Online Chess Lessons For Kids And Beginners
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0-1200
| 1. Capturing pieces (part 1) 2. Capturing pieces (part 2) 3. Threat 4. Castle 5. En-pasant, promotion of the pawn 6. Goal of the game. Check. Mate 7. Draw 8. Pieces and their value 9. Defense. Exchanging pieces 10. Zugzwang 11. Chess notation 12. Permissions and obligations of a chess player 13. Mating with heavy pieces 14. Mate with 2 rooks 15. Mating with queen 16. Mating with 1 rook 17. How to win a game, having a big material advantage 18. Short games analyzes 19. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 1) 20. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 2) 21. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 3) 22. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 4) 23. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 5) 24. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 6) 25. Tactical motives. What is a chess combination (part 7) 26. Competition in solving problems 27. Famous games 28. How to start a game of chess 29. Principles of fast development 30. The importance of center in a chess game |
31. Flexible pawn chains 32. Combination solving tournament 33. When the move is made too early 34. Harmony between pieces 35. Weak square f7 36. Puzzles tourney 37. Chess classics 38. How to play an endgame 39. Using an advantage to win a game 40. Mating with a knight and a bishop 41. King and the pawn vs. King 42. What is square in chess? 43. Opposition 44. Key squares 45. Geometric motives 46. King and the pawn (a, h) vs. King 47. King and any pawn vs. King 48. Using geometric motives 49. Space advantage 50. Solving exercises 51. Analyzing famous games 52. Overview of openings 53. Kings Gambit 54. Central Gambit 55. North Gambit 56. Bishop opening 57. Knight opening 58. Latvian gambit 59. Solving problems competition 60. Chess classics |
1200-1400
| 1. What is a pin (part 1) 2. What is a pin (part 2) 3. What is a fork (part 1) 4. What is a fork (part 2) 5. Discovered threats 6. Discovered check (part 1) 7. Discovered check (part 2) 8. Double check 9. What is a combination? Combinations using bishops on open diagonals 10. Bishop sacrifices on h7/h2 11. Combinations using knights (part 1) 12. Combinations using knights (part 2) 13. Pawn combinations (part 1) 14. Pawn combinations (part 2) 15. Combinations with heavy pieces (part 1) 16. Combinations with heavy pieces (part 2) 17. Typical combinations using coordinated pieces (part 1) 18. Typical combinations using coordinated pieces (part 2) 19. Brilliant chess games 20. Deception combinations (part 1) 21. Deception combinations (part 2) 22. Blockading combinations (part 1) 23. Blockading combinations (part 2) 24. Abstraction combinations 25. Releasing squares combinations 26. Releasing lines combinations 27. Covering squares combinations 28. Removing defense 29. Capturing the important squares |
30. Removing opponent blockades 31. Using ideas in combinations 32. Isolation and covering 33. Chess puzzles 34. Traps in chess 35. Chess classics 36. Attacking the uncastled king (part 1) 37. Attacking the uncastled king (part 2) 38. Attacking with kings on the same side (part 1) 39. Attacking with kings on the same side (part 2) 40. Attacking with opposite castled kings (part 1) 41. Attacking with opposite castled kings (part 2) 42. Endings-Winning ending with extra pawn 43. Passing pawns in endings 44. Protected passing pawn in endings 45. Queen vs. passing pawn (2) 47. Draw-Having a huge material advantage 48. Basic rook endings 49. Typical ideas in rook endings 50. Endings- When bishop is stronger that a knight (2) 52. Endings- Same color bishops 53. Endings- Different color bishops 54. Good and bad bishops 55. Strong and weak squares 56. Pawn weaknesses 57. Open line 58. 7th (2nd) row 59. Chess classics 60. Brilliance in chess |
1400-1600
| 1. Observation of openings 2. Open openings. Philidor defense 3. Russian opening 4. Solving problems event 5. Scottish Gambit 6. Scottish Gambit 7. Evans Gambit 8. Italian defense 9. Combination solving tournament 10. Hungarian Opening 11. 2 knights opening 12. 4 knights opening 13. Combination solving tournament 14. Ponziani opening 15. Austrian Opening 16. Ruy Lopez opening 17. Combination solving tournament 18. Winning in 2 moves 19. Chess classics 20. Calculation blunders 21. Training calculation technique 22. Good and bad bishops/knights: when the knight is better than a bishop and when the bishop is better than a knight 23. Different color bishop in the middlegame 24. Using “bad” pieces 25. Open lesson 26. Using open and half-open lines 27. Attacking the king using open lines 28. Using outpost with open lines 29. Fighting for open lines 30. Strong pawn center 31. Attacking the pawn center |
32. Pieces vs. pawn center 33. Pawn-pieces center 34. The role of center in side attacks 35. 2 bishops in the middlegame and endgame 36. Combination competition 37. Chess classics 38. Weak points in opponent structure 39. Weak pawn chains 40. Strong squares 41. Pawn weaknesses 42. Doubled pawns 43. Lonely pawn on half-open line 44. Passing pawn 45. Queen vs. 2 rooks 46. Queen vs. rook and a light piece 47. Queen vs. 3 light pieces 48. Compensation for a queen 49. 2 rooks vs. 3 light pieces 50. 2 light pieces vs. rook and pawns 51. Rook vs. a light piece and 2 pawns 52. Compensation for a rook 53. Light piece vs. 3 pawns 54. Compensation for a light piece 55. Useful positions 56. Geometry of a board. Pushing pieces a side 57. Endings with passing pawns for both sides 58. Endings with blocked pawns for both 59. Break through 60. A better pawn chain 61. Using tempo 62. Active king 63. Transition to the pawn ending as a tool for realization of advantage |
1600-1800
| 1. Half-open openings(general lesson, Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann, Modern Defence) 2. 1.e4 miscellaneous (1…b6, 1…Nf6, 1…Nc6) 3. Scandinavian Opening 4. French Defence 1 5. French Defence 2 6. Combination solving event 7. Modern Defence 8. Caro-Kann Opening 1 9. Caro-Kann Opening 2 10. Etudes solving tournament 11. Sicilian avoid lines (Alapin, 2.b3, 2.f4, 2.d3, 2.Nc3, 3.Bb5+, 3.Qxd4) 12. Sicilian Paulsen 13. Sicilian Sveshnikov 1 14. Sicilian Sveshnikov 2 15. “Predict-a-Move” event 16. Sicilian Najdorf 1 17. Sicilian Najdorf 2 18. Sicilian Dragon 1 19. Sicilian Dragon 2 20. Famous miniatures 21. Sicilian Scheveningen 1 22. Sicilian Scheveningen 2 23. Calculation technique training 24. Isolated pawn: strong or weak? 25. The “loose pawns” 26. Typical pawn structures 1 27. Typical pawn structures 2 28. Blitz tournament, theme: half-open openings 29. Exchange sacrifice 30. Basic knight endgames 31. Positions with unusual material report (ex. rook against 5 pawns) |
32. Complex knight endgames 33. Complex rook endgames 34. Evaluate a position: 3 positions with complex strategic issues 35. Basic queen endgames (Q+P vs. Q) 36. Complex queen endgames 37. Combination solving event 38. Calculation technique: theoretical issue 39. Opening traps: half-open openings 40. Transition from the opening to the middlegame 1 41. Transition from the opening to the middlegame 2 42. Practicing endgames: group members playing 10 min-games from complex endgame positions 43. Analyzing your game: analysis of 2-3 games of the group members 44. The “double bishop sacrifice” 45. Rook vs. 2 pieces: middlegame 46. Rook vs. 2 pieces: endgame 47. Combination solving event 48. Criteria for evaluating a position 1 49. Criteria for evaluating a position 2 50. Evaluating complex strategically positions: practical lesson 51. Famous WCH match games: The K-K struggle 52. Puzzle solving event 53. From middle game to endgame 54. Complex pawn endgames 55. Using the long diagonal 56. “Predict-a-Move” event 57. Open files as a factor of attacking the king 58. Using a lead in development 59. Exposed kings position as a strategic factor 60. Combination solving event |
1800-2000
| 1. Analysis of students games 2. Pawns endgames 3. Minority attack 4. The positional sacrifice 1 5. How to play openings 6. Rooks endgames 7. Chess classics 8. “Bluff” in chess 9. Practice positions 10. Finding the best plan in a chess game 11. Etudes solving competition 12. Coverage of latest GM games 13. Queens endgames 14. The positional sacrifice 2 15. Defending a difficult position 16. Positional understanding 17. Chess by Aaron Nimzovich part 1 18. Candidate moves; how to choose a move 19. The “double bishop sacrifice” 20. Open files as a factor of attacking the king 21. Evaluate a position: 3 positions with complex strategic issues 22. Working on special opening needs 23. Chess by Aaron Nimzovich part 2 24. Analysis of students games 25. Bishops endgames 26. Famous games analyzed from the Kasparov-Karpov matches |
27. Strategies of openings 28. The Poisoned Pawn b2: take or not? 29. Positional exercises 30. Capablanca-Alkehin famous match 31. Analyzing student games 32. Knights endgames 33. Practice middlegame positions. 34. The basics on prophylaxis in chess 35. Important ideas in middlegames 36. Exchange sacrifice 37. Pawn chains 38. Tactical vision in a chess game 39. Play like a Grandmaster by Kotov-Examples 40. Complicated endgames 41. The Gambits 42. Strategies in modern chess openings 43. Main lines in openings of world chess champions 44. The classical and the modern blockade 45. Exchanging the right pieces 46. Delayed castling 47. How to defend against attack 48. Saving bad positions 49. Importance of chess center 50. Isolated pawns 51. Passed pawns 52. Choosing a candidate move |
Online Lessons
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