For two weeks in March, the entire Lawrence Academy community shifts its attention from the regular academic routine to intensive courses of study that are dedicated to experiential learning. In small groups of eight to sixteen, students and teachers plunge together into the world outside the classroom (LA-Website).
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Strategy Stress
A Grandmaster Chess Champion, has been sharing techniques and his own "secret" moves to win the game of chess. Just spending a few minutes in the room, is mind boggling! As he takes the group through a possible game scenario, he rattles off the "obvious" moves one would make to get them to the point where he makes the game-changing moves.
On Wednesday he challenged each student to a game of chess. All the students lost, however Matt Rose did last the longest in his game - about 40 moves. As professional chess player, the longest game in his career was 9 hours, where he eventually lost the game after about 114 moves. His shortest game was about 10 minutes and he won the game in 6 moves. (Watch video of him explaining that particular game.)
During break times, one might find various structures of chess art on the boards.
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