OLMC Beginner Chess Winter 2019

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

Description

Beginner Class Description

 

  • 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:
    1. checkmate -or the goal of the game
    2. development of pieces (more squares means stronger pieces)
    3. stalemate
    4. capturing the opponent’s pieces
    5. piece value (absolute, and relative)

 

  • Check Mate Concepts (The common‘how to's”)
  1. mate with queen & king against king
  2. mate with 2 rooks, or 1 rook 1 queen (Ladder mate)
  3. mate with 1 rook and king against king
  4. mate traps in the beginning of the game (scholar’s, fool’s, Legal’s)
  5. mate traps in the middle game (Batteries, plus Smother, anastasia, Arabian, etc.)

  • Basic End-Of-Game principles

  1. King becomes strong at end-of the game
  2. Pawn & King against King (opposition, flanking)
  3. Simple end-game positions for practice

 

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 kindergarten to 2.

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 6

Maximum: 12

Registration period

Registration starts on 11/05/2018.

In-person location

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