OLMC Beginner Chess Trimester 1

  • Chess
OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
Sep 12 2025
Nov 21 2025
Beginner Chess (Grades K - 2)
$175.00 USD $150.00

Early bird price expires on Sep 09, 2025 at 11:59 PM

  1. Thu3:00 - 4:00 pm

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

09/18/2025, 09/25/2025, 10/02/2025, 10/09/2025, 10/16/2025, 10/23/2025, 10/30/2025, 11/06/2025, 11/13/2025, 11/20/2025

Restrictions

Participants must currently be in grades kindergarten to 2.

Program enrollment capacity

Minimum: 6

Maximum: 12

Registration period

Registration starts on 07/30/2025 and ends on 09/26/2025.

In-person location

OLMC Tenafly: 10 County Rd, Tenafly, NJ 07670, USA
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