ÎâΰÇäAdvanced Chess II
The course will continue the main themes as Advanced Chess I. Moreover and
unique for this course, during the first half of the semester, I will cover and
explain 50 basic fascinating and beautiful checkmate patterns contained in How
to Beat Your Dad at Chess such as back rank mate, Arabian mate, smothered
mate, and Fisher Trap etc. During the second half of the semester, I will cover
and explain 50 basic famous and wonderful chess tactics contained in Chess
Tactics for Kids such as Greek sacrifice, stalemates, zwischenzug
etc. Every week's exercises are based on the lessons. This course
requires students to have basic chess knowledge such as basic chess principles,
checkmate and stalemate, pawn vs. king ending, knowing how to checkmate with a
single rook or two bishops, solve one or two move puzzles. These two
books are available at Amazon: How
to Beat Your Dad at Chess and Chess Tactics for Kids.
Intermediate
Chess
This course will continue Beginner Chess and further cover various chess
topics. The students will learn from mini chess games, basic checkmate
patterns, and chess tactics. Students will also play chess during classes and
learn to play Bughouse and Blitz. Homework will be 20 simple puzzles each week.
Beginner Chess or equivalent level is required and parents' cooperation
is required as well.
Advanced
Chess
The course will cover a variety of important chess topics including but not
limited to: chess principles, Queen's Gambit Declined and Colle
System for white openings, Sicilian Defense for black openings, endgames,
tactics (more than 1000 chess puzzles which I have compiled), annotated games form
Kasparov, Tarrasch, Capablanca
and Alekhine (every move will be explained),
checkmate patterns and analyzing student games. Chess playing will be very
limited during the classes due to the valuable lecture time. There will be a
lot of activities in the class as well as in tournaments for the students. They
will have excitements and despair, ups and downs, wins and losses. But the most
important things about chess, as my son puts it, are "beat other kids, win
trophies, make friends and have a lot of fun". With professional chess
teacher charging $30-40 an hour, you can't beat this $68 a semester chess
course. This course requires students to have basic chess knowledge such as
basic chess principles, checkmate and stalemate, pawn vs. king ending, knowing how
to checkmate with a single rook or two bishops, solve one or two move puzzles.
Beginner
Chess
The course will cover the most basic chess knowledge such as piece movement,
pawn games (including En Passant), pawn promotion, values of pieces, concepts
of checkmate and stalemate, basic chess principles, one move checkmate puzzles,
short chess games, scholar's mate, fool's mate, basic tactic terms (fork, pin,
skewer, double check, discovery attack).
Mini
Exercise -- Four pages of exercises asking whether the position is
checkmate, stalemate, or black has a legal move. (Designed for very young
children.)
Basic
Checkmates -- Remember: these checkmates are basic but not
simple. Rook Roller, Rook and King vs. King, Queen and King vs. King, Two
Bishops vs. King, Knight and Bishop vs. King
Chess in Chicago --
Comprehensive website about scholastic chess in
Teach Chess in 64
Mini Lessons -- Best interactive chess lessons for kids
Play
Yahoo Chess -- Best online chess playing website
Simple
Checkmates -- 202 checkmate puzzles. Always white to move.
First 100 puzzles are one move checkmate. Next 102 puzzles are two move
checkmate. The document is only available for students registered for chess
classes at
Chess
Puzzles -- I have compiled around 1000 chess puzzles
covering 1-4 move checkmate or tactics. The html documents are only
available for students registered for chess classes at
Chess DVD
-- The most famous Susan Polgar's Winning
Chess the
Chess
books covered in the classes: 1) Logical Chess: Move by Move
by Irving Chernev; 2) How to Beat Your Dad
at Chess by Murray Chandler; 3) Chess Tactics for Kids by
Murray Chandler;