ACC’s Club Manager, George Supol, was recently interviewed by CTV regarding his thoughts about the Club and Joey Votto, an ACC Club member who’s also an MLB superstar.
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ACC’s Club Manager, George Supol, was recently interviewed by CTV regarding his thoughts about the Club and Joey Votto, an ACC Club member who’s also an MLB superstar.
Click on the CTV logo below to read this latest article.
“If you don’t understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won’t help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow, you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you.”
Shunryu Suzuki (Zen Monk 1904 – 1971)
GM Alex Colovic says … (in his Chessable blog)
A very accurate thought expressed by a Zen monk. It perfectly describes the stereotypical chess player who “can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow […] cannot do anything.”
We have now setup a temporary Guestlist registration site for ACC Chess Courses/Classes here. We’ll use this while we are building our new permanent membership/registration site.
You can now purchase individual in-person classes on an a-la-carte basis. We have separate Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced in-person courses for kids and adults that define their individually scheduled classes.
We also have an Advanced online course for both kids and adults together. All registered students are pre-screened for suitability.
Discount codes are available to ACC members for both in-person classes and online courses.
We think that the new registration site will help us reduce the lineups at the Front Desk on Monday evenings, and therefore reduce frustration for some students having to stand in line. Our administration will also be easier.
NOTE: In buying classes a-la-carte, say you jump in at week 4 of an 8-week Intermediate course. You could register now for weeks 4-8 (buy 5 classes) then register later for weeks 1-3 (buy 3 more classes) for the next iteration of the course (we run them continuously throughout the year). That’s because, generally the topics within a course are additive and not necessarily sequential. This allows for maximum flexibility, especially if you have a commitment one week and can’t make a class. You don’t use up one of your classes if you don’t show.
Below is a list of our latest selected RSS Chess News Feeds we pull in daily from internet chess news servers from around the world. You can click on any link to read the news feed or listen to the podcast. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way for you to keep up with news and information that’s important to you, and helps you avoid the conventional methods of browsing or searching for information on websites.
The Chess News Feeds are updated on a daily basis. The selected blogs and podcasts do not necessarily publish every day, and some (e.g. ChessBase) are more prolific than others. Each day the list is auto-refreshed with new content. A copy of this ACC news post may also be found under our main NEWS menu as a permanent webpage.
Here is the list of the 10 blogs and podcasts that we presently follow:
Coming to ACC for RSS Chess News Feeds to review means you don’t have to worry about managing those feeds in your email account, which can clutter things up.
Note: RSS Chess News Feeds is a feature we are adding to our new website/registration system presently under construction. Since we’ve already got it working, we decided to also start using it on our current website.
Here are the proposed elements for our first ONLINE ADVANCED COURSE:
Lesson 1: Punishing Opening Mistakes
Lesson 2: The Battle of the Tempo
Lesson 3: Principles of Hypermodern Chess
Lesson 4: Recurring Themes in the Opening
Lesson 5: Modern Opening Strategy
Lesson 6: Methodology in the Opening
Lesson 7: From the Opening to the Endgame
Lesson 8: Psychology and Risk Management in the Opening
This is a great set of topics and we think the course will help players move their games to a higher level. We are very excited about this new development!
SPECIAL NOTE: As an experiment, a special 100% discount of the course fees will be provided to the first 3 ACC members who commit to helping the Club (as approved volunteers) setup and tear-down on Monday evenings. These members will be required to sign a form that outlines their commitment to help on 4 Monday evenings, both setup and tear-down, or some other combination of 8 individual setups/tear-downs. Approved ACC member-volunteers can start taking the course next week for free and satisfy their volunteer commitments over the next 6 months. (NOTE: THIS OFFER TO ACC MEMBER/VOLUNTEERS HAS NOW BEEN FILLED. THANKS TO THE PARTICIPANTS!)