We offer multi-level in person and online classes to students. Each students’ level would be different and they will be grouped accordingly.
Our student/coach ratio will be less than 6-8 students per session to ensure quality. We group students into beginner, intermediate, and advanced and each group is expected to master the following concepts and knowledge.
Chess Starter 1 program is a 10 or 12 weeks program to build up the fundamentals of chess and students are expected to graduate onto chess starter 2 where they start to grow with their chess plans and ideas. These classes are 1 hour long. Intermediate series are 1.5 hour long on virtual platform and 1 hour in person. All programs are lead by our head coach whom is a USCF National Master.
For Chess Starter 1 / Chess Starter 2 students:
- The chess board: 64 Squares, files, and ranks
- The Language of Chess – Coordinates
- Diagonals, the center, piece movements and values
- Check, Checkmate, and Stalemate
- Various Basic Checkmate Patterns with pieces familiarization
- Queen and Helper Checkmate.
- Basic Opening Theories
- Introduction to tactics
- Review of Chess Starter course items.
- Introduction to tactics
- Introduction to patterns and puzzles
- Introduction to visualization and the importance of it
- Introduction to opening theories and finding your opening
- Introduction to positional play
For Intermediate 1 / Intermediate 2 Students:
- Review of various Basic Checkmate Patterns with pieces familiarization
- Review of Queen and Helper Checkmate.
- Opening Theories
- Familiarize with tactics
- The real meaning of trading
- Good and Bad pieces vs Good and Bad trading
- Familiarize with Opening/Mid/End game separation.
- Introduction to puzzles with checkmate in 1 and 2 patterns.
- Different mating patterns with pieces
- Visualization I
- Basic Opening Traps
- Basic Middle game
- Basic Endgame
- Intermediate Checkmates patterns
- Intermediate tactics
- Introduction to Deeper Pattern Recognition of Combination
- Defense
For Advanced Students:
- Visualization II
- Endgame with different combination of pieces
- Advanced tactics
- Positional Strategy
- Pawn Structure
- Good and Bad Squares
- Outpost
- Learning Opening Preparation
Online Class Prerequisite:
- Laptop or Computer with access to internet and Speaker/microphone/Webcam
- lichess.org account
- We can help you with the lichess.org account creation and skype/zoom install.
- Zoom Meeting
In-Person Prerequisite:
- Be ready to learn chess
- Be ready to think hard!
- We will take care of the rest. 🙂