Level 1 ( Beginner)

We will learn:

1. The starting position including board set-up. The chess pieces names. Piece movement and capture:pawn (2 and 1 square moves), bishop (stuck in one colour),rook,Queen,King (not castling),Knight. Capture takes a move.

2. Board coordinates.

3. The value of the pieces.

4. Defending a piece.

5. King cannot capture a defended piece .Cannot move into check.

6. Capture exercises .

7. Chaturanga and FIDE.

8. Pawn promotion: knight, bishop, rook or queen but not pawn or king. Must promote .

9. Check and avoidance of check.

10. The end of the game:checkmate and three necessary conditions.

11. Tournament code of conduct.

12. The 6 draws :Stalemate ,insufficient material, position repetition, agreement, 50 move rule, clock.

13. Castling basics : a king move, develop rook and safety for king,King-side,Queen-side.

14. Castling rules:Blocks(pieces on the way, piece already moved, king in check, castle through check, castle into check.

15. Fianchetto.

16. The house set-up.

17. The ABCs of chess.

18. Basic checkmates.

19. Batteries.

20. Pawn en passant.

21. Staircase checkmate.

22. Mating with the Queen.

23. Mating with the Rook.

24. The pin.

25. The fork.

 

Level two (Intermediate)

We will learn:

1. Basic checkmates review.

2. Mate in one exercises.

3. Activity of pieces (Mobility) :move pawns to liberate pieces and control center squares.

4. Hanging pieces: 3 weaknesses.

5. Double attack.

6. The Knight Fork.

7. The Queen fork (Targets).

8. Capture calculation to win material: number of attackers vs defenders and order depending on piece-worth during capture.

9. Attacking a pinned piece.

10. A pinned piece can not be counted as a defender.

11. Simple checkmates:Scholar’s and Fool’s mate.

12. Discovered Attack and discovered check.

13. The Skewer.

14. Decoy and deflection.

15. The windmill.

16. Legal’s mate.

17. Mating with 2 Bishops.

18. Piece sacrifice.

19. Algebraic chess notation.

20. Mate in two.

21. Back-rank mate.

22. The Ruy-Lopez.

23. Smothered mate.

24. The bad bishop.

25. Eliminate the Defender.

 

Level three( Advanced)

We will learn:

1. Good and bad pawns:passed, isolani.

2. The Scotch game.

3. Blocked pawns.

4. Overloading (overworked piece).

5. Activating rook to open files.

6. The square rule for passed pawns.

7. Attacking the castled king.

8. The King on the sixth rank.

9. Phase of the game: Opening, Middle game, endgame.

10. The Italian game.

11. King and pawn endgames.(promotion, pin,). King and Pawn vs. King; Opposition.

12. King and Pawn vs. King; Key squares.

13. The Rook pawn Key squares.

14. A trap in the Italian game.

15. King walk (Lasker).

16. Mate in three.

17. Fried Liver Attack.

18. A square rule for separated pawns.

19. The Elephant Trap.

20. Zwischenzug.

21. The Lasker Trap.

22. Noah’s Ark Trap.

23. Philidor position (KRP vs KR).

24. Lucena’s position.(KRP vs KR).

25. Vancura position.(KRP vs KR).