Training Curriculum
(Month 1 - Warm Up, & Openings)
Week 1
Rating & Title Regulations
Types of Tournaments
Blind Chess Practice
Week 2
Revision of Foundation Program
Fundamentals of Game Play
Blind Chess Practice
Week 3 & 4
Common Chess Openings
Open Lines (1.e4 e5) - Ruy Lopez; Scotch Game; Italian Game; Petrov's Defense; Philidor Defense; Vienna Game
Semi Open Lines (1.e4 other) - Sicilian Defense; French Defense; Caro-Kann Defense; Scandinavian Defense; Pric defense; Alekhine's Defense
Closed Lines (1.d4 d5) - Queen's Gambit; Slav Defense;
Semi Closed Lines (1.d4 other) - Indian Defense; Benoni; Catalan; Dutch; Grunfeld
Flank Openings (1.c4, 1.Nf3, 1.f4, etc.) - English, Reti, Bird's
(Month 2 - Strategy & Endgame)
Week 5 & 6
End Game Tactics
Practice Games
Week 7 & 8
Strategy
Analysis of Classical Games - Botvinik VS Petrocian - 5th WC Game, etc
Positional Play Assessment of Position
(Month 3 - Tactics & Calculations)
Week 9 & 10
Tactics
Calculations
Analysis of Classical Games & Positions
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
(Month 4 - Dynamics, Imbalance, Advance Concepts, Repertoire, Practice Games)
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16