Chess Learning Program Syllabus
Basic Opening Principles and implementation
- Introduction to Chess and Goal of the game
Chess Notation - How pieces move
- How to capture opponent’s pieces
- Protecting your own pieces
- Responding to opponent’s move
- What is Check and Checkmate
- What is Stalemate
- Check in One, Mate in One
- Forcing checkmate with a Queen and Rook
- Forcing checkmate with two rooks
- Castling
- Different ways to win and draw the game
- Basic Opening Principles and implementation
- PLaying Sessions
Intermediate Program
- Learn how to double attack
- Defending against mate
- Capturing defender
- Basic Opening Principles
- Simplification concept
- Queen check mate
- Principles of counterattack
- Pawn Breakthrough
- Overloaded pieces
- Demolition of the pawn structure
- Concept of clearance
- Under promotion and indirect defense
- Pin
- Skewer
- Fork
- Discovered Attack
Double Check - Promotion
- Under promotion and indirect defense
- Fools Mate and Scholars Mate
- Fair and Unfair exchanges
- Back Rank Mate
- Three Phases of the game
- Ideas of the Middle game
- One Rook Checkmate
Smothered Mate, Arabian Mate - Anastasia’s Mate, Boden’s Mate, Hook Mate
- Mate in 2
Intermediate Program 2
- What can or cannot checkmate vs Lone King
- Queen vs Bishop
- Queen vs Knight
- Opposition and Distant Opposition
- King and Two Pawns vs King
- King and Pawn vs King (Win and Draw)(Using Opposition)
- Mate in 3 (25 puzzles)
- Zugzwang (25 puzzles)
- Capturing the Defender (25 puzzles)
- Remote Passer Pawns (Fox in a chicken soup)
- Imagination of Chess board
- Clearance (25 puzzles)
- Obstruction/Interference (25 puzzles)
- Comparing Knight and Bishop (Open vs Closed Position)
- Two Bishop Mate
- Adopting a fixed Opening
- Queen vs Pawn on 7th Rank (Win and Draw)
- Playing Sessions with Deep Analysis