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By Lee Siew Fai
You
too can Teach!
Introduction
Dear chess players, readers and surfers,
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I have an invite
I interest you to grant some time
Where we get excited over the future of chess
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I have a dream
I fantasize upon the time
Where lessons are accessible for learners of chess
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I have a motive
I move and act in time
Where motivation brings joy to lovers of chess
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I have a vision
I visualize stones in-step with time
Where these stones lead to competitive chess
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I have a challenge
I tease others to rally on precious time
Where WE too CAN Teach CHESS
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Let me first introduce myself. My name is Lee
and I played my last serious game way back in 1992 at the Asian Cities
Championship, Dubai. But after all this time, I still love chess!
In 2005, I started chess lessons for a group of
children in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. All training has been on a voluntary
basis even till today. In the process of teaching and
getting feedbacks from their learning responses, a simplified teaching method
has evolved and is being fine-tuned into a "Launch Pad Method" known as
"The Seven Keystones to Competitive Chess".
This teaching method is given the tasks to meet the
following objectives:
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It must be in a design suitable for teaching players below the age of 16
(in line with The Merdeka Day Team Championship Junior U-16 series)
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It must be able to achieve a competitive playing level and also be able
to accompany the player to their Master level and beyond!
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It must encourage the usage of ICT and yet be able to overcome the
digital divide
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It must be able to bring teaching skill to a greater reach among chess
players thereby able to introduce chess to all children regardless of
intelligence, creed, gender and race.
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It must have a character-building component.
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The whole concept is being competitive and not necessarily winning chess!
The only thing that can be sacrificed is the more detailed and finer part of
chess theories.
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It must be offered as
"free source" in non-profit teaching*
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*Where fees are deem charged directly or indirectly, 7
percent of the full or part revenue be donated to a charity of one's choice.
Monitoring of this charitable act is left to the conscience of the users and
their chess students. For acknowledgment purposes, this teaching method is
developed at Karisma Tuition Center, Seremban and shall be the Intellectual
Property of the tuition center. (I shall remain as "the volunteer!")
So much is revealed for now. I will write again very
soon with a further look at this new teaching method. So just look out for the guest column on "You too CAN Teach!".
In due time, you too will be like kids doing the skip and hop from one keystone
to another, through and forth! And be playing chess competitively!
Cheerios!
Lee and his students from Seremban.
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