Final Reflection

Semaite Abiy

 Increased their awareness of their own strengths and areas for growth

In all of the Activities that I have performed for CAS I have found myself growing and strengthening in areas of charisma, understating, and patience as I had multiple opportunist s to work with kids and people lest fortunate than I

 Undertaken new challenges

For the Duration of my time working with children and in the programs for CAS I have been able to deal with new situations daily such as adapting to new cultures and people.

 Planned and initiated activities

When I was first put into chess club leadership position, I took it very seriously  and organized all the times for which people should play, and as well as teaching the younger novices in chess clubs the different roles and movements of the piece

Worked collaboratively with others

Chess has helped me collaborative with others taught me how to be respectful towards my opponents and respectful when I lost  is a very interesting game and I always love to play it, so  when the opportunity came for me to play it even more and improve my, skills. I sure took it, to become better, and when i found out that it also counted as creativity, I was even more pleased, and sure would like to do chess again next year to get better and have

for my first match against Mathew  it was a very interesting game with many intriguing turns with many controversial moves i would have been rather foolish not to accept, given the position/material + of a Pawn, albeit isolated, doubled. And, your 2 B's vs my 2 Kn's. However, I am not sure that the Bishop pair is any advantage in this Pawn structure. Have never played 2 B's vs 2 Kn's in an endgame that I can recall. Nonetheless, Black has no opportunities to better himself, given the lack of a complete blunder on White's part, and I do not believe that will occur. So, I accept your gracious offer, given that I am unproven here, Black, and lower rated.

Mathew, thank you for being a good and conversational opponent. I wish you well in the other games here and will be rutting for you.

Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities

Again through out my years of service for CAS I have shown commitment to  all my activates, Chess, Tennis Track and the orphanage that I visit monthly for the past 2 to 3 years.  

Engaged with issues of global importance

For the years I was committed to MUN A Model United Nations (MUN) conference is an authentic simulation of the United Nations itself. You take on the role as a delegate or an ambassador to the United Nations and debate current world problems and global issues. Adults haven’t yet found the way to solve many of the world’s problems, so now it’s your turn to learn to cooperate with others to find solutions to problems such as hunger, war, environmental damage, displaced peoples (refugees), disease and the lack of respect for basic human rights. MUN requires a great deal of commitment and self-motivation. It also requires a passionate belief in the power of debate to make the world a better place.

MUN enables you to develop diplomatic skills, learn patience and tolerance, listen to others,

Develop positive debating tactics that lead to conflict resolution.  This also enables us to be prepared to deal with issues of global importance, such as the topics we debated in Barcelona such as the annexation of Crimea

Considered the ethical implications of their actions

When I when to the Kittingela Orphanage/School I learn that my actions have far reaching effects. For In the spam of a week my ideas of Kenya and people changed very quickly. It began, when I was assigned to the Kittingela Orphanage/School. I was told by my teachers to teach, English, Mathematics, and Science to children between the ages of 6-12, and as you could tell I was not overlay enthusiastic on going. With indifference in each step as I made it to the school's gate, I walked in and was surprised to be greeted by the enthusiastic smiles and hugs of children, with tattered clothes, broken smiles and dirty hands. In this moment I realized some people no matter in which situation that they are in would still treat others better than themselves. Now the only question I could ask my self is did I really have the world figured out.

As the week progressed when I taught and played with the children they won me over yet again with their immense intellectual curiosity asking countless questions about the world outside of there own, as well as their great ambitions to do and see things they had never done before, even more so than me, and last it was their charismatic nature to make you smile at any given unpredictable moment.

So not only had I affected them but they had also had affected me. And the Ethical impactions where that I had changed their lives forever

Developed new skills

In all of the activates and actions that I performed for CAS I learnt new skills annually such as adapting to cultures, improving my communication skills and most of all my patience as I have timelessly dedicated my time to children less fortunate than I  

Track And Feild

Today i will be writing on my experiences about the track team  and explain how it has helped me grow as a runner and how it has changed my overall health both physical and mental.

When i first joined the track team i was not fully aware of my overall ability and it cost me i was out of breath by the first lap as i had tried to impress my coach by coming in first but after that it went downhill; as it became a game of keep up instead of one in wich i would be the winner. this experience shed some light on my naivety on what i thought about my overall health and strength. but just in a few short week through my tireless dedication i found my endurance becoming stronger and my running technique also improving. what this meant was that track dose not teach you to always come in first but in nails down the point of having consistency instead of having leaps of energy.
 From me being on the track team it has made the difference in my life by strengthening my overall physical and mental health. and my training on the track team has also run off into my academic life as it has also taught me to as pace my self with all work.
And now things are different because of my dedication to track and the understanding of its benefits to both physical and mental

And  I continue to compete at an athletic level for track 

Chess

Chess, chess is a very interesting game and i always love to play it, so  when the opportunity came for me to play it even more and improve my, skills. i sure took it, to become better, and when i found out that it also counted as creativity, i was even more pleased, and sure would like to do chess again next year to get better and have A LOT MORE FUN!! And this is a picture from when we won the tournament
for my first match against Mathew  it was a very interesting game with many intriguing turns with many controversial moves i would have been rather foolish not to accept, given the position/material + of a Pawn, albeit isolated, doubled. And, your 2 B's vs my 2 Kn's. However, I am not sure that the Bishop pair is any advantage in this Pawn structure. Have never played 2 B's vs 2 Kn's in an endgame that I can recall. Nonetheless, Black has no opportunities to better himself, given the lack of a complete blunder on White's part, and I do not believe that will occur. So, I accept your gracious offer, given that I am unproven here, Black, and lower rated.

Mathew, thank you for being a good and conversational opponent. I wish you well in the other games here and will be pulling for you.


For the next games i decided to take my skill online and i played against an anonymous player c However, one-sided games can contain some instructive value, as the viewer gets to see one side’s strategy play out perfectly. The present game also gave me a chance to test Avrukh's Slave Repertoire. Even though my opponent deviated from theory quite early, I was able to apply a few of the ideas that were recommended by Avrukh in other variations.

The concept of “learning ideas instead of memorizing moves” has become rather a hackneyed phrase, usually associated with products such as chess DVDs, and books that place less emphasis on detailed analysis than the GM Repertoire series. However, I have often found my general understanding has been elevated by studying high-level opening books. (Not just from Quality Chess; the “Opening According to Kramnik/Anand” books from Chess Stars also spring to mind.)

Alan Jelfs (1922) – Andrew Greet (2485) D15
Glasgow, 04.03.2014

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 a6 6.b3
My opponent was obviously not familiar with this particular set-up with the pawn on a6 and bishop on f5, and he chooses an innocuous reply.

6…e6 7.Bd3 Bd6!?
I decided to leave the bishop to be taken, as the change in the pawn structure would make the game more interesting.

A decent alternative is: 7…Bb4 8.Qc2 (8.Bb2 Qa5) 8…Bxd3 9.Qxd3 Black has won a tempo and is doing fine.

8.Bxf5
Interestingly, about a month later I reached the same position against the same opponent. On that occasion he avoided exchanging on f5 but made the strategic error of blocking the centre with c4-c5. It was a strange attempt to improve, and I won quickly.

8…exf5
During the game, I remembered that one of Avrukh’s lines featured a similar position, but with the white knight still on g1, which gave him the option of putting the queen on f3 and knight on e2 to challenge Black’s central pawns. (I have since checked and found the line on page 57 of GM 17.) Here there is no such plan, and I already assessed my position as slightly preferable.

and for one of my last games i played a game that was up and down. I was better, but overplayed my position and at the end I was even a bit worse. But with neither player having more than a minute, a draw was agreed. e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.0-0 Nf6 8.Be3 Bb4 9.Na4 0-0 10.c4 Bd6 11.g3 Nxe4 12.Rc1 Be5 13.Nf3 d6 14.Nxe5 Nxe5 15.Qd4 Nf6

The most important thing i have learnt from playing all these different games is one of the most well-known principle when you are way ahead in a game is to trade pieces, but I have found it's more accurately stated: 

Make fair trades of pieces but not necessarily pawns.

However, trading pieces, IMHO, is not the single most important principle to follow when you're winning easily; it's not even the second most important. In my mind, here are the big six:

1. Think Defense First - I often get misquoted that this means "Play defensively" but that's quite different. I discuss the difference in the column 
2. KISS - Keep it Simple. Complications always favor the player who is losing, unless the one ahead is a top computer.
3. Make fair trades of pieces, not necessarily pawns
4. Make sure you are using all your pieces all the time - it's like you are on a hockey power play
5. Don't worry about the little things, e.g., if you are ahead a knight and can force the trade of queens but it will double your pawns, double away.
6. [Bonus] Avoid unnecessary time trouble. For example, if you win a knight with 40 minutes left on your clock in a sudden death time control, aim to have about 5 minutes left at the end of the game, not the normal "almost zero".

I hope to continue these games

Tennis

Since the very first time I picked up a running, when I was about 10 years old, I have known that tennis was the sport for me. I haven’t been the best in the game and probably never will be but it is something that I enjoy playing and always will. For the first semester i started playing with the team and on the  in tennis i was introduced to my new team mates we where shown our limitations and skills, he also told us of our first game against Roslyn he told us he did not expect us because we did not have enough in game experience but after that he was showing us the basics of in game etiquette. So i latere continued it by myself with Coach George But after  after 15 years of playing so far, I enjoy competitive tennis much more than recreational tennis. True to my competitive TYPE 3 nature, I like the added pressure and the opportunity to keep advancing.While I play both doubles and singles, I like the challenge of playing singles. it is a much more physical game than doubles tennis. What do you do that challenges you, true to your nature? To be honest, I can usually tell and my tennis partner and I will win. I’ve been playing tennis long enough to read the energetics of the other team and sense how things are playing out. I can sense when we’re energetically aligned for a win or whether the other team will win. I go into a game maintaining that feeling of alignment to win. When I sense that my tennis partner and I are losing momentum, I encourage us with affirmations to boost our energy and our confidence. (Our confidence one time even psyched out the other team!) and i have learnt that through  tennis this year one of them being Gratitude it is always the best response, no matter what the outcome. When I win games, I’m grateful. When I lose, I’m grateful for the experience and the learning. I’m grateful for my strong and healthy body to be able to do this, and for the people I love who support me in it.

And I keep on practicing every Sunday 

IMUN

For MUN A Model United Nations (MUN) conference is an authentic simulation of the United Nations itself. You take on the role as a delegate or an ambassador to the United Nations and debate current world problems and global issues. Adults haven’t yet found the way to solve many of the world’s problems, so now it’s your turn to learn to cooperate with others to find solutions to problems such as hunger, war, environmental damage, displaced peoples (refugees), disease and the lack of respect for basic human rights. MUN requires a great deal of commitment and self-motivation. It also requires a passionate belief in the power of debate to make the world a better place.

MUN enables you to  develop diplomatic skills, learn patience and tolerance, listen to others,
develop positive debating tactics that lead to conflict resolution.

And this is exactly the first things we where abel to tap on in the first meeting of IMUN we talked about what is to be expected of us when we go to Portugal and we also tapped on to the topic of our fund-raising for the children's orphanage/school so as you can see for our first meeting you can see that we only staring to get back into the grove of things
and for our second meeting we did a group building activity.

For this we also contribute enomrasly to an orphanage right down the road from use myself i have donated a personal bycel but still their is work that need to be done . Twenty children are still sleeping on the cement floor of a single room. The money that should be going towards the children’s health and education is instead forced to go towards the rent of the complex. The only way to solve these problems is to continue our efforts in raising funds

By the end of week we are to meet in a practice conference to determine who will go to germany i can not wait as MUN is something I've always been interested in. I did it once in eighth grade and I found it to my liking. Thus, this year I decided to do it again. MUN basically is a learning environment for students that resembles the United Nations. In MUN, we do the things done in the UN. We are all trained to write, read, debate and support resolution, solutions to worldwide problems. We are put into groups and each of us as given countries we are to become delegates of. We represent these countries at the general assembly during the MUN conferences. It's a great experience. I also want to greater develop my my debate skills by allowing myself to feel a sense of calm i have no doubt that this is going to be a good year.