She Plays to Win – Training

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12/02/2024 19:00 - 21:00
https://edinburghchessclub.wildapricot.org/event-5601024
Alva Street
Address: EH2 4PH

IM Lorin D’Costa from She Plays To Win (SPTW), with support from Edinburgh Chess Club, is running an open training session for girls and women.

Lorin is a professional chess coach helping children of all chess strengths to enjoy and play the game of chess. He also runs She Plays to Win (SPTW) a UK girls’ chess project to try and encourage more girls to learn, play and benefit from chess (further details of SPTW can be found at https://www.sheplaystowin.co.uk/).

The event is open to girls and women for free however please register so that we can judge numbers attending.

(Note that the club is hosting a five round SPTW International Invitational event from Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th February where a dozen international juniors are paticipating.  There are still some free spaces available so any girls or women with a FIDE rating are welcome to contact Lorin asap @ sheplaystowinuk@gmail.com if they are interested in playing.)

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