lopez, Melissa Medina, Jonathan &
Osvaldo Cortez, Carlos Lerma, and all started to play.
Also present was Little powerhouse Jesse Guillen,
Oziel Juarez, Louie, and Dr. Dina Wahab who saw us
playing and decided to stay for a game. She just moved
from New York and will join us as her schedule allows it.
Two other college guys came in and started to play some chess.

"Chess @ the Mall" Friday

Who wants to play chess? Well, be at Sunrise Mall
Food Court this Friday starting at 5:00 P.M. Bring
your set and clock for some exciting chess matches.
Eliud Raamirez, now known as "the Royal Bishop"
will be there to battle for the center,  invade your
camp and make your King surrender.  Many good
battles in your chess future to you "Royal Bishop".
Also attending Friday evening will be the powerful
church chess team: "Torre Fuerte"; their game is
aggressively improving. If you like Blitz games,
then little Jesse will be there with his clock. I know
many other chess players will be there as well. So
come early and stay later, but enjoy the
Royal Game of Chess.

World-wide Chess.com Chess Day

Are you ready for a afternoon of chess?
On Saturday, April 16, 2011 Chess.com
will have a world-wide day of chess.
the Brownsville Royal Knights will host
the event at Sunrise Mall Food Court.
Make plans to attend and meet new chess
players from the area. I am elCaballeroBRK
on this chess site. Check out chess.com or
http://www.meetup.com/ChessCom/Brownsville-Royal-Knights/90590/?a=bn1_l1for more INFO.

Friday Evening: "Chess @ the Mall"

Early Friday I started to text everyone: "Chess @ the Mall"
6:00 p.m. bring your set and play a game." The calls started
to come in.  Oziel Juarez needed a drive, so we were
running late, but when we got there the action on the
64 squares began.  I decided to play King's Gambit in all
my games.  It's was great attacking the f7 square and
hunting my opponent' King.
Oziel Juarez started to play with Eliud Ramirez, while
I played Ramiro Barron and Dominic J. Beltran,  yes
two boards (the idea was to have everyone playing).
Then Jorge came looking for a Blitz games and little
Jesse Guillen was ready for the challenge.
Brianna was there for one game against Anthony Guerra
and then when to the MOIVES.  But Jesse took care
of business, even winning one game against one of the
adults without the use of his Queen. That's right - no
Queen on the board - He Won!!!!


Luis Matus, came in and played against many players.
He is developing his game. Rafrel, Matthew, and Ben
jumped into some matches. We started at 6:00 P.M.
finished at 9:30 P.M. Yes "Chess @ the Mall" is ALIVE
and ready for action. There were six boards going through
out the evening.  Everyone had a chance to play everyone.
At the end of the evening , we went over the Knight and
Bishop with King vs. Lone King checkmate. I demonstrated
the use of the Deletang's Triangles and then when home.