L3 Academy Beginner Chess Club

  • Chess
L3 Academy: 1 Greenwood Ave #101, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
Sep 24 2018
Nov 19 2018
Beginner Class Grade 1-8
$270.00
  1. Mon4:15 - 5:15 pm

Description

Beginner I and Beginner II classes
 Rules of the game: how pawns/pieces move & capture; what is attack, castle, 'en passant', pawn promotion; check; checkmate; notation – I.e. The “abc’s” of chess.
 Basic strategy:
a. checkmate -or the goal of the game
b. development of pieces (more squares means stronger pieces)
c. stalemate
d. capturing the opponent’s pieces
e. piece value (absolute, and relative)
 Check Mate Concepts (The common‘how to's”)
a) mate with queen & king against king
b) mate with 2 rooks, or 1 rook 1 queen (Ladder mate)
c) mate with 1 rook and king against king
d) mate traps in the beginning of the game (scholar’s, fool’s, Legal’s)
e) mate traps in the middle game (Batteries, plus Smother, anastasia, Arabian, etc.)
 Basic End-Of-Game principles
a) King becomes strong at end-of the game
b) Pawn & King against King (opposition, flanking)
c) Simple end-game positions for practice

Class dates

09/24/2018, 10/01/2018, 10/08/2018, 10/15/2018, 10/22/2018, 10/29/2018, 11/05/2018, 11/12/2018, 11/19/2018

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 6

Maximum: 8

Registration period

Registration starts on 08/01/2017 and ends on 09/17/2018.

In-person location

L3 Academy: 1 Greenwood Ave #101, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
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