CURRICULUM
Beginner
- Chess Board, Pieces and Notation
- Opening principles
- Principle of developments
- Forks, Pins, Double Check, Skewer etc.
- Checks and threats
- King safety
- Strategy (basics)
- Stalemate
- Fools Mate and Scholars Mate
- En-Passant
- Queen Checkmate
- Two Rook Checkmate
- Queen Checkmate ideas
- Different ways to win and draw the game
- Basic Opening Principles and implementation
- Tactics Awareness
- Connected Rooks
Intermediate
- Imagination in chess
- Middlegame plans
- Zugzwang ideas!
- Opposition and Distant Opposition
- Bishop vs Knight (Open and closed positions)
- Learning from the mistake series
- Playing Sessions with Deep Analysis
- Smothered Mate, Boden’s Mate, Hook Mate, Arabian Mate, Anastasia’s Mate
- How to manage Opposite Colour Bishops
- The Lucena Position
- The Philidor Position
- Decoying, Windmill, Mate in 4
- Combinations in chess
- The Philidor Position
- Rook endgames
- Critical squares
- Sacrifice
- Learn from the World champion games series
Advanced
- Prophylaxis Thinking
- Static and dynamic advantages and how to play with or against it!
- Playing Against Different Openings
- Opening Theory and Novelties
- Endgame studies!
- All sorts of pawn structure with modern theory!
- Initiative and critical points
- Transition from middle-game to end-game
- Professional opening repertoire
- Pawn Endgames
- Positional Evaluation in complex positions
- Studies from Grandmaster Games
- Dynamic Imbalances
- Middlegame Maneuvering
- Pattern Recognition
- Chess Composition and Problem Solving
- Fortress Creation
- Tournament Preparation and Psychology