Beginner Chess

Description

Our Beginner Chess class is for absolute beginners who have no background or experience with chess. Objectives: * Introduction to Chess: Rules, board, notation, names of the pieces and moving the bishop rook and queen * Moving the pieces: King, Pawn and Knight * Special moves, point system and Checks * Checkmate Basics: How to do a checkmate * Stalemate Basics: What is it, is it good or not do it * Practice playing and Capturing Pieces * 4 Principles and How to Start a Game * Chess Tactics: Forks, Pins and Skewer * Setting Up a Double Attack: Real Attacks * Exploiting Position, Winning Material * Playing against the Coach and Apply Course Knowledge * How to Make a Draw: Different Types of Draw * Fool’s Mate and Lighting Attack: How to do it and how to defend it * Endgame Basics: Pawn, rook, knight, bishop and queen * Play Against the Coach and Summarize Course Knowledge * Endgame Basics: Double Rook and Single Queen Mate Techniques * Battery Attack: Basics * Playing against the Coach and Apply the Course Knowledge * Defending Against Checkmate * Defending Against Double attack * First Game Analysis * Course Review with Puzzles and Playtime