Chess is Cool in Chess Camp
Yesterday I had a chance to enjoy the 4th of July parade and the fireworks. Although it was very hot in Miami I spent a wonderful time with my family.
On Friday, July 3rd, the second session of my Chess is Cool Camp finished.
Here is what we studied with the kids in these two weeks:
CHESS MATERIAL STUDIED IN THE CHESS IS COOL SUMMER CAMP AT THE WORLD CHESS HALL OF FAME WITH THE WOMEN’S WORLD CHESS CHAMPION ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK:
1. Chess Notation
2. How to win a chess game
3. Checkmating the lonely king with a queen, with two rooks, with a rook.
4. How to make a draw: a- stalemate; b- insufficient checkmating material; c- –50 moves rule; d- threefold repetition
5. Basic opening principles
6. Basic middle game principles
7. Basic endgame principles
8. 4 moves checkmate (also known as the scholar’s mate) and how not to be checkmated in 4 moves.
9. Protecting the weakest link of the starting position: – the squares f2 and f7.
10. Pawns are the soul of chess. What you need to know about pawns: en-passant, pawn promotion, pawns game.
11. Chess tactics: double-attack and forks, pins and skewers, discovered checks and attacks.
12. Castling
13. Free stuff
14. Batteries in chess
15. Back-rank mates
That's only the main topics we studied, we also went over many useful instructional chess games of great chess players, played many tournaments, solved hundreds of useful chess problems and had fun studying and playing chess.
From July 6 to July 10 I will have my last chess camp session and then my family and I are planning to go for a vacation trip to the Disney World in Orlando!!!!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
On Friday, July 3rd, the second session of my Chess is Cool Camp finished.
Here is what we studied with the kids in these two weeks:
CHESS MATERIAL STUDIED IN THE CHESS IS COOL SUMMER CAMP AT THE WORLD CHESS HALL OF FAME WITH THE WOMEN’S WORLD CHESS CHAMPION ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK:
1. Chess Notation
2. How to win a chess game
3. Checkmating the lonely king with a queen, with two rooks, with a rook.
4. How to make a draw: a- stalemate; b- insufficient checkmating material; c- –50 moves rule; d- threefold repetition
5. Basic opening principles
6. Basic middle game principles
7. Basic endgame principles
8. 4 moves checkmate (also known as the scholar’s mate) and how not to be checkmated in 4 moves.
9. Protecting the weakest link of the starting position: – the squares f2 and f7.
10. Pawns are the soul of chess. What you need to know about pawns: en-passant, pawn promotion, pawns game.
11. Chess tactics: double-attack and forks, pins and skewers, discovered checks and attacks.
12. Castling
13. Free stuff
14. Batteries in chess
15. Back-rank mates
That's only the main topics we studied, we also went over many useful instructional chess games of great chess players, played many tournaments, solved hundreds of useful chess problems and had fun studying and playing chess.
From July 6 to July 10 I will have my last chess camp session and then my family and I are planning to go for a vacation trip to the Disney World in Orlando!!!!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: Camp, Chess is Cool
posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk @ 10:57 PM
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