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Chess Level ONE Course

This document outlines the levels of a chess mastery foundation course. Level one covers the basics of chess including the board, pieces and their movement. It then covers checkmate patterns using single pieces like rooks, queens, and bishops. The level also teaches elementary checkmates, rules, and strategies for opening, middle and end games. The goal is to help students master checkmates and learn tactics to play better chess games.

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Chess Level ONE Course

This document outlines the levels of a chess mastery foundation course. Level one covers the basics of chess including the board, pieces and their movement. It then covers checkmate patterns using single pieces like rooks, queens, and bishops. The level also teaches elementary checkmates, rules, and strategies for opening, middle and end games. The goal is to help students master checkmates and learn tactics to play better chess games.

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CHESS-MASTERS FOUNDATION COURSE: LEVEL ONE

1. Introduction
 Invention

 Brief history of Chess

 Benefits of Chess

 Understanding Chess board

 Chess pieces, arrangement and their movement

2. Basics of Chess game


 Value and usefulness of pieces

 Check and checkmate

 Value and special feature of every pieces

 Legal and illegal moves

3. Mastering Checkmate in One


 Key checkmate scenarios of different combination of pieces

 Easy method of finding the checkmate move

 Step by step method

4. Chess Rules and special moves


 The touch and move rule

 Rules of draw

 Making use of stalemate and perpetual checks to split the point

 Castling

 Pawn promotion and pawn en passant

5. Elementary Checkmates

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Systematic checkmate procedure for checkmate with:

 Rolling rooks

o Mating patterns

o Precautions

o Complete step by step method

o Practical

 One Queen

o Mating patterns

o Precautions

o Complete step by step method

o Practical

 One Rook

o Mating patterns

o Precautions

o Complete step by step method

o Practical

 Improved rolling rook method with Queen and rook

o One Rook

o Mating patterns

o Precautions

o Complete step by step method

o Practical

 Bishop Pair

o Basic concept

o Mating patterns

o Precautions

o Complete step by step method

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o Practical

6. How to play a good game


How to open a game:

 Importance of centre

 Development of pieces and the order of development

 Figuring out the best places for pieces

 Which pieces to exchange and where to avoid exchanges

 Opening precautions

 Importance of pawns in front of king

 Why and when to move these pawns

 Hidden strength of these pawn and weaknesses

Middle game:

 Position analysis

 Identifying weaknesses

 Preparing a plan of attack

 Figuring out the best places

 Which pieces to exchange and where to avoid exchanges

End game:

 Change of role of king in end game

 Endgame patience and position improvement

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