The School of
Sciences, UCLan Cyprus cordially invites you to a seminar titled:
"Basic Checkmate Techniques"
featuring a talk from a
distinguished guest, Cyprus Chess Champion Vassilis Aristotelous.
"Basic Checkmate
Techniques". Checkmate with two Rooks, checkmate with one Rook, checkmate
with the Queen. Useful waiting moves. Avoid the stalemate.
"Sacrificial
Play". Presentation of a Tal's game. Mikhail Tal, the greatest sacrificial
chess player of all time gave us a lot of beautiful games to remember.
A simultaneous exhibition
will follow where Cyprus Chess Champion Vassilis Aristotelous will play with up to
ten opponents at the same time. Please bring your chessboard!
Vassilis Aristotelous
Chess Trainer, Author,
Columnist. Member of the Cyprus Chess National team (2014), six-time member of
the Cyprus Chess Olympiad team, former Cyprus Chess Champion (2008), FIDE
(World Chess Federation) Instructor, FIDE Arbiter.
Vassilis Aristotelous was
born in 1956, in Nicosia. He studied Law and Economics at the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki and later got a Master's degree in Information Systems Management at the University of Liverpool.
Vassilis has
been into chess all his life. He learnt chess from a very young age and was immediately
enchanted by the royal game. He represented Cyprus successfully in many
international competitions like World Chess Olympiads, and Paneuropean
championships.
He lives and works in
Limassol. He is married with six children. The last few years he has taught chess
to children and adults in different academies around Limassol. He is the author
of two books on chess, "Chess One - A Complete Introduction to the Royal
Game" and "Chess Two - Beyond the Basics of the Royal Game". He
is writing the weekly page "Chess News" of "Politis"
newspaper.
When: Thursday, November 13th 20th, 2014 at 17:00-18:00
Where: Room CY006 (Ground floor), UCLan Cyprus, Pyla CY-7080
