Synchronized Chess?

DavidEB wrote in post #2539726
Sys - your chess shots have gone from pretty good to absolutely great. I'm pretty sure Chess Life would publish them, if you tried. Fine composition and tecnical execution.

Thank you so much for your compliments! I've taken to heart those suggestions that you and others have made when I previously posted my chess photos.

Okay, you lost me here.

4x4rock wrote in post #2539776
Great shots. I love the stare shot too.

Is this in school or club?

Thanks!

The location is inside a local school gymnasium, but the event is the biggest scholastic chess tournament offerred locally and attractive enough to draw best players from out of town. Several of the elementary schools here have the chess team, and they compete for the school district championship, but that's an entirely different event from these scholastic tournaments. There are also a few chess clubs in town, but they don't organize any tournaments. They're just there to have anyone come and play.

your son will know. in one shot he has the rook on the second rank and the queen behind it (double battery). Next shot he's moved the rook up, moved the queen up, and brought in his second rook (triple battery). Thinking that through is pretty good chess for a kid his age.

DavidEB wrote in post #2540220
your son will know. in one shot he has the rook on the second rank and the queen behind it (double battery). Next shot he's moved the rook up, moved the queen up, and brought in his second rook (triple battery). Thinking that through is pretty good chess for a kid his age.

Okay, I was pretty sure you were talking in chess lingo, which I'm somewhat familiar with, but I've never heard the "double battery" or "triple..." I don't know what he did exactly, since I was more busy taking pictures, but you can see his checkmate in the photo #5.

Since entering these scholastic tournaments in last October for the first time, he's won 27 matches and lost 4 in six tournaments. Two of these losses, including the heartbreaker yesterday, were from backrank checkmates while he was in decisive lead. His greatest weakness is his strong love for action, and so he tends to rush rush rush. It's hard to teach a 7 year old 2nd grader how to take his time and think more maturely. Right now, with the chess illiterate Dad and no private chess instruction, he's just relying on his natural instinct to pile up a pretty decent tournament records. My boys are learning how to play from the Chessmaster software currently.