This is for beginners who have been playing chess for around a year now and want to start with the very basics of chess strategy. The focus is on building the base of the player here and having the right process of thinking. The course duration will be for around 2-3 months with 2 classes during the weekends on Sat and Sunday. We will also analyze games between the students for better understanding of the game.

Some of the basic themes that will be covered:

1. Mating Combinations
2. General Endgame Principles
3. Back Rank
4. General Opening Principles
5. The double Attack
6. Good and Bad Bishops
7. Candidate Moves
8. The Centre
9. The Pin and discovered Attack
10. Zugzwang
11. Deflection
12. The Greek Gift Sacrifice
13. Evaluating a position
14. Planning in Chess
15. Destroying the castled Position
16. Exchanging
17. Priorities while calculating Variations
18. Pawn Endings Part 1
19. Decoying
20. Time in the Opening
21. Improving the Position of your Pieces
22. Pawn Endings Part 2
23. The Final Test