Room Creativity

(1) How do you plan to address the room creativity expectation?  

I will have a number of different self-made chess display boards all over the classroom that I can easily manipulate to provide a challenge or a puzzle to the students. This will demonstrate a creative approach to teaching the students, seeing as they can have physical interaction with the board's themselves. 

(2) What activity ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?

My answer 1 is to play against higher skilled opponents to learn from their experience. I might have students play against the computer on a higher difficulty making them experience what my answer actually entails. 
For my second answer( Study the games played by chess Grandmasters) I'm still not too sure about how to actually do it inside the classroom. However, I will probably just show a famous game move-by-move on the board and stop at certain points to get predictions from different groups as to how "Kasparov" will move next, therefore having the students actively participating. 

Answer 2

EQ: What is the best way to win a game of chess?

Answer 2: One of the best ways you can improve your game in chess, and therefore lead to more wins, is to study the popular games of Grandmasters. 

Evidence: There are a large amount of games that can help a player with their skill. I will list 3 historic games that every player should know about:

- Deep Blue(Computer) vs Kasparov(Best player) 

- Bobby Fischer vs Boris Spassky (Cold War confrontation)

- Karpov vs Kasparov (2 Chess Icons) 

Source

- "Why they Play?" An article published by TIME magazine describing the fascinating reasons why grandmasters do what they do and their motivation behind it. 

- My Service learning gave me a lot of examples of games that I should study in order to improve.

- Chess.com provides most historic games ever played that can be easily accessed in order to study. 

The Product

As of this month, the product of my senior project would have to be my evident improvement of my skill in the game of chess. In other words, because of my work this year, I am a better player today than I was in September. I believe this is the case because playing so many games during the year, both in independent component(playing against people on chess.com for 30+ hours) and service learning(participating in Cal Poly chess club), has lead to a noticeable increase in overall wins comparing to previous years. 

My evidence for this can clearly be seen in my independent component blog because it shows the improvement i have made from the beginning of the year to now. 
http://diegocproject.blogspot.com/2012/02/independent-component-1.html