This beginner-level chess course lays a solid foundation for new players by covering all the essentials—board setup, notation, piece movement, tactics, and key strategies. Through engaging lessons and guided practice, students will learn to analyze positions, make smart moves, and finish games with precision. Perfect for kids and teens new to the game, this course makes chess both accessible and exciting through real-time play, puzzles, and mini-tournaments.

Key Benefits:

• Understand chess rules, piece values, and fundamental tactics
• Develop logical thinking and planning skills
• Build strategies for attack, defense, and endgames
• Learn checkmate patterns and avoid common traps
• Gain confidence through guided games and live feedback

What You’ll Learn:

Introduction to Chess

• Overview of chess and the board layout

• Understanding square coordinates (notation)

• Initial position of pieces and setup

Know Your Pieces

• How each piece moves: Pawn, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Queen, King

• Piece value and role in gameplay

• Revision of piece movements

Basic Tactics – Attack & Capture

• Choosing which piece to capture

• Winning a Knight, Bishop, Rook, or Queen

• Basic capture strategies and tactical thinking

Learning Defense

• Defense by moving away

• Supporting a piece under attack

• Capturing to defend

• Interposing to block threats

Special Moves & Checkmate

• What is Check and Checkmate

• Simple Mate in One patterns

• Castling and its strategic purpose

• Discovered check and double check

• Complicated Mate in One

Draws & Advanced Patterns

• Understanding stalemate and perpetual check

• Mate in Two techniques

• Common endgame checkmates:
  • Queen + Rook
  • Rook + Rook
  • Queen + King