Beginner Chess (Grades K - 2)
$200.00
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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.
- checkmate -or the goal of the game
- development of pieces (more squares means stronger pieces)
- stalemate
- capturing the opponent’s pieces
- piece value (absolute, and relative)
- Check Mate Concepts (The common‘how to's”)
- mate with queen & king against king
- mate with 2 rooks, or 1 rook 1 queen (Ladder mate)
- mate with 1 rook and king against king
- mate traps in the beginning of the game (scholar’s, fool’s, Legal’s)
- mate traps in the middle game (Batteries, plus Smother, anastasia, Arabian, etc.)
Basic End-Of-Game principles
- King becomes strong at end-of the game
- Pawn & King against King (opposition, flanking)
- Simple end-game positions for practice
Class dates
03/14/2019, 03/21/2019, 03/28/2019, 04/04/2019, 04/11/2019, 05/02/2019, 05/09/2019, 05/16/2019, 05/23/2019, 06/06/2019, 06/13/2019
Restrictions
Participants must currently be in grades kindergarten to 2.
Program enrollment capacity
Registration period
Registration starts on 02/14/2019.
In-person location
OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA