Basic course: Level 1

01. The game of chess - its brief history and benefits of playing the game.  

02. Positioning the chess board, chess men arrangement and movements.

03. Deep examination of the board's geometry and understanding its interconnectedness with mathematics.

04. Relationship of chess men with the chess board. 

05. All the basic rules of the game.   

06. Special moves : a)Castling, b)En passant, c)Pawn promotion.

07. Checking the King and escape formula.

08. Checkmate.

09. Stalemate.

10. Relative value of pieces.   

11. Count technique.

12. Chess notation (art of recording one's own game).   

13. Types of Draws and its rules.  

14. Usage of the chess clock.   

17. The common rules of a chess tournament.

18. Different time formats of the game & the corresponding  approach.

19. Simple checkmates : a)Mate in one, b)Mate in two, c)Mate in three.

20. Longer checkmates : a)Mate in four b)Mate in five and beyond.

21. Different mating motifs:

      1) Anastasia's mate.

      2) Anderssen's mate.

      3) Arabian mate.

      4) Back rank mate.

      5) Balestra mate.

      6) Blackburne's mate.

      7) Blind swine mate.

      8) Boden's mate.

      9) Bombardier's mate.

    10) Bucking Bronco mate.

 11) Collaboration mate.

    12) Corner mate.

    13) Cozio mate.

    14) Damiano's mate.

    15) David and Goliath mate.

 16) Diagonal corridor mate.

    17) Double Bishop mate.

    18) Dovetail mate.

    19) Epaulette mate.

    20) Greco mate.

    21) h-file mate.

    22) Hook mate.

    23) Kill box mate.

    24) Lawn mower mate.

    25) Legal's mate.

    26) Lolli's mate.

    27) Lucena's mate.

    28) Max Lange's mate.

    29) Mayet's mate.

    30) Morphy's mate.

    31) Opera mate.

    32) Pawn mate.

    33) Pillusburry's mate.

    34) Queen-Bishop battery mate.

    35) Queen-Rook battery mate.

    36) Railroad mate.

    37) Reti's mate.

    38) Smothered mate.

    39) Sneaky Stallion mate.

    40) Stamma's mate.

    41) Suffocation mate.

    42) Swallow's tail mate.

    43) Triangle mate.

    44) Two knight's mate.

    45) Vuckovic mate.

22. Opening phase of a game : 

      1) How to start a game.  

      2) How to avoid opening mistakes.  

      3) How to punish opening mistakes and deviations.   

      4) Significance of playing in the center.

      5) How to create a pawn center.

      6) How to quickly develop pieces.

      7) Study of short games and traps employed by world champions and Grandmasters    against amateurs.

      8) General opening theory.

23. Creating a plan.

24. Strategy: what is the task?

25. Tactics : How to execute the task?

26. Climax : the lifeblood of combinations. 

27. Middle game combinations.

      a)The PIN.  

      b)The Knight fork.  

      c)The double attack. 

28. End game : study of elementary checkmates

      a) K+ 2 Queens vs. K using ladder and nearest edge techniques.

      b) K+Q+R vs. K using ladder and nearest edge techniques.

      c) K+R+R vs. K using ladder and nearest edge techniques.

      d) K+Q vs. K using Box and imprisonment techniques.

      e) K+Q vs. R using Box, imprisonment and waiting move techniques.

      f)  K+2 Bishops vs. K using diagonal wall technique.

29. Practical Chess puzzles : The right thinking process to solve them.

30. Centralizing the pieces.

31. Opening central files against uncastled king.  

32. Winning the material.

33. Converting the material advantage to victory.

34. Under-promotion.

35. Cut off technique.

36. Checking distance.

37. Exercises to test your understanding in every theme.

38. Why is it vital to have fun in the game?

39. Intra-batch tournaments and regular play against me to internalize all that is learnt in the theory.