Thursday, November 20, 2014

Basic Checkmate Techniques

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

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