Chess is a game that helps develop critical and logical thinking skills, spatial skills, and IQ. It also improves memory, concentration, and problem-solving skills.

This class will teach students the basics of chess, including how to set up the board, move the pieces, and win the game. Topics covered will include:

• Understanding the chess board
• Piece introduction and setup
• King, Rook, Bishop, Queen, and Knight movements
• Pawn movement and capturing puzzles
• Protection, combat, and piece values
• Check, getting out of check, and checkmate
• Checkmate in 1 move puzzles and castling
• En passant and castling puzzles, pawn promotion
• Opening principles
• Legal and illegal moves, draw by threefold repetition, stalemate, and how to offer and decline a draw
• Game play analysis, checkmate puzzles, and level 2 strategies
• Castling rules, creating mate in one move, taking a piece that is attacked twice, and understanding favorable exchange
• Strategies on draw, mate, and stalemate
• Winning tactics
• Notation

Students will learn through digital chess games.