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We will break down the ability and purpose of each chess peach and how they can be used to play a competitive game.

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Access to a Chess board- either digital of physical. It's also great to have a remedial understanding of each piece's shape and name.
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Beginner Level Chess Tutorial

Jun 03 2021 - Video Course (3 hrs 28 mins)

This course focuses on the basics of the chess rules, the abilities of the different pieces, the rules of castling, basic tactics, what each piece should be thinking about, and how to use them together while following opening principles. It shows the transformation between the opening, middlegame, and endgame, pointing out the key aspects and rules of each one. This is meant to give you a fair idea of what to do in whichever position you might get, even if you're not familiar with more advanced tactics and positional ideas.


Created by Mike Ivanov

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What you'll learn

We will break down the ability and purpose of each chess peach and how they can be used to play a competitive game.

Requirements

Access to a Chess board- either digital of physical. It's also great to have a remedial understanding of each piece's shape and name.

Course Content

2 Units - 25 video lessons
Lesson 1: All About Pawns and Kings
The pawns are the soul of chess. They are the most numerous pieces in the game of chess and in most circumstances, the weakest. Individual pawns are referred to by the file on which they stand. Pawns can become a queen. King is the most important piece in the game of chess. The king can move in any direction. In this video, you will learn how pawn and king chess pieces move.
07:43
Lesson 2: All About Knights and Bishops
A knight is a piece in the game of chess that is traditionally shaped like a horse. Knight pieces can jump. A chess knight has a value of three points, which makes it the same in relative value as a bishop. A bishop is a chess piece with a rounded top, and a slit cut into it. The bishops only move diagonally. In this video, you will learn how knight and bishop chess pieces move.
06:18
Lesson 3: All About Rooks and Queens
The rook is a piece in the game of chess resembling a castle. The rook moves horizontally or vertically through any number of unoccupied squares but cannot jump over pieces. The queen is the most powerful piece in the game of chess, able to move any number of squares vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, combining the power of the rook and bishop. In this video, you will learn how rooks and queen chess pieces move.
06:32
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Chess Board
A chessboard is usually square in shape, with an alternating pattern of squares in two colors. In this video, you will learn about how the chessboard works, what the chessboard is made out of, the king side, queen side, the central 4 squares, rank, file, and diagonal.
02:36
Lesson 2: Check, Checkmate, and Stalemate
Check is a term in chess when a player's king is attacked or under threat of capture. In this video, you will learn about all you need to know about check, checkmate, and stalemate. Checkmate is when the king has nowhere to go, and he is also in check. If a player is not in check but has no legal move, then it is a stalemate, and the game immediately ends in a draw. In this video, You will learn about the 3 ways to stop the check and more.
07:50
Lesson 3: The Blunder Check
The blunder check is making sure you know everything on the board that is under attack both in your pieces and in your opponent’s pieces. Before you make any move in chess or think about your next genius plan, take a few seconds to figure out what on the board is hanging, attacked, or can be captured. In this video, you learn all that you need to know about blunder checks.
03:28
Lesson 4: Staircase Checkmate
Staircase checkmate is called that name because it looks like we are stepping up down the staircase and walking until we get all the way to the end. In this video, you will learn how to do the staircase checkmate in chess which is one of the most basic mates you have to know in order to get the opponent’s king.
03:43
Lesson 5: Castling Rules
Castling is a special rule that allows your king to move two spaces to its right or left while the rook on that side moves to the opposite side of the king. In this video, you will learn what castling in chess is, how to do it, and when you can and can’t castle.
09:28
Lesson 6: Structure of the Castle
From the previous video, you learned that castling is a special rule that allows your king to move two spaces to its right or left, while the rook on that side moves to the opposite side of the king. When walking the king, we only walk the king two times in three or more. In this video, you will learn about the castle with examples.
06:41
Lesson 7: Basic Endgame- King and Pawn VS King
In this video, I will show you an endgame and how to play it. Always make sure you put your king in front of the pawn in an endgame because the king is a bodyguard for the pawn and protects the pawn at all times.
11:31
Lesson 8: The ABC's of Chess Openings
In this video, you will learn about the ABCs of chess which applies specially for the opening but also to the other part of the game. A stands for ‘activated pieces’, B stands for ‘be safe with the king’ and C stands for ‘centralize’.
11:37
Lesson 9: The En Passant Rule
En Passant is a special pawn capture that can only occur immediately after a pawn makes a move of two squares from its starting square, and it could have been captured by an enemy pawn had it advanced only one square. In this video, I will explain to you the tricky rule of En Passant in chess, and you will learn how En Passant rule works.
07:03
Lesson 10: 3 Steps of Development
In this video, you will learn about blueprints in chess and why you need pressure.. The blueprint should be made almost at the beginning of the game as you have taken out the central pumps. I am going to show you a game to demonstrate to you how the blueprints work.
12:28
Lesson 11: The Pieces Have Eyes
In this video, you will learn about the scope of pieces and differentiate between a good piece and a bad piece with a lot of examples.
12:00
Lesson 12: The Piece Race
In this video, I will share with you some middle game advice, especially how to make sure you get all your pieces out before your opponent into the middle game so that they can start fighting earlier and win the game earlier.
12:58
Lesson 13: How to Checkmate with a Queen
In this video, I will explain to you one of the easiest checkmates to do in chess which is the queen and king versus king checkmate. I will share with you the easiest way to do it. Watch this video till the end to learn the step-by-step process of checkmating with a queen.
04:56
Lesson 14: How to Checkmate with a Rook
In this video, you will learn how to do the rook versus king checkmate, which is a bit harder than the queen checkmate. You can do it if you know the two most important rules that I will be sharing with you in this course.
05:05
Lesson 15: Fool's Mate and Scholar's Mate
Fool’s mate, also known as the two-move checkmate, is the shortest mate in chess. Unlike Fool's Mate, which rarely occurs at any level, games ending in Scholar's Mate are quite common among beginners. In this video, you will learn about fool’s mate and scholar’s mate.
10:57
Lesson 16: All About Forks
In chess, a fork is a tactic which we use in almost every game as a good chess player. A fork is a tactic in which a piece attacks two or more pieces simultaneously. In this video, we will talk about forks in chess.
11:35
Lesson 17: All About Pins
In chess, a pin is a chess tactic in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece. Moving the attacking piece to bring on the pin is called pinning; the defending piece so restricted is described as pinned. In this video, you will learn more about pins.
07:55
Lesson 18: All About Skewers
In chess, a skewer is an attack upon two pieces in a line and is similar to a pin. A skewer is when a valuable piece is attacked, and when it moves, a lesser piece is exposed to capture. In this video, you will learn more about skewers.
04:03
Lesson 19: King's Pawn Openings
The King's Pawn Game is any chess opening starting with the move: 1. e4. It is the most popular opening move in chess, followed by the Queen's Pawn Game. In this video, you will learn about the king's pawn opening for white and for black.
06:23
Lesson 20: King Hikes and King Hunts
In this video, you will learn about king hunting in chess. The point of a king hunt is to bring the opponent’s king for a walk. I call it king hike. A king shouldn’t be going on a hike, but we force him or lure him out to the open where our pieces can game up and ambush him. I will share with you 3 examples of king hunts which are all very fun.
13:15
Lesson 21: Trading Pieces: Attackers vs. Defenders
A piece exchange (also known as "piece trade") happens in chess when both players capture each other's pieces in a series of related moves. Those moves do not need to be one right after the other, but there must be a connection between the captures. In this video, you will learn about good trades and bad trades.
11:18
Lesson 22: Endgame Principles
In this video, we will explore some endgames and learn the most important endgame principle. The king should hide in the middle game. The endgame has different rules than the middlegame. The concept of piece activity is extremely important in any endgame. Try to aim for an active setup of your pieces and avoid passive positions.
11:02

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Mike Ivanov

Chess Master

Mike learned chess from the age of 4 and achieved his current title of Fide Master at the age of 20. He has been teaching for over 8 years now and wants to see the next generation of Canadian chess juniors surpass him :). In the future, Mike still wants to attain the International Master title and still plays competitively a few times a year. He tries to teach what he would have liked to be taught when he was growing up, in an entertaining manner based on stories, jokes, and games.

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