<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26134645</id><updated>2011-12-23T12:00:43.050-05:00</updated><category term='Chess Training'/><title type='text'>Best Chess Training</title><subtitle type='html'>Welcome! This site is where I provide chess teachers, coaches and parents with chess training, information and tips. It is also a site where chess teachers, coaches and parents can productively discuss or ask questions about chess! Your comments are welcome and appreciated! Enjoy! -- WIN WITH GRACE, LOSE WITH DIGNITY! TM -- 2006 Susan Polgar © --</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26134645/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Blogger</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJqbL68yOVg/TvSzjTapuFI/AAAAAAAB8s4/nMjwhtkPLBs/s220/SP%2BProfile.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26134645.post-114593475938485003</id><published>2006-04-24T23:08:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-14T19:14:47.050-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chess Training'/><title type='text'>During the Chess Coach Certification Class</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/1024/Brownsville%20Training%202.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/400/Brownsville%20Training%202.0.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;More than 60 teachers and coaches signed up for this SPF Chess Coach Certification Course. Each participant received a Susan Polgar Chess Kit which includes: a chess set, chess board, demo board, animated DVD, coaching course curriculum, digital chess clock, other gifts, chess bracelets, chess post cards, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to the official course certificate, each teacher also receives official credits! We are working hard to put chess as part of the curriculum in every school in Brownsville. We are also working to do the same for the entire state of Texas. I would like to thank Dr. Cantu, Dr. Z and Mr. Hammons for their full support for this wonderful project!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26134645-114593475938485003?l=bestchesstraining.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/feeds/114593475938485003/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=26134645&amp;postID=114593475938485003' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26134645/posts/default/114593475938485003'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26134645/posts/default/114593475938485003'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/2006/04/during-chess-coach-certification-class.html' title='During the Chess Coach Certification Class'/><author><name>Blogger</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJqbL68yOVg/TvSzjTapuFI/AAAAAAAB8s4/nMjwhtkPLBs/s220/SP%2BProfile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26134645.post-114593452084217276</id><published>2006-04-24T23:07:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-24T23:15:16.446-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Chess Coach Certification Class in Brownsville</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/1024/Brownsville%20Training.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/400/Brownsville%20Training.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The class was held at Hudson Elementary School in Brownsville, Texas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Products - Option - Price&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chess Set&lt;br /&gt;►Special Polgar Plastic Set (Choice of 3 Colors) $10.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Heavy Weight Plastic Set (Type I) $19.95&lt;br /&gt;* Special Heavy Weight Plastic Set (II) $27.95&lt;br /&gt;* Heavy Weight Wood Set $39.95&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chess Board&lt;br /&gt;►Special Polgar Chess Vinyl Board $9.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Special High Quality Wood Board $59.95&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chess Clock&lt;br /&gt;►Special Susan Polgar Digital Clock $44.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Excalibur Digital Clock $49.95&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chess Bag&lt;br /&gt;►Polgar Chess Carrying Bag (Choice of Colors) $5.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Score Pad&lt;br /&gt;►Polgar Chess Scholastic Notation Pad $3.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Training Book&lt;br /&gt;►World Champion’s Guide to Chess $17.95&lt;br /&gt;►Chess Tactics for Champions $17.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Breaking Through $30.00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chess DVD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Winning Chess the Easy Way with Susan Polgar (Volume 1-6) $27.95 each&lt;br /&gt;* Learning Chess the Easy Way Animated DVD $27.95&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Upgrade Option (If you want to upgrade or add any other item (*), we will gladly deduct 20% off from the price of that upgrade item)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Price for the Recommended Scholastic Chess Kit if purchased separately&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;$111.65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Special Package Price:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;$87.95&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strong&gt;(Price cannot be combined with any other discount)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;That’s over 21% SAVINGS!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please send order or inquiries to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:PolgarChessClub@aol.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"&gt;PolgarChessClub@aol.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/26134645-114506531932145511?l=bestchesstraining.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/feeds/114506531932145511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=26134645&amp;postID=114506531932145511' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26134645/posts/default/114506531932145511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26134645/posts/default/114506531932145511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bestchesstraining.blogspot.com/2006/04/recommended-scholastic-chess-kit.html' title='Recommended Scholastic Chess Kit'/><author><name>Blogger</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qJqbL68yOVg/TvSzjTapuFI/AAAAAAAB8s4/nMjwhtkPLBs/s220/SP%2BProfile.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26134645.post-114506477518861439</id><published>2006-04-14T21:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-04-14T21:35:46.493-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Chess Coach Training Course</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/1024/Susan%20Special%204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1741/1141/400/Susan%20Special%204.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;From:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Merrill Hammons, Advanced Academics, Brownsville ISD&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Oscar Cantu Sr., Project Coordinator&lt;br /&gt;Coach Fred V. Buitron, BISD Chess Coach Representative&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Re: Chess Training / Attendance Survey&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There will be a Chess Coaches Certification Course for all Chess team coaches on Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23, from 8:00am to 4:00pm, at the Central Middle School Training Center / Cafeteria, Brownsville, Texas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This course will personally be conducted by GM Susan Polgar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The course will focus on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* How to introduce chess to the beginner players, especially children&lt;br /&gt;* The order and method to introduce each chess piece to make it easier to understand&lt;br /&gt;* How to simplify checkmating and winning techniques&lt;br /&gt;* How to introduce simple but important chess tactical motifs&lt;br /&gt;* How to motivate the children to play chess, especially girls&lt;br /&gt;* How chess can help children in school and in life&lt;br /&gt;* How teachers can incorporate chess into other classes&lt;br /&gt;* The importance of being a good sport in chess&lt;br /&gt;* The importance of clock and time-management in chess&lt;br /&gt;* Exclusive pattern recognition in chess and beyond&lt;br /&gt;* Much more…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, each coach / participant will receive an official Susan Polgar Foundation Chess Teaching Kit which includes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* An official TRAINING CERTIFICATE by Women's World Champion Susan Polgar (FIDE Senior Trainer) / SPF&lt;br /&gt;* Tournament regulation size Chess Set and Chess Board&lt;br /&gt;* A Digital Chess Clock&lt;br /&gt;* A Chess Carrying Bag&lt;br /&gt;* A Large Demo Board&lt;br /&gt;* Training materials needed to get started&lt;br /&gt;* (Approximately $125-$150 total value)&lt;br /&gt;* Exclusive access to additional training online as well as being able to ask questions via e-mail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* COACHES – ANY PARENT ASSISTANT OR PERSON CAN JOIN US FOR THE TRAINING AT A SPECIAL LOW COST OF $299 PER PERSON.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * We would like to extend an invitation to all interested School Districts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * who would like to join us and attend this once in a lifetime chess training seminar!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SPACE IS VERY LIMITED, MORE THAN 60 COACHES HAVE SIGNED UP ALREADY.PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For questions, please contact GM Susan Polgar (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:SusanPolgar@aol.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;SusanPolgar@aol.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please make checks payable to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Susan Polgar Foundation 103-10 Queens Blvd (1C) Forest Hills, NY 11375&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coach Name________________________Contact Phone #_____-_____-_________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;School _______________________________________________________________&lt;/span&gt; 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