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billyboy62

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Chess lectures
Jul 19^th, 2010, 4:33pm

Hi all
I have arranged for Norman Stephenson to give two lectures at Darlington chess club the dates are Aug 9th and Aug 23rd
Start time 7.15 ish
These lectures are open to all players from Durham and Cleveland i would like as many players as possable to attend.
This is a free lecture.
Our premises are lisanced so drinks will be available from the bar.

I am leaving it open to Norman what the lectures will be about but i will post the topics here when Norman lets me know

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BrianW

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Re: Chess lectures
Reply #1 - Jul 23^rd, 2010, 12:21pm

Glad to see another club taking over from The Griffin this summer. Well done Bill.
These were definitely the most popular summer events that we ran at The Griffin. Most people weren't to keen to play in a tournament, but a lot seemed to relish the opportunity to gen up on a bit of theory, in preparation for next season.
I'll definitely try and get down to Darlington myself as I really enjoyed Norman's and Dave's previous talks. My game badly needs it too!
Decided to have a break from organising summer events at the club this year. The congress kept me pretty busy though instead Wink

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billyboy62 FIDE Master CHESS NE1 Posts: 389	Re: Chess lectures Reply #2 - Jul 24^th, 2010, 11:16pm If you are going to attend the lectures can you please post on this link or email me at william.metcalfe@btinternet.com Norman will be printing something up for the lectures and he would like to have a idea of how many people are going to attend.
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billyboy62 FIDE Master CHESS NE1 Posts: 389	Re: Chess lectures Reply #3 - Aug 4^th, 2010, 6:26pm Just a quick reminder to let people know the lecture is def taking place on monday hopefully we will get a good turnout.
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BrianW

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Reply #4 - Aug 10^th, 2010, 10:21am

Many thanks to Norman and Bill (for arranging it all) for last night's interesting lecture. Norman demonstrated the technique of advancing pawns to open up lines of attack. I was hooked Wink

! Hooked enough to try and attend again in two weeks time.
I believe Norman is open to suggestions of topics to discuss next time. Maybe this forum could be used to see what people's thoughts are?

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billyboy62

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Reply #5 - Aug 10^th, 2010, 3:06pm

I would like to thank Norman for last night instructive lecture it was a real eyeopener as to how stronger players think.
I would also like to thank everybody that attended especially the people that travelled down from the Peterlee chess club and the Griffin chess club.
I think everybody enjoyed the lecture last night as it was a very proactive lecture Norman got the oudiance involved as much as possable.
The best thing for me last night was seeing two Junior players in attendance i hope Colins daughter and Nial learned something from the lecture.

I hope you can all attend the next lecture it would be nice to see somemore players from other clubs attending.

As Brian has already stated in him post if anybody has anything they would like to see Norman do a lecture on please post here or contact myself

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Reply #6 - Aug 10^th, 2010, 3:36pm

Fantastic night whereby everyone in attendance would have learnt a great deal to take back home and apply the ideas in their own games. People should really make an effort to get to any of Normans lectures, in a few hours you can absorb and retain more information than weeks and weeks of studying alone. Thanks Norman, we all really enjoyed it. Thanks Bill and Darlington club for organising it too!

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IanE11 National Master CHESS NE1 Its good craic! Posts: 127	Re: Chess lectures Reply #7 - Aug 15^th, 2010, 3:43pm Was on holiday last week but will try and et to next weeks.
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BrianW FIDE Master Posts: 228 Gender:	Re: Chess lectures Reply #8 - Aug 15^th, 2010, 11:31pm You won't regret it Ian. Norman's knowledge and delivery technique is excellent.
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billyboy62

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Re: Chess lectures
Reply #9 - Aug 16^th, 2010, 5:24pm

Just a reminder about next weeks lecture
There will be two subjects covered in the lecture.
How to keep the inititive when you have got it following on from that is how to win a won game that is part 1
Part two is what to do in cramped positions or positions where the opponent has all the space.

I think these are two subjects that will intrest all players.

Hope to see plenty of you there next Monday 7.15 start

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Bishopbasher Admin Riding the magic carpet. Posts: 615 Gender:	Re: Chess lectures Reply #10 - Aug 16^th, 2010, 9:32pm A couple of excellent themes there! I'll try to get down there too.
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bill Grandmaster CHESS NE1 Its good craic! Posts: 1067 Gender:	Re: Chess lectures Reply #11 - Aug 18^th, 2010, 9:27am oops. I told Graham it was Monday just gone. Was going to go myself but something came up.
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billyboy62

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Re: Chess lectures
Reply #12 - Aug 24^th, 2010, 12:03am

I would like to thank Norman for another excellent lecture it was once more very enlightning and enjoyable.I would also like to thank the 22 people that turned up that included players from Richmond,Durham,Elmwood,Redcar and Peterlee i hope you all had a good evening i will try and put more events on like this in the next 12 months if people would be intrested in attending them.

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IanE11 National Master CHESS NE1 Its good craic! Posts: 127	Re: Chess lectures Reply #13 - Aug 24^th, 2010, 7:45am Couldn't make it a agian, bugger.
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bill Grandmaster CHESS NE1 Its good craic! Posts: 1067 Gender:	Re: Chess lectures Reply #14 - Aug 24^th, 2010, 10:28am Same here I was disappointed I couldn't make it. This is exactly the sort of thing we should have more of. Well done Bill and Dave. Darlo and the Griffin showing us the way forward.
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