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Advanced Card Strategy Specialists (Magic: The Gathering): (Grades 5+) This advanced card game program is for veterans of our After School programs and older kids that are interested in more complicated strategy games. A wide range of game categories are explored in a progressive curriculum with the intent of playing a complex variety of card mechanics, subject matter and strategies. Students will continue to develop their strategic thinking, planning and good sportsmanship as they play both competitive and cooperative games. Students will learn to build decks, play with pre-constructed decks, and draft decks.

Chess III: This class is tailored toward advanced chess players with established on-line and/or over-the-board United States Chess Federation or FIDE chess ratings of 1100-1600, who already understand basic tactics and strategy. More advanced tactics will be taught and examples provided, including piece sacrifices, clearance sacrifices, discovered attacks, king hunts, skewers, smothered mates, zugzwang and zwischenzug. More advanced chess strategies will be taught including strong and weak squares, use of batteries, control of open and half-open files, ranks and diagonals, and opening memorization and learning of advanced chess concepts. Students will learn middle-game strategy including how to gain space on the chess board, endgame preparation, gaining and losing tempos, transitioning from the middle-game to the endgame with positional advantages. Memorization and concept development to enhance cognitive development will be key components of this class and world chess champion games as well as top-level miniature chess games will be used as examples for study. Tournament preparation will conclude this class with use of chess clocks, notation, and an on-site Swiss-style tournament for class participants.