Lessons & Topics
NOTE: Lessons are for Monday and Friday sessions only from 6:45 - 7:15pm and 8:00 - 8:30pm.
In the future, lectured lessons will be revised with comments. For now only a few are annotated.
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Monday and Friday
| year | topics |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Checks |
| Captures | |
| Attacks | |
| Checkmate | |
| Stalemate | |
| Notation/Etiquette | |
| Development | |
| The Center | |
| Defence | |
| En Passant | |
| Ranks Files & Open Diagonals | |
| Material | |
| Activity | |
| Resignation | |
| The Pawn | |
| The Knight | |
| The Bishop | |
| The Rook | |
| The Queen | |
| The King | |
| Prophylaxis | |
| Initiative | |
| Space | |
| Swindling | |
| Counterplay | |
| Candidate Moves | |
| Analysis | |
| Tempo & Triangulation | |
| Opposition | |
| Loose Pawns | |
| Compensation | |
| Sacrificing | |
| Desperado | |
| Simplification | |
| Consolidation | |
| Domination | |
| Zugzwang | |
| Discovered Attacks | |
| Zwischenzug | |
| Principle of 2 Weaknesses | |
| Blockade/Outpost | |
| Fianchetto | |
| Sharp/Solid | |
| Sicilian Defence | |
| French | |
| Caro | |
| Petrov | |
| Oldies but Goodies | |
| Modern Miniatures | |
| Hypermodernism | |
| Reversed Systems | |
| Accelerated Systems | |
| Neo Systems | |
| Canadian Talent | |
| Chess Role Models |
Wednesday
| Year | topics |
|---|---|
| 2025 | OTB Blitz Practice |
| Building your Repitoire | |
| Endgame Gauntlet | |
| Novel Maneuvers |