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Chess for Beginners Batch XV

Learn to start playing chess like a FIDE rated player in this interactive course.

Live Course

Live Class: Friday, 29 Oct

Enrolled: 8

Duration: 24 Hours

Sessions: 8 classes per month

Offered by: infyni

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Live Course

About Course

According to psychologists, the best age to learn chess is around 6 years, when children start learning things at school. Chess enhances strategic thinking so the earlier you learn and the more you practice, the better you are able to develop thinking and tactics of chess.

This chess training will also groom kids to take part in Chess tournaments or progress to the Advanced Chess.

In this course, you will have a veteran Chess Master tutor taking you through all the basics showing you how to arrange the pieces, the movements of each piece and their special features. Meant for Beginners who have a strong desire to understand the tactics of the game, all you need is a chess set.

Sessions are paced twice a week with much interaction and exciting games.

Let's take a look at what the top benefits of learning and playing chess are :

1. Teaches Children How To Win And Lose

2. Helps Children Realize The Consequences Of Their Actions

3. Can Help Them Focus

4. Develops Creativity

5. Builds Confidence

6. Develops Problem-Solving Skills

7. Exercises The Brain

Skills You Will Gain

Sportsmanship Patience Agility Strategic Thinking

Course Offerings

Instructor Led Live sessions
Clarify doubts during session
Access Session Recordings
Attend on mobile and Tablet
Assessments and Competition
Direct Messages
Feedback from Instructor
Full lifetime Resources
Certificate of Completion

Topics
Instructor (1)
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1 Introduction to chess

Names of various chess pieces and their point value.
The coordinate system.
Movement of pieces.
Capturing pieces.
Symbols and notation.
Classification of pieces.
Strengths and weaknesses of pieces.

2 Special moves in chess

Castling
En-passant
Promotion

3 Understanding situations in chess

Check
Checkmate
Stalemate

4 Exchanges/trades

Even exchanges
Uneven exchanges
Beneficial exchanges

5 Checks

Giving checks
Getting rid of a check.

6 Checkmate in one move

Checkmate in one move

7 Attack and defence

Attacking a piece
Providing support to a piece
Identification of threat and proper choice of defence.

8 Basic tactics-I

Forks and double attacks
Pins
Skewers
Discovered attack
Discovered check

9 Basic tactics-II

Deflection
Interference
Annihilation of defence
Intermediate moves
Zugzwang and its applications.

10 Checkmate in two moves

Checkmate in two moves

11 Drawing techniques

Stalemate
Threefold repetition
Insufficient material
Draw by mutual agreement
Photography
Fifty-move rule

12 Checkmate patterns

Checkmate patterns

13 How to checkmate a lone king?

Checkmate using queen.
Checkmate using rook.
Checkmate using two rooks.
Checkmate using two bishops.

14 Concept of openings

Names of various openings and their starting moves

15 Basic king-pawn endgames

The opposition
Key squares
Mined and corresponding squares
Triangulation
King vs passed pawns

16 Additional topics

Trapping pieces
Classification of pawns.

17 Revision

Revision

Debankan Dhara

About Instructor

I am a chess player and a coach playing since 2005. I am currently 1933 FIDE rated. I have nurtured many kids and look forward to do the same.

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Mr.Debankan sir is very good at teaching chess. We appreciate his attention towards each student during his class.

Kunal Walhe

Feb. 15, 2022, 5:15 a.m.

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