CHESS CURRICULUM

Using Your Pieces: Using Your Knights

Using Your Pieces: Using Your Bishops

Using Your Pieces: Using Your Rooks

Using Your Pieces: Using Your Queen

Using Your Pieces: Using Your King

Using Your Pieces: Using Your Pawns

Using Your Pieces: Pieces Working Together

Endgame Principles: Passed Pawns

Endgame Principles: The Rule of the Square

Endgame Principles: Escorting the Pawn

Endgame Principles: 3v3 Pawn Breakthroughs

Endgame Principles: Creating a Passed Pawn

Tactics: Sacrifices and Desperado

Tactics: Discovered Attacks and Discovered Checks

Tactics: Double Checks

Tactics: Trapped Pieces

Tactics: Removing the Defender, Deflection, and Decoy

Tactics: Zwischenzug

Tactics: Smothered Mate

Forcing Moves: Basics

Forcing Moves: Combinations

Forcing Moves: Mate in Three

Forcing Moves: Saving Draws

Reading the Board: Pawn Structures and Pawn Chains

Reading the Board: Pawn Tension (Push, Capture, Ignore)

Reading the Board: Space

Reading the Board: Open, Closed, and Semi-Open Games

Reading the Board: When to Trade Pieces