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Success of scholastic chess players at the State or National level is ultimately the result of the young player having talent, a strong work ethic and solid fundamentals. So, to prepare one of my talented students for the National Online Scholastic Quick Championship, I spent some time this afternoon reviewing the fundamental checkmates with them. As luck would have it, while playing online chess this evening I had an opportunity to use two of the foundational checkmating patterns we had worked on earlier in the day. It was especially fitting to then share my own experience with our lesson materials as a follow up to our training session in order to reaffirm why we need to take the time to master the fundamentals.
