Lake Hiawatha Beginner (Grades K-2) Chess Club Spring 2020

  • Chess
Lake Hiawatha Elementary School: 1 Lincoln Ave, Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034, USA
Mar 12 2025
May 07 2025
Beginner (Grades K - 2)
$150.00 $136.00

Early bird price expires on Mar 02, 2025 at 11:59 PM

  1. Mon 
  2. Tue 
  3. Wed 
  4. Thu3:35 - 4:35 pm
  5. Fri 
  6. Sat 
  7. Sun 

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

03/13/2025, 03/20/2025, 03/27/2025, 04/03/2025, 04/10/2025, 04/17/2025, 04/24/2025, 05/01/2025

Restrictions

Participants must currently be in grades kindergarten to 2.

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 6

Maximum: 20

Registration period

Registration starts on 01/28/2025 and ends on 03/11/2025.

In-person location

Lake Hiawatha Elementary School: 1 Lincoln Ave, Lake Hiawatha, NJ 07034, USA
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