WINTER CAMP 2017

Camp with us at Forest Lodge Farm on July 11-14, 2017

Prices include:

3 nights accommodation
Healthy home-cooked meals
Private (one-on-one) coaching and group coaching sessions
Tournament games and plenty of great prizes along the way!
Non-chess team-building activities/tourist activities

Costs

Students $ 695
Accompanying adults $ 360

Payment in full required at time of registration.

Discounts

Early payment discounts

$100 discount if payment received by Sun 30 April 2017
$50 discount if payment received by Wed 31 May 2017

Multiple sibling discounts

$50 second-sibling discount
$100 third-sibling discount

Parent discounts

$100 Supervising parent discount - Up to 6 adults who hold a valid Working With Children card will receive a $100 discount if they act as "room supervisors" - a responsibility, which is pretty much limited to ensuring kids are quiet after being sent to bed and don't get lost if we're on an excursion.

Cancellation policy

Up to 31 May, 2017 - Camp fees fully refundable
Up to 30 June, 2017 - 25% refund
from 1 July, 2017 - No refunds

Students have the option to attend with parents or be supervised by our group leaders. Accompanying adults may bring very young non-participating children by arrangement. Please email tim@chesskids.com.au with your requirements!

Transport and meeting-up points
Return transport from Kids Unlimited in Mt Waverley to Forest Lodge Farm will be provided to students and adults for an additional fee. Final transport price is subject to numbers and will be a simple sharing of actual costs.

We shall meet at Kids Unlimited, 430 Huntingdale Road, Mt Waverley at 9.15am on Tues 11 July. Estimated return time at Kids Unlimited on Friday 14 July is 5.00pm. Parents may drive their kids separately if they prefer, in which case we can meet you at the Camp between 12.00 and 12.30 on the Tuesday

For more inquiries , please call Tim Broome at
0421 164677 or email us at events@chesskids.com.au

Educational Theme
Ranks, Files, Diagonals and Holes!!
(and how to use them!!)
Coaching from all our top coaches!

Everyone loves coming on our Chess Camps. Immerse yourself in chess for 4 days with other like-minded and equally talented and dedicated students and many brilliant chess coaches.

The Chess Study Theme for this Camp -Ranks, Files, Diagonals and Holes! -incorporates both Strategy and Tactics. We want to open your eyes to more of the wonderful things that happen on a chessboard. We shall send you home having improved:

your chessboard vision, instincts and pattern recognition
your ability to identify key parts of the board in your games
your imagination and ability to see potential and opportunity
your ability to get more life and activity out of more of your pieces

Beautiful new Venue in Gippsland Hills
Forest Lodge Farm, Jack River
Adjacent to Alberton State Forest, overlooking the Strzelecki Ranges

The Winter Camp this year goes to a place with that rich country feel, 2hrs 30mins away from the hustle and bustle of Melbourne City life. Forest Lodge Farm is home to a variety of very tame farm animals 2 horses, 15 sheep, 1 duck, 7 goats, 20 chickens, 10 geese, 1 pig and 1 dog and an animal nursery, where a lot of the baby animals are bottle fed . Campers with the help of the Camp staff may have the opportunity to help out with feeding and caring for the animals.

The facilities are ideal for our Camp. The accommodation is of a high quality and we will be able to configure kids of different ages, small family groups, adults etc in a way that will satisfy everyone's needs. There is a large separate recreation room for our chess-playing activities, as well as a good-sized dining room, that can easily be utilized for indoor activities.

The camp also boasts a cosy accommodation lounge with huge open fire place and state of the art, surround sound and audio/visual system and a large projector screen.

The camp does not have WIFI but has good mobile reception.

We plan to utilize some of the Camp's own exciting range of team-building camp activities in addition to our chess program. Its 40 acres of flat open land is home to a wide array of fun activities and facilities.

Giant Swing
Flying Fox
Archery
Canoes,
Raft Building
Low Ropes and Initiatives Course
Hut Building
Bush Cooking
Frisbee Golf
Fishing, ponding and yabbying
Large grassy oval
Basketball and Volleyball
Undercover areas
Campfire

Daisy and Felix Milk and Shake

Camp Itinerary

Main activities

Our two main chess activities ongoing throughout the 4 days will be small group coaching sessions (streamed according to experience level and/or age), and our "team-format" Camp tournament. There will also be one-on-one coaching, detailed post-game analysis and pre-game preparation for the tournament games. Our main Camp tournament will be played at our Vic Youth time limits of 25 mins + 10 secs per move (recording moves), with the team format in a multi-age camp ensuring that everybody plays only against players of an equivalent level. We shall also have our very popular Blitz Tournament (5 minute games) in which you may will have the opportunity to play against our coaches too!! We will break up the program with an appropriate level of non-chess activities, including a selection of the great team-building exercises offered at Forest Lodge, and will also run a variety of fun and educational evening activities

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