OLMC Advanced Beginner (Grades 3-8) Winter 2019

  • Chess
OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
Nov 29 2018
Mar 07 2019
Advanced Beginner (Grades 3 - 8)
$220.00
  1. Sun 
  2. Mon 
  3. Tue 
  4. Wed 
  5. Thu3:00 - 4:00 pm
  6. Fri 
  7. Sat 

Description

Intermediate (advanced beginner) class description

 

  • Brief review of chess rules: capture; castle, 'en passant', pawn promotion; check; checkmate; stalemate (all from beginner class)
  • Basic tactics I (tactical devices to gain material for purpose of later strategic victory)
    1. Pin
    2. Double attack (i.e. fork)
    3. Discover threat/check/attack (also double check!)
    4. Skewer
  •  Basic tactics II  (simple combinations)
  1. Piece values (relative to each other, position)
  2. Unique piece combinations (i.e. Bishop, rook, etc.)
  3. Deflections, Decoys, “In-Between moves,” Overloads

  • End-Of-Game (continue)

    1. Rule of the square of the pawn
    2. Zugzwang (possible in middlegame, probable in most endgames)
    3. Tempi (Triangulation as a means of losing tempi at end to force Zugzwang)
    4. Chess Tournaments

Class dates

11/29/2018, 12/06/2018, 12/13/2018, 12/20/2018, 01/03/2019, 01/10/2019, 01/17/2019, 01/24/2019, 01/31/2019, 02/07/2019, 02/14/2019, 02/28/2019, 03/07/2019

Restrictions

Participants must currently be in grades 3 to 8.

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 6

Maximum: 16

Registration period

Registration starts on 11/05/2018.

In-person location

OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
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