8 weeks
Program is full - Waitlist available
$160.00
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri3:15 - 4:15 pm
- Sat
- Sun
Description
CLUB RULES:
Students should meet at the HHK School’s main entrance. Instructors will escort the students into the building at 3:15PM and late arriving students may have trouble getting into the building. Please be on time. Students will exit out the main entrance at 4:15 PM
No food, drink, or snacks during chess club.
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
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
Class dates
01/17/2025, 01/24/2025, 01/31/2025, 02/07/2025, 02/14/2025, 02/21/2025, 02/28/2025, 03/07/2025
Restrictions
Participants must currently be in grades 2 to 8.
Program enrollment capacity
Registration period
Registration starts on 01/03/2025 and ends on 01/17/2025.
In-person location
Ho-Ho-Kus Public School: 70 Lloyd Rd, Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ 07423, USA