Alpine School Chess Club Spring Semester

ADVANCED BEGINNER / INTERMEDIATE CLASSES (at least two semesters of chess) 

• 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)
  a. Pin
  b. Double attack (i.e. fork)
  c. Discover threat/check/attack (also double check!)
  d. Skewer
• Basic tactics II (simple combinations)
  a. Piece values (relative to each other, position)
  b. Unique piece combinations (i.e. Bishop, rook, etc.)
  c. Deflections, Decoys, “In-Between moves,”
  Overloads
• End-Of-Game (continue)
  a. Rule of the square of the pawn
  b. Zugzwang (possible in middlegame, probable in most endgames)
  c. Tempi (Triangulation as a means of losing tempi at end to force Zugzwang)
• Chess Tournaments