CHESS CURRICULUM

Openings: King’s Indian

Openings: Ruy Lopez and Italian Game

Openings: Sicilian

Openings: French and Caro-Kann

Openings: Queen’s Gambit and Dutch Defense

Openings: Gambits

Openings: Opening Traps

Strategy: How to Choose a Move and Make a Plan

Strategy: Good and Bad Pieces

Strategy: Positional Play

Activating Your Pieces: Pawn Breakthroughs and Blockading Pawns

Activating Your Pieces: Pawns in the Middlegame

Activating Your Pieces: Isolated and Hanging Pawns

Activating Your Pieces: Outposts

Activating Your Pieces: Batteries

Activating Your Pieces: Rooks on the Seventh Rank

Activating Your Pieces: The Bishop Pair and Bishops vs. Knights

Activating Your Pieces: Windmill

Attacking the King: Attacking the Castled King and Provoking Weaknesses

Attacking the King: Pawn Storms

Attacking the King: Advanced Checkmate Patterns and Mating Nets

Attacking the King: Defending the King

Advanced Tactics: Exchange and Clearance Sacrifices

Advanced Tactics: Overloading and Interference

Advanced Tactics: Underpromotion

Endgame Patterns: Distant Opposition

Endgame Patterns: Zugzwang and Triangulation

Endgame Patterns: Pieces vs. Pawns