Advanced Beginner (Grades 3 - 8)
$200.00 USD
- Thu3:00 - 4:00 pm
Description
Intermediate (advanced beginner) class description
- 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)
- Pin
- Double attack (i.e. fork)
- Discover threat/check/attack (also double check!)
- Skewer
- Basic tactics II (simple combinations)
- Piece values (relative to each other, position)
- Unique piece combinations (i.e. Bishop, rook, etc.)
- Deflections, Decoys, “In-Between moves,” Overloads
End-Of-Game (continue)
- Rule of the square of the pawn
- Zugzwang (possible in middlegame, probable in most endgames)
- Tempi (Triangulation as a means of losing tempi at end to force Zugzwang)
- Chess Tournaments
Class dates
03/20/2025, 03/27/2025, 04/03/2025, 04/10/2025, 04/17/2025, 04/24/2025, 05/01/2025, 05/08/2025, 05/15/2025, 05/22/2025, 05/29/2025, 06/05/2025, 06/12/2025
Restrictions
Participants must currently be in grades 3 to 8.
Program enrollment capacity
Registration period
Registration starts on 02/14/2025 and ends on 03/31/2025.
In-person location
OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA