Hi friends,

It's Raphael with a few updates from Chess House!

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Check out the Back to School Sale here for Family and Parents or Teachers and School Admins.  (If neither of these are you, then we have a coupon below as well.)

These kids are playing a Bishop and Pawn chess Activity from the Chess4Life curriculum!

To serve local schools and families, Chess House started a Chess Club at the Lynden Library. The first meet welcomed 33 kids to learn and play! Week three continues next Tuesday!

Over the years we've learned many things about running chess clubs, but doing it ourselves is the best way for us at Chess House to have first-hand experience, put products to the test, and answer questions.

In fact, we are available to answer your questions right here whether you're a Parent preparing your child or Teacher equipping a chess class.

Here, Elliott Neff of Chess4Life is bringing a fun and engaging experience to the kickoff night!

A way to improve your chess through this online playing website.

While chatting with customer Charles this week, I learned about a unique feature on Chess24 that I thought was quite amazing.  You can play chess with advanced players and they type up their commentary on the game while you play! When the game is complete, you can review what they said and thereby improve your game!

Charles says, "One of the features I like most about chess24 premium membership is Banter Blitz which enables premium members to challenge titled players, such as GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Peter Svidler, and GM Jan Gustafsson, to blitz games which are broadcast with live analysis and commentary."

Personally, I play on chess.com most, but lichess.com and chess24 are two more top online chess play servers. I'm sharing this tip because I think it could be helpful to many of you who play online. (The link above does not benefit Chess House, but will give credit to Charles.)

- Raphael

Update on the Centaur chess computer!

We've made three deliveries and the fourth is happening early next week. DGT is still working to overcome the demand and provide enough Centaurs to move beyond filling Pre-orders.

We still have some pending orders after next Monday's shipment is mailed to customers.

Two most recent reviews

Enjoyable chess partner
Have played several games on both challenge and expert mode. Won my first game on both modes but have not beat it since. Centaur seems to play in adaptive mode even on expert level. I retired tournament play many years ago with USCF rating of 1979 but had gone over 2000 at one point. Since then I have been studying and playing Komodo at highest level so I suspect I am somewhere in the 2000 rating level. Was surprised I was able to beat centaur in both challenge and expert mode in first game in each category. After that it seemed to adapt to my level of play and have not had a win in those levels since although I can give it a really good game in either mode. I really enjoy playing on this chess computer as it does seem like a more human experience since it adapts to more or less your level but just a little bit better. One complaint I have is that I also get that strange blinking on squares in the middle of game and I have to start over again. Seems like some sort of bug in the system. Has happened in 3 out of about 20 games. But overall an enjoyable and fun chess computer. Worth the price.

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The Timeless pieces are perfect with the innovative, smooth and thin flex pad chess board. Polished, detailed, and weighted, it's an eye-pleasing chess set you can take with you. Complete with storage bags. Many color options. Fast, Safe, Worldwide Shipping.

August 6, 2019, Michele says

I am delighted with the service. My first order of chess men was missing one piece, and within just a couple of days (and without cost) the missing piece arrived. The service representative was charming on the phone and I'm delighted with both the service and my chess set.

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