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BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAMERIT BADGE SERIESCHESS“Enhancing our youths’ competitive edge through merit badges”
Requirements1. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the history ofthe game of chess. Explain why it is considered a gameof planning and strategy.2. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the following:a. The benefits of playing chess, including developingcritical thinking skills, concentration skills, anddecision-making skills, and how these skills canhelp you in other areas of your lifeb.Sportsmanship and chess etiquette3. Demonstrate to your counselor that you know each of thefollowing. Then, using Scouting’s Teaching EDGE*, teachsomeone (preferably another Scout) who does not knowhow to play chess:a.The name of each chess pieceb.How to set up a chessboardc. How each chess piece moves, including castling anden passant captures4. Do the following:a. Demonstrate scorekeeping using the algebraic systemof chess notation.b. Discuss the differences between the opening, themiddle game, and the endgame.c.Explain four opening principles.d.Explain the four rules for castling.e. On a chessboard, demonstrate a “scholar’s mate” anda “fool’s mate.”f. Demonstrate on a chessboard four ways a chess gamecan end in a draw.* You may learn about Scouting’s Teaching EDGEfrom your unit leader, another Scout, orby attending training.35973ISBN 978-0-8395-0000-1 2016 Boy Scouts of America2016 Printing
5. Do the following:a. Explain four of the following elements of chess strategy:exploiting weaknesses, force, king safety, pawn structure,space, tempo, time.b. Explain any five of these chess tactics: clearance sacrifice,decoy, discovered attack, double attack, fork, interposing,overloading, overprotecting, pin, remove the defender,skewer, zwischenzug.c. Set up a chessboard with the white king on e1, thewhite rooks on a1 and h1, and the black king on e5.With White to move first, demonstrate how to forcecheckmate on the black king.d. Set up and solve five direct-mate problems provided byyour merit badge counselor.6. Do ONE of the following:a. Play at least three games of chess with other Scoutsand/or your merit badge counselor. Replay the gamesfrom your score sheets and discuss with your counselorhow you might have played each game differently.b. Play in a scholastic (youth) chess tournament and useyour score sheets from that tournament to replay yourgames with your merit badge counselor. Discuss withyour counselor how you might have played eachgame differently.c. Organize and run a chess tournament with at leastfour players, plus you. Have each competitor play atleast two games.CHESS 3
.Chess ResourcesChess ResourcesVisit the Boy Scouts ofAmerica’s official retail website(with your parent’s permission) athttp://www.scoutstuff.org for acomplete listing of all merit badgepamphlets and other helpfulScouting materials and supplies.BooksBasman, Michael. Chess for Kids. DKChildren, 2006.Chandler, Murray. Chess Tactics for Kids.Gambit Publications, 2005.Coakley, Jeff. Winning Chess Exercises forKids. Chess ’n Math Association, 2004.———. Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids.Chess ’n Math Association, 2006.———. Winning Chess Strategy for Kids.Chess ’n Math Association, 2000.Emms, John. Concise Chess: TheCompact Guide for Beginners.Everyman Chess, 2003.Horowitz, Al. Chess for Beginners: APicture Guide. Harper Perennial, 1992.Mednis, Edmar. Practical MiddlegameTips. Everyman Chess, 1998.Nunn, John. Understanding ChessEndgames. Gambit Publications, 2009.Pandolfini, Bruce. Chess Openings: Trapsand Zaps. Fireside, 1989.———. Chess Thinking: The VisualDictionary of Chess Moves, Rules,Strategies and Concepts. Fireside, 1995.———. Pandolfini’s Ultimate Guide toChess. Fireside, 2003.Schloss, Dave. Chess 101: Everything aNew Chess Player Needs to Know!Questions Inc., 2014.Watson, John, and Graham Burgess.Chess Openings for Kids. GambitPublications, 2011.Wilson, Fred, and Bruce Alberston.202 Checkmates for Children.Cardoza, 2004.Organizations and WebsitesWhile you can type “chess” into yoursearch engine and find many good chesssites and resources, here are a few sitesyou might explore.United States Chess Federation(USCF)Telephone: 931-787-1234Website: http://www.uschess.orgCHESS 93
Chess Resources.USCF State ScholasticChess CoordinatorsWebsite: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/172/131Jerry Nash, courtesy—pages 10, 12, 13(tournament), 20, 28, 32, 36, 39, 58,65, 70, 72, 74, 76–79 (all), 83, 84 (digital clock), and 85World Chess Federation (FIDE)Website: http://www.fide.comShutterstock.com, courtesy—cover(wooden chess set, Hung ChungChih); pages 3 and 22 (chess pieces, Seregam), 4 ( korea), 6 ( AirImages), 8 ( Tinydevil), 22 (players, Air Images), 45 ( Vlad ozerov), 46( Ossile), 47 ( Blend Images), 48(clouds, BestPhotoPlus), 50 (chesspieces, cunaplus), 51 (chess board, thodonal88), 69 ( Vera Volkova),82 ( Bachkova Natalia), 84 ( AfricaStudio), 88 ( Hannah Gleghorn),92 ( Foodstocker), and 96 ( valbar)AcknowledgmentsThe Boy Scouts of America is grateful toRalph Bowman, chess enthusiast, author,and coach, for leading the effort to createthe Chess merit badge. Mr. Bowmanplayed a significant role in the development of the merit badge requirementsand pamphlet. We thank Jerry Nash,national education consultant for the U.S.Chess Federation, for his assistance, aswell. Many of Mr. Nash’s photographsappear on these pages. We appreciateJoseph Lewis Bell, Robert Boland, StanKern, Dr. Chris Kim, and Dr. JohnMcCrary for their involvement andcontributions. Thanks also to BetsyDynako for her assistance withphotography needs.Photo and Illustration CreditsFrank A. Camaratta Jr., photo used bypermission; The House of StauntonInc.; houseofstaunton.com—page 19Betsy Dynako Photographer, courtesy—pages 11, 60, and 86Federation Internationale des Echecs,courtesy—page 17 (FIDE logo)Steve Hassenplug, courtesy—page 95(chess board)NASA, courtesy—page 48 (astronaut)94 CHESSU.S. Chess Federation, courtesy—page 17 (USCF logo)Wikipedia.org—pages 15–17 (all)Wikipedia.org/Andrejj—cover (clock)Wikipedia.org/Michael L. Kaufman—page 18Wikipedia.org/The Yorck Project—page 14World Chess Hall of Fame, courtesy—page 95 (logo)All other photos and illustrations notmentioned above are the property ofor are protected by the Boy Scoutsof America.John McDearmon—cover (illustratedboard); all illustrations on pages 7,21, 23–27, 30, 31, 33–35, 38, 40–44,49–56, 59, 62–64, 67, 68, 81 (chessboard), and 89Shane Noem—page 29
How each chess piece moves, including castling and en passant captures 4. Do the following: a. Demonstrate scorekeeping using the algebraic system . Concise Chess: The Compact Guide for Beginners. Everyman Chess, 2003. Horowitz, Al. Chess for Beginners: A Picture Guide. Ha
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Comparing Solitaire Chess to Standard Chess: Solitaire Chess is a single-player logic puzzle, not a chess game. Recreational mathematicians classify it as a “chess task,” meaning that it uses the rules of chess with appropriate adaptations. With Solitaire Chess, the basic piece movements are the same as with standard chess.
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