Elizabeth Spiegel's blog

       Baby's got some crazy big eyes, right? I definitely never thought I would be a stay-at-home mother.       ...

      So I'm on maternity leave, which is very relaxing. I'm due Oct 27, so mostly I'm just waiting, waddling around, and paying...

I thought I would share with you some of the more unexpected things I have learned so far about pregnancy: 1. Most people seem extremely i...

        I've been working on laying out sequentially what I do in the first year of a beginner "shop class." It's on googl...

    I start by explaining there are really two ways to win a game of chess: you can 1) attack your opponent's king and checkmate him, o...

Kids love knights. I find myself reminding students 10,000 times a year that bishops are usually better than knights, and they need to have ...

This position is stolen from Coakley's green book, the chapter "Castles Made of Sand." I use it to talk about how to attack...

        I stole this from an endgame book, I'm sorry I don't remember which one. The idea is to give students a roadmap for how to w...

       The idea and first position for this lesson is taken directly from Jeff Coakley's excellent book "Winning Chess Strategy for...

Choosing the Best Capture   level: absolute beginner format: large group lesson time: 15 minutes      I do this lesson as part of teac...