Complete Chess Course

Description
Course Content
What you'll learn?

Learning chess improves our memory, concentration and imagination. It tremendously helps in decision-making. The decisions you make impact other aspects of our life. Practical studies have shown that children who play Chess do very well in academics. Learning chess is akin to investing in our brain. Just like the way we need exercise for our body, chess is an exercise for our minds.

The areas in which chess improves your life:

1) Decision making: In chess, every more we make we have to think and choose from different variations. This ability helps later in your career when you need to make major decisions.

2) Memory: Practicing chess improves your memory. The way we train our brain to pick patterns, spot tactics from previous knowledge you obtained from courses like this will help you improve your memory. This naturally helps in your academics as well as your life.

3) Focus: You need to focus on your game when playing chess. This improves your ability to ignore distractions of whatever happens in the surroundings. This skill is absolutely necessary to get any job done.

4) Creativity: Training in chess improves your natural creativity. You'll learn how to break the per-conceived notions and play like an artist with chess.

5) Patience: After making your move you need to wait for your opponent's move in chess. You'll learn patience this way. Of course, you are not essentially wasting your time, you are planning for your next moves in advance during this time.

6) Concentration: After ignoring unnecessary distractions you'll learn how to concentrate on your game. These concentration skills are necessary while doing any work.

7) Calculation: Chess is about calculation. The way you exchange your pieces to your opponents to plan for a strategy to win, everything needs calculation. We dedicated separate lectures to improve your calculation depth in this course.

INTRODUCTION

1) Basics of chess

Introduction
Course Structure
Chess Board, Pieces, Placement, Center
How chess pieces move & capture ?
Special Moves
Value of Pieces
Stages of game
Rules of Chess
When is a chess game considered as win?
When is a chess game considered as draw?
Chess Notation
Chess Screenshot

OPENING

2) Opening game

What is an Opening?
Principles to consider while opening
Classification of Openings:
1. Places
2. Pieces
3. Players
4. Space
5. Style
6. Gambits
Opening traps
How to choose an opening?

MIDDLE GAME

3) Concepts

Bishop types
Bind
Blockade
Breakthrough
Cat & Mouse
Centralization
Connected Rooks
Critical Position
Defense
Exchange
Fianchetto
Forced Move
Fortress
Hanging Pawns
Hedgehog
Holes
Initiative
Manoeuvre
Minority Attack
Open File
Overprotection
Overloaded Piece
Passed pawn
Pawn Types
Positional Play
Pressure
Principle of Two weaknesses
PROPHYLAXIS
Pursuit
Quiet move
Retreat
Rook Lift
Square Weakness
Style of Play
Tempo (time)
Trading
Trap
Underpromotion
Undermining
Weakness of Last move
Zugzwang

4) Tactics

Annihilation Of Defence (Removing The Defender)
Changing The Move Order
Clearance
Cross
Decoy
Deflection/Distraction
Demolition/Destructive Sacrifice
Desperado
Discovered Attack
Double Check
Fork
Pin
Sacrifices
Skewer
X-Ray
Zwischenzug/Intermezzo/In-between move

5) Sacrifices

Anti Castling Sacrifice
Classic Bishop Sacrifice
Development Sacrifice
Double Bishop Or Greek Gift Sacrifice
Double Sacrifice
En Prise Sacrifice
Equalizing Sacrifice
Exchange Sacrifice
Gain Sacrifice
Gambit
Hanging A Piece Sacrifice
King Hunt
King's Field Sacrifice
Mate Sacrifice
Pawn Sacrifices
Poisoned Pawn
Positional Sacrifice
Queen Sacrifice

END GAME

6) Combinations

What is a Combination?
SMOTHERED MATE
WINDMILL

7) Mating Patterns

What is a Mating Pattern/Mating Net?
Types of Mating Patterns
Basic Mating Patterns: a) With two Major pieces (Q+Q)
b) With two Major pieces (Q+R)
c) With two Major pieces (R+R)
d) With a Major piece (Queen)
e) With a Major piece (Rook)
f) With two Minor pieces (B+B)
g) With two Minor pieces (B+N)
Advanced Mating Patterns: a) Backrank mate
b) Smothered Mate
c) Anastasia’s Mate
d) Arabian Mate
e) Blackburne’s Mate
f) Boden’s Mate
g) Corner Mate
h) Damiano’s Mate
i) Damiano’s Bishop Mate
j) Pawn (David&Goliath) Mate
k) Dovetail Mate
l) Epaulette Mate
m) Greco’s Mate
n) Hook mate
o) Rook & Bishop mate (H-file Mate, Opera Mate)
p) Lolli’s Mate
q) Minor Piece Mate

8) Stalemating Patterns

Classic Pawn Stalemate
Congdon’s Stalemate
Queen Corner Stalemate
Tower Stalemate

9) Endgame Positions

Lucena Position
Philidor Position

10) Endgame Techniques

Opposition
Mating Nets
Rule of Square
Simplifying
Triangulation
Trebuchet
Endgame Drill

TOURNAMENT TIPS

11) Tournament Tips

What is a Chess Tournament?
What is Chess Rating/ Elo Rating ?
How can I get a chess rating?
What is Time Control and various time controls used?
What is advantage of participating in chess Tournaments?
What are Tie-breaks?
How to select a Tournament to participate?
How to get prepared for a chess tournament?

12) Analysis

How to analyze your chess game?
Analyzing some illustrous games
Great chess players and their styles
What are different softwares/apps to analyze chess game?
What are the best websites to practice chess

After completing this course you'll learn

How to arrange chess board correctly
Value of each chess piece
How does each chess piece moves & captures
All the special moves in chess
Different phases of chess game
Rules of chess
What is an illegal move
Different conditions under which a chess game is considered as a win/draw
How to write every move in a chess game
How to write a chess game position
Best opening principles
Different types of chess openings
What is a chess gambit
How to trap your opponent in the opening stage
Which openings are best for you
40+ crucial chess concepts that include
How to breakthrough a closed position
How to connect your rooks to form a battery
What is a critical position in chess
How to defend your chess pieces
Different types of exchanges in chess
What is a Fianchetto
What are forced moves in chess
How to form/break a fortress
What are hanging pawns, how to exploit them
What is a Hedgehog in chess
What are voids/holes in chess
How to gain initiative
Different piece maneuvers
What is Minority attack
The power of open files/ranks
What is Overprotection
What is an Overloaded chess piece
What are passed pawns
How to play positionally
How to increase pressure on a piece
Principle of Two weaknesses
What is Prophylaxis
Piece pursuit
What is a Quiet move in chess
How to safely retreat an attacked piece
What is Rook Lift
What is a square weakness
Different styles of chess
How to gain tempo in chess
How to trade your pieces wisely
What is underpromotion
What is undermining
Spotting the weakness of last move
What is Zugzwang in chess
16 common Tactics in chess (Pin, Fork, Skewer etc)
Different chess sacrifices
How to make a Queen sac the right way
What is a poisoned pawn
What is a chess combination
Common chess combinations in action
What is a Smothered mate
What is a Windmill
Different mating patterns and how to spot them
How to checkmate with different piece combinations
Common endgame theory
Which pieces do you actually need to checkmate
What is a Stalemate
Different types of Stalemates
Some important endgame positions
Endgame Techniques
Opposition
Mating Nets
Rule of Square
Simplifying
Triangulation
Trebuchet
How to spot a "Mate in n moves"
How to select a chess tournament
What is chess rating and how is it calculated
How to get FIDE rating in chess
What are various time controls used in chess
How to use a chess clock
What are the advantages of participating in chess tourneys (Prizes, Rating changes, Sports Quota Jobs)
What are tie-breaks in chess (Buccholz, Sonnebone Berger)
Where to search for a chess tournament?
How to analyze your chess game manually or with the help of chess engines?
What are different chess softwares/apps/websites to improve your chess