Training Curriculum

Foundation Training Program Curriculum

Week 1

1. Laws of Chess

2. Competition Rules

3. Practice Game - Simultaneous Exhibition

Week 2 (U-9)

4. Concept of Attack - Capture, Combat, Check the King

5. Concept of Defense - Protection, Getting out of Check

6. Practice - Check in 1, and Check in 2, Looking for protected & unprotected pieces, Identifying Hanging Pieces, 

Week 3

7. Practice - Looking for protected & unprotected pieces, Identifying Hanging Pieces,

8. Basic Principles of Openings

   1. Control of Center

   2. Development of Pieces - Minor First, followed by Major Pieces

   3. Avoid Multiple Moves with same Pieces

   4. Avoid Blunders and Risk

Week 4

9. Stages of Game

10. Recording the Game

11. Practice Puzzles

Week 5

12. Simple Opening Lines

    1. Italian Game (White)

    2. London System (White)

    3. Caro Kann Defense (Black)

    4. French Defense (Black)

Week 6

13. Board Coordinates and Colors

14. Blind Board Practice

15. Practice Puzzles

Week 7

16. Endgame Introduction

    1. Queen

    2. Rook

    3. Pawn (Opposition, Key Squares, Shouldering, Outflanking)

Chess Fundamentals Test and Review

17. Basic Theory - Introduction to Concepts like - Plan, Strategy, Advantage

18. Piece Mobilization

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    2. Bishop, & Combinations (Rook Bishop, Bishop Pawn, Bishop Knight)

    3. Other Combinations (Rook Knight, Knight Pawn)

19. Open Spaces & Lines

20. Outposts

21. Practice

Week 5

22. Middle Game Introduction

23. Tactical Motifs

    1. Pin

• Absolute Pin

• Relative Pin

23. 2. Fork

Week 6

23. 3. Discovered Attacks

• Discovered Double Attack

• Discovered Check

• Discovered Double Check

• Windmill

Week 7

23. 4. Skewer

    5. 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

1. Rating & Title Regulations

2. Types of Tournaments

3. Blind Chess Practice

Week 2

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6. Blind Chess Practice

Week 3 & 4

7. 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

8. End Game Tactics

9. Practice Games

Week 7 & 8

10. Strategy

11. Analysis of Classical Games - Botvinik VS Petrocian - 5th WC Game, etc

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13. Positional Play Assessment of Position

(Month 3 - Tactics & Calculations)

Week 9 & 10

14. Tactics

15. Calculations

16. 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