Welcome New Members and Pins homework

What homework? well yes homework, if you want to get better at chess you have to practice, sent home today was Pins practice. A pin is where a piece threatens the King with another piece in the way of the king. The piece in between the king and the threatening piece is the "pinned" piece. It is a very useful tactic to capturing the opponents pieces without getting captured yourself. The trick though is to learn chess notation. I will be working with the kids next week. The exercises shouldn't take too long, and are of course voluntary.

 Not much action on the ladder except my computer (or perhaps my human error in data entry) did not record the games correctly from two weeks ago.  I have been trying to edit names of students that are not back this year.  But I also wanted to leave students who were here last year to retain their rank on the ladder.  Hopefully I got it right this week.  Sorry Patrick for not getting your game recorded, but it should be correct now.


1   0  3  0 Peter Adams                       
  2  +1  3  0 Sebastian Rutkowski               
  3  -1  1  0 Carter Phillips                   
  4   0  3  0 Patrick Selby                     
  5   0  0  0 Dominic Rutkowski                 
  6   0  0  0 Parker Imborek                    
  7   0  0  0 Elias Davis                       
  8   0  0  0 Keenai Fender                     
  9  +3  0  0 BJ Wolfe                          
 10  +3  0  0 Sam Callahan                      
 11  +3  0  0 Brady Gromacki                    
 12  +3  1  0 Aidan Jacobsen                    
 13  +5  0  0 Teddy Kim                         
 14  +6  1  0 Nickolas Ferrel                   
 15  +6  0  0 Jackson Seering                   
 16  +9  1  0 Max Gerke                         
 17  +5  1  0 Sam  Showers                      
 18  +5  0  0 Ethan Truman                      
 19  +5  0  0 Davis  Nepple                     
 20  +5  0  0 Tyler Lieberman                   
 21  +5  0  0 Luke McConnell                    
 22  +5  0  0 Gable  Kauffman                   
 23  +5  0  0 Ashley Niemiec                    
 24  +5  0  0 Scheer Iona                       
 25  +5  0  0 Rahman Afreen                     
 26   0  0  0 Gretchen Gerke                    
 27   0  0  0 Allison Phillips