Training Curriculum
Draft
Draft
Foundation Training Program Curriculum
Week 1
Laws of Chess
Competition Rules
Practice Game - Simultaneous Exhibition
Concept of Attack - Capture, Combat, Check the King
Concept of Defense - Protection, Getting out of Check
Practice - Check in 1, and Check in 2, Looking for protected & unprotected pieces, Identifying Hanging Pieces,
Week 3
Practice - Looking for protected & unprotected pieces, Identifying Hanging Pieces,
Basic Principles of Openings
Control of Center
Development of Pieces - Minor First, followed by Major Pieces
Avoid Multiple Moves with same Pieces
Avoid Blunders and Risk
Week 4
Stages of Game
Recording the Game
Practice Puzzles
Week 5
Simple Opening Lines
Week 6
Board Coordinates and Colors
Blind Board Practice
Practice Puzzles
Week 7
Endgame Introduction
Queen
Rook
Pawn (Opposition, Key Squares, Shouldering, Outflanking)
Chess Fundamentals Test and Review
Basic Theory - Introduction to Concepts like - Plan, Strategy, Advantage
Piece Mobilization
Bishop, & Combinations (Rook Bishop, Bishop Pawn, Bishop Knight)
Other Combinations (Rook Knight, Knight Pawn)
Open Spaces & Lines
Outposts
Practice
Week 5
Middle Game Introduction
Tactical Motifs
Pin
Absolute Pin
Relative Pin
Fork
Week 6
Discovered Attacks
Discovered Double Attack
Discovered Check
Discovered Double Check
Windmill
Week 7
Skewer
Creating Forcing Moves
Forcing a Draw by Repetition or State-mate
Perpetual Checks
Week 8
Board Co-ordinate Study
Blind Board Training
Classical Game Analysis
Practice Games
Doubt Resolution
Advanced - Training Curriculum
(Month 1 - Warm Up, & Openings)
Week 1
Rating & Title Regulations
Types of Tournaments
Blind Chess Practice
Week 2
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