All the Right Moves

Because of the generosity of the Montgomery Foundation and an anonymous donor, we can now supply chess sets and instructional materials for up to 25 Montgomery County school clubs.

Below is a photo of a supply box and its contents.

Each box contains chess game supplies...

• Plastic box and lid
• Chess board mats and bagged sets of white and black game pieces (10 sets) (green bags not shown)
  
• Demonstration chess wall board
• Demonstration chess pieces (next photo)

The board shows the positions after 12 moves
of the famous "Opera Game" between Paul Morphy
and two aristocrats, played in Paris in 1858.

... as well as instructional materials:

• Dynamic Chess Lessons (teacher's manual)
• Teaching Life Skills Through Chess: A Guide for Educators and Counselors (by Fernando Moreno)
• "All the Right Moves" Guide to Start a Chess Club notebook (by Fernando Moreno; not shown)
  
• Welcome to the Game of Chess (2)
  
• Welcome to Chess Ideas (2)
  
• Welcome to Checkmate (2)
  
• Chess Poems (for younger students)
• a donation of 3 books to your school library: one of each of the "Welcome" chess manuals
  

These instructional materials come highly recommended by "All the RIght Moves" own Fernando Moreno -- he's used them with great success at Broad Acres Elementary School.    They're written in clear, simple terms that will help anyone of any experience level -- in chess or in the classroom -- be a success in leading a chess club class.

If you're interested in leading a chess club at your child's school, please contact either Thomas Nephew (301-562-9393, thomasn528@prodigy.net) or Fernando Moreno  (240-988-3211, morenofe@aol.com). 

We'll be very happy to check out a supply box like the one above to you for as long as you're active with your school's chess club.  (In the event that you can't continue as a chess club sponsor, coach, or parent, we ask only that you return it to us at the end of the school year or pass it along to another parent and notify us.)

We look forward to hearing from you!