Over the last year or so I have created a Chess Opening Mnemonic Major Memory System For The 1.d4 Opening Repertoire for the White chess player. My memory system covers the first few moves (up to as many as 17 in one case) of 184 opening variations in the 1.d4 [Read more…]
In this video I take you through some chess opening moves White can play when Black responds with the Marshall Defence.
The Marshall Defence occurs after 1. d4 d5 2. c4…
Black now moves his g8 Knight to f6. When that happens, what should White do?…
In this demo video I play a couple of free Hidden word games. Hidden is one of the Eager Zebra set of free online games. It’s free to play but you can also buy “T-Credits,” which you can use to purchase extra Hidden clues. It is also possible to win [Read more…]
For the last few years, every time October comes around I start playing Halloween Spot It! with some of my English students. Then, as soon as it’s All Saints Day, I put away Halloween Spot It! for another year. Those students who have been with me long enough always laugh [Read more…]
Christopher the cook killed one of the hens, and sweated over the cooking pot. The party enjoyed a meal of stewed chicken, cooked in a vegetable broth that consisted of herbs plucked by the river, some pickled veg from one of the pickle jars, and a portion of hard tack. [Read more…]
As Sir Richard and his party travel through a strange land and sit down by the river for their repast, their location is plotted on a shogi board. The landscape they have discovered is also laid out. The coloured 1×1 Lego bricks represent the people in the party. Red = [Read more…]
Now that the sweet showers of April have pierced the drought of March to the root, the west wind has given life to tender shoots, and the stripling sun has run his half course in Aries the Ram, ’tis time for knights to ride out in love of chivalry, truth [Read more…]
It’s been a while since I bought any Lego gear, but on Saturday I found a box in the Lego City series that would supply Sir Richard’s men with two shovels and Sir Richard with two bars of gold. It would also give me four more minifigs to press into [Read more…]
A gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe wounds did remaine, The cruel markes of many’a bloudy fielde; Yet armes till that time did he never wield: His angry steede did chide his foming bitt, As much disdayning to [Read more…]
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