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Lifestyle Gaming Chess

Chess for total beginners

From learning the moves, to checkmating, to tactics and strategy
Rating: 4.3 out of 54.3 (65 ratings)
1,727 students
Created by Katie Kormanik
Last updated 1/2021
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Make legal moves
  • Annotate entire games
  • Recognize check and checkmate
  • Recognize tactics such as forking, skewering, and pinning
  • Checkmate in winning endgames
  • Employ good opening, midgame, and endgame strategies
  • Advance a pawn to the back rank with king and pawn against king
  • Gain the know-how and resources to continue advancing your chess skills
  • Hear perspectives on chess from GMs and IMs
  • Calculate several moves ahead
  • Play and enjoy the game of chess!

Requirements

  • A willingness to sit and think!

Description

Hi there! I'm Katie, and I've been playing chess since I was 4. I started competing in tournaments when I was 7, and at one point I was one of the top 100 women in the US. I haven't actively played since 2011, at which point my rating was 1850, but my love of chess still lingers and I think everyone should at least know how to play. This course goes beyond simply teaching how the pieces move. You'll build the foundation for continuing your chess career, if you so choose.

This course breaks down the game step-by-step, from teaching you the rules (how pieces move) to basic strategy (where to move your pieces) to how to improve (with practice positions and resources for learning more). If you watch all the videos and complete all the exercises, you’ll not only be able to play a game (the short-term goal); you’ll be able to continue learning and playing chess on your own. In a few weeks, you’ll probably be able to beat just about anyone off the street!

Besides instructional videos and exercises, this course also has interviews with the following amazing professional women chess players:
• WGM Jennifer Shahade
• WIM Karina Vazirova
...with more coming soon!

A one-time purchase will give you lifetime access to all the new content in the course. Hope you enjoy!

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn how to play chess
  • Anyone who wants to finally beat their grandpa
  • Anyone who travels and wants to find a community wherever they go

Course content

6 sections • 51 lectures • 1h 29m total length

  • Preview02:41
  • Interview with WIM Karina Vazirova: Why learn chess?
    02:34
  • Preview01:25
  • Write the name of the square
    10 questions
  • Chess pieces
    00:35
  • Which piece is it?
    6 questions
  • Notating moves
    03:36
  • Notate the move (white side)
    6 questions
  • Notate the move (black side)
    6 questions
  • Notating a game
    01:53
  • Download notation sheets
    00:03

  • Preview01:08
  • Knight moves
    1 question
  • Bishop
    00:48
  • Bishop moves
    1 question
  • Rook
    00:41
  • Rook moves
    1 question
  • Queen
    00:33
  • Queen moves
    1 question
  • Interview with WGM Jennifer Shahade: Why is the queen the most powerful piece?
    01:14
  • King
    01:02
  • King moves
    1 question
  • Pawn
    02:03
  • Pawn moves
    2 questions
  • Preview03:58
  • Find check
    6 questions
  • Calculate two moves ahead
    2 questions
  • Play a game vs. the computer!
    00:16

  • Preview04:13
  • Is it checkmate?
    9 questions
  • Find checkmate (mate-in-one)
    01:04
  • Find checkmate (mate-in-two)
    1 question
  • Checkmate with a queen and a rook
    02:18
  • Practice checkmating with a queen and a rook
    00:22
  • Checkmate with two rooks
    01:32
  • Practice checkmating with two rooks
    00:21
  • Checkmate with a king and a queen
    03:05
  • Practice checkmating with a king and a queen
    00:22
  • Checkmate with a king and a rook
    06:25
  • Practice checkmating with a king and a rook
    00:22
  • Checkmate with a king and pawn
    04:49
  • Practice checkmating with a king and pawn
    00:21
  • Interview with WIM Karina Vazirova: How did you get good at chess?
    00:48

  • Preview02:13
  • White opening: e4
    04:17
  • Try e4
    00:03
  • White opening: d4
    05:46
  • Try d4
    00:03
  • Black opening: e4 e5
    01:58
  • Try e4 e5
    00:03
  • Black opening: e4 c5
    04:40
  • Try e4 c5
    00:03
  • Black opening: d4 d5
    03:55
  • Try d4 d5
    00:03
  • Play a real game!
    00:22

  • Interview with WGM Jennifer Shahade: How strategy & tactics relate to real life
    00:50
  • Tactics
    02:13
  • Find the tactic
    3 questions
  • Practice tactics
    00:05
  • Strategy
    06:05
  • Practice the endgames
    00:55
  • Improve your tactics and strategy
    00:08

  • Using chess engines for analysis
    02:48
  • Interview with WIM Karina Vazirova: How can I get better at chess?
    01:14
  • Conclusion
    00:48
  • Resources and links
    00:29

Instructor

Katie Kormanik
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Katie Kormanik
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 262 Reviews
  • 6,375 Students
  • 5 Courses

Hi! I love creating online courses and instructional materials on topics I love. So far, I've written a statistics textbook (Street-Smart Stats: A Friendly Introduction to Statistical Research Methods) and created an introductory chess course, a penmanship course, and an algebra course that focuses on topics that are essential in understanding calculus. 

To actually pay the bills, I run an instructional design consulting firm, TURN THE WHEEL, that helps organizations create digital learning experiences for their clients, customers, and workforce. These courses have much larger budgets than the ones I make by myself. For one thing, we do professional video shoots rather than filming on my iPhone, as I've done for my own personal courses. 

I love both creating my own courses--my side hobby--and working with big organizations. I love having the creative control to design curricula on topics I'm passionate about, and I love working with people to design courses that meet their needs (and learning a lot from the subject-matter experts with whom I collaborate). 

Another side project is creating a mobile learning platform that anyone can use to both create and take courses directly from their phone. I'm hoping this will empower people all over the world who don't have computers to create learning materials that will benefit their local communities and beyond.

I'm really passionate about online learning, and am especially excited to see how VR and AR revolutionize the way we learn. 

Thanks for reading!

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