Intermediate Course (Level-3)

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with opening principles, middle game tactical motifs and basic endgames OR successful completion of our advanced-beginners’ course.

Contents: Undermining tactics-(Destroying the Defender, Deflection & Decoy tricks etc,). Repertoire building (In depth coverage of ‘select’ opening strategies). Middlegame combinations (assorted tactics). Mating patterns, 3 & 4 move Checkmate problems. Concepts of Planning & Decision Making. Principles of attack (King in the centre, Castled King), Focal points. Practice games & analysis. Endings: Basic checkmate (King + Bishop & Knight v/s King), Triangulation, Advanced King and pawn, Queen v/s advanced Pawn, The wrong rook pawn. Ideas behind a few opening strategies etc.

Age group: 7 onwards.

Course Schedule: Once a week - 90 minutes session- 20 sessions in 5 months.

Batch Strength: Ideally 14 students in a batch.

Course Fees: Rs. 3750/=

Delivery Method: Lessons will be taught on an Electronic Demonstration Chess-set, the academy uses state of the art chess-teaching apparatus that saves loads of time and helps include a lot of supplementary material which, the conventional demonstration chess-set does not allow.

Practice: A two-hour practice session will be held on Sundays. “Practice makes perfect”, it is an integral part of any learning process; the academy endeavors to maintain a minimum instruction/practice ratio of 1:2, i.e. an hour of instruction is supplemented by 2 hours of practice at least. This helps in reinforcing key concepts as the students get a chance to practically implement the theory taught. Students are given home assignments.

Tournament: Two practice tournaments will be held; first, in the middle & second, towards the end of the course.

Evaluation: To evaluate the knowledge-level of the students an exam will be conducted at the end of the Course.

Validation: On successful completion the student will be awarded a Diploma Certificate.

What to expect: At the end of the course, the student should be able to play a full game of chess at a fairly advanced level. The student will be expected to perform well in competition with other players. The student would be familiar with a ‘select’ few opening strategies, will be adept at middle game combinations, will be familiar with middle game planning and would have developed good attacking skills.