The TYs had an introduction to Chess Workshop on the 3rd of December. The guy who came in was a professional chess player. He had a diagram of the chess board which he hung up at the back of the library so that they could see his demonstrations. He first introduced himself and told them what they’d be doing in the workshop.
He first placed all the pawns on the diagram and told them what they are and what they do. After he explained their purpose, he told them they’d play a mini game using the pawns. They were all sitting opposite someone who they started playing against. All the TYs had only their pawns on the board and the objective was to get one pawn on the opponent's side of the board or capture all of the opponent's pawns.
After that, he introduced the rooks. He explained the purpose of the rook and then they started a mini game. As in the last game, they either had to get a pawn to the other side or capture all of the other player's pieces. After the rook, he introduced the knight, bishop, king and queen. For every new piece, they had a mini game to understand what they did.
After they had played with every piece, he explained how a real game works and told them they could play a real game if they wanted. The TYs were really glad for the opportunity and they would definitely do it again.