C&O Family Chess Center
Student Page II
for Intermediate and Advanced Students
(Including Home-School Programs)

Omar Pancoast III, Director
Director@chesscenter.net
Carolyn B. Pancoast, Program Director
Programs@chesscenter.net 
    

"The will to win" means nothing
without "the will to prepare!"

When students get to levels 4 or 5 many of them get to be better than most of their friends, but find that they stop improving.  Lessons with a private coach or the Saturday Morning Chess Club can definitely help.  But many students are too busy to add time for a coach or another class.  We have an answer!  We are offering inter-active on-line instruction through the new "Chess Magnet School" (CMS).  All of our scholastic members and their family & friends who sign up for one of our class groups on the chessmagnetschool.com web site will receive a discount tuition (See the "Instruction" page for details).  Center members receive an even larger discount. 

                            Chess Magnet School Registration


The single best way to improve your playing ability (and it's free) is to "play over" your own games, identify the mistakes, and find improved moves to help you in your next game.  In order to do this you must be able to "record," or write down, the moves.  You can learn how to read and write chess notation very easily from our Journal download ("Students Page I ") or from the CMS lessons. It may seem distracting at first, but regular practice quickly makes the task easy.  Then you can even show your games to friends or take them to a coach for an instructive lesson.  Score sheets for writing are also available for download on "Students Page I."

"Girls Rule!"                                                                        St. Jane De Chantal School

How To Be A Winner!

Many people confuse "being a winner" with winning games.  They are two entirely different things!  Winning (or losing, or drawing) a game is simply a "result."  Almost everything you do in life produces a result.  Sometimes the result is what you want, sometimes it is not... but being a "winner" is never about your results!  Rather it is about what you "choose" to do with those results.  That's correct, "being a winner" is an attitude, and it's always a matter of your choice!   

Chess in the                                                                                   Fields Road E. S.  

A "Winner" chooses to accept responsibility for his (or her) actions and results!
A "Winner" chooses to direct his own progress as much as possible!
A "Winner" chooses to use his results as a means to further learning and growth!

Who says girls can't play                                                      Fields Road E.S.

A "Winner" seeks to identify mistakes and views them as lessons to be learned!

A "Winner" understands that sometimes progress is slow... but that it will come! 

A "Winner" understands that a loss is an opportunity for personal improvement!

What will you "choose" to be today?