Openings

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Three Great Chess Openings for Beginners

Three Great Chess Openings for Beginners

We believe that kids can learn something from studying any opening – even the “bad” ones. Once kids have mastered the basics of chess, we encourage them to explore many...
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Billy's Mighty Moscow

Billy's Mighty Moscow

This week’s article will feature two games from the weekly Wednesday MCA Arena, which were played by Billy. Billy joined the academy as an already high rated player and is...
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IM Sandeep Annotates - #8 - Grace Goes Modern

IM Sandeep Annotates - #8 - Grace Goes Modern

This week’s article will feature a game from the weekly Wednesday MCA Arena, which was played by Grace, along with a couple of grandmaster games. Grace played the Modern Defense...
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Great Gambits and Surprising Sidelines

Great Gambits and Surprising Sidelines

This week’s article will feature a game from the 2023 K-5 Rockefeller Invitational, which was played by Sachit. In this game, Sachit purposely employed a risky response to the Fried...
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Students Play the Alapin Sicilian

Students Play the Alapin Sicilian

This week’s article will feature two games from the MCA weekly Wednesday Arena tournament, which began with a popular opening, the Alapin Sicilian. In the world of chess, the Alapin...
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IM Sandeep Annotates - #1 - Sunkrith

IM Sandeep Annotates - #1 - Sunkrith

Welcome to MCA’s new weekly blog series featuring the games of our students, annotated by IM Sandeep Sethuraman! In this article we will be featuring Sunkrith, who had his best...
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Weekly Thematic Tournament

Weekly Thematic Tournament

For the last year, we've been doing weekly thematic tournaments right after our Wednesday broadcast lesson for members of our online chess club
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