
Learn the basics of chess, including the goal of checkmate, and the starting setup with pawns on the front rows, plus rooks, knights, queen, and king on the e-file.
Explore how each chess piece moves, from rooks and bishops to the queen, king, knight, and pawn promotion rules, including knight’s L shape and pawn forward moves.
Learn how to assign point values to chess pieces, with the queen worth 9, rook 5, bishop 3, knight 3, and pawn 1, while the king has no value.
Castling is a special move where the king and rook move together, with kingside or queenside options. Neither piece may have moved, and the king must not be in check.
Learn how en passant works as a special pawn capture, and understand legal versus illegal moves and the option of a draw through threefold repetition.
Learn how to write chess notation, identify files and ranks, and record moves like e4, e5, knight to c6, captures, checks, and castling using standard symbols.
Learn the London system for beginners, exploring white’s bishop f4 setup, black replies with d5, Nf6, or Nc6, and ideas like Bb5, e3, and knight e5.
Explore the French attack: white uses e4 and e5 to seize the center, black replies with e6 and d5, then c5, and plans c3 and knight f3.
Learn the dutch attack, a popular counter to queen side moves, by playing e6 and f5, developing knights to f6 and f3, bishop to b4, and building a kingside attack.
Master the Sicilian defense with three core variations: scavenger standard, Najdorf, and Paulsen. Learn how moves like e4, c5, d4 and knight exchanges control the center and counter attack.
The course gives the student the know-how on how to play Chess and it is for complete beginners. Rules in Chess, how the Chess pieces moves to tactics and opening theories are taught in a simple to understand manner. The value of each pieces are also told so as the student know how to prioritize the pieces. It also tells the students how to perform special moves in Chess like Castling, en passant etc.
It is a must see for those who want to learn Chess in a fun way and able to master it in the leisure of your location with the option to repeat whatever section that wanted to be repeated. A step-by step guidelines are provided and in simple language is enabling the students to learn at its own pace.
With experiences in chess coaching by producing some good Chess players to represent District levels in Perak, Malaysia, Joshua Tan will be able to guide you to learn Chess at the shortest time possible effectively and efficiently. The course is designed for complete beginner, and you do not need any prior knowledge in playing Chess.
The student can ask any question and the instructor will be there to guide the students with no extra charges. In other words, the students will be attended to ASAP with personal attention given to ensure the student understand the course. It will ensure the students will be given added- value service. The student is encouraged to ask any questions irrespective of frequency and the instructor will try its best to address any enquiries to ensure satisfaction is met.