Lessons & Topics
NOTE: Lessons are for Monday sessions only from 6:30 - 7:00pm and 8:00 - 8:30pm
| Year | Month | Topics |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | January | Checks |
| Captures | ||
| Attacks | ||
| Checkmate | ||
| Stalemate | ||
| Annotation/Etiquette | ||
| Development | ||
| February | The Center | |
| Scholar’s Mate | ||
| Castling | ||
| Promotion/Underpromotion | ||
| En Passant | ||
| Ranks/Files | ||
| March | Material | |
| Active/Passive | ||
| Resignation | ||
| Pawn/Pawn Breaks | ||
| Knight | ||
| Bishop/Bishop Pair | ||
| April | Rook | |
| Queen | ||
| King | ||
| Back Rank | ||
| Luft | ||
| Prophylaxis | ||
| King Safety | ||
| Initiative | ||
| May | Majority/Minority | |
| Space | ||
| Drawing Methods | ||
| Perpetual/Repetition | ||
| Swindling | ||
| Counterplay | ||
| Calculation/Combinations | ||
| June | Candidate Moves | |
| Analysis | ||
| Tempo/Triangulation | ||
| Opposition | ||
| Breakthrough/Passed Pawns | ||
| Isolated Pawns/Pawn Islands | ||
| Doubled Pawns | ||
| July | Compensation | |
| Gambits/Counter Gambits | ||
| Sacrifices | ||
| Exchange Sacrifice | ||
| Desperado | ||
| Consolidation | ||
| Simplification | ||
| Domination | ||
| August | Zugzwang | |
| Double Attack/Check | ||
| Forks | ||
| Discovered Attacks | ||
| Zwischenzug | ||
| Pins/Skewers/X-rays | ||
| September | Battery | |
| Principle of 2 Weaknesses | ||
| Queenless Middlegames | ||
| Blockade/Outpost | ||
| Fianchetto | ||
| Sharp/Solid | ||
| Sicilian Defence | ||
| French/Caro | ||
| October | Romantic Era Chess: Opera Game | |
| Romantic Era Chess: Princeton Game | ||
| Modern Miniatures | ||
| Hypermodernism | ||
| Reversed Systems | ||
| Accelerated Systems | ||
| November | Neo Systems | |
| Puzzle Paradise | ||
| Women In Chess | ||
| Scotch Game | ||
| Italian Game | ||
| Spanish Game | ||
| London System | ||
| 2025 | January | Queen’s Gambit |
| King’s Indian Defence | ||
| English Fianchetto | ||
| King’s Indian Attack |