This structured beginner chess course introduces students to all the essential elements of the game - from the layout of the board and piece values to winning strategies and defensive techniques. Through engaging instruction, revision-based learning, and real-time gameplay, learners gain confidence in attacking, defending, and checkmating with efficiency. The course is designed for first-time players or those looking to solidify their basics with clarity and control.

Key Benefits:

• Understand rules, notations, and piece values
• Learn practical tactics: forks, checks, discovered and double checks
• Build critical thinking, memory, and decision-making skills
• Master endgame techniques to win confidently
• Structured for school learners, hobbyists, and aspiring players

What You’ll Learn:

Chess Basics

• Introduction to the chessboard and notation

• Initial piece setup and understanding directions

• Piece-by-piece study: Pawn, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Queen

• Revision of piece movement and their importance

Piece Value & Strategy

• Understanding piece value in trades

• Choosing the right piece to capture

• Introduction to attacking strategies

Winning Material & Offensive Play

• How to win specific pieces: Knight, Bishop, Rook, Queen

• Basic attacking logic and traps

• Simplifying to a material advantage

Defensive Techniques

• Defense by escaping attacks (moving away)

• Supporting pieces and defending together

• Capturing as defense

• Interposing to block checks

Check, Checkmate & Special Rules

• Recognizing check and defending against it

• Mate in one (simple and complex)

• Castling: rules and uses

• Discovered and double check explained

Draw Scenarios & Endgames

• Stalemate and perpetual check

• Mate in two puzzles

• Endgame mastery:

  • Queen + Rook vs King

  • Rook + Rook vs King

  • Queen + King vs King