Course Outline | Genesis Chess Academy

Beginner Level 1

Movement, captures, check & checkmate fundamentals

Level 1

1

Stage 1: Learning the Chess Basics

Piece Movement & Piece Value

Capturing Pieces & Winning Material

Understanding Check, Escaping Check and Checkmate

2

Stage 2: Attacking, Defending & Trading

Assisted Checkmates & Hanging Pieces

Equal, Good & Bad Trades

Attacking and Protecting Pieces

3

Stage 3: Castling & Piece Protection

Short and Long Castling

Illegal Castling Situations

Counting Attackers to Win Material

Beginner Level 2

Special rules, chess tactics & opening principles

Level 2

1

Stage 1: Special Rules & Simple Endgames

En Passant and Pawn Promotion Ideas

Ladders Mate

Stalemate Basic and Advanced Examples

2

Stage 2: Mastering Chess Tactics

Forks, Pins and Skewers

Using Pins to Win Material

Difference between Pins and Skewers

3

Stage 3: Understanding Openings & Game Flow

Phases of the Game

Opening Principles

Material Evaluation

Beginner Level 3

Checkmates, endgames, king safety & threat defence

Level 3

1

Stage 1: Essential Checkmates & Pawn Endgames

Pieces that can Checkmate and that can't

King and Queen Checkmate Technique

Basic One Pawn Endgames

2

Stage 2: Advanced Endgames & King Safety

Advanced One Pawn Endgames

Advanced Opening Ideas

King Safety Principles

3

Stage 3: Defending Against Threats

Protecting the King from Attacks

Dealing with Scholar's Mate

Preventing Early Checkmate Traps

Intermediate Level 1

Checkmating attacks, tactical awareness, positional play & endgames

Intermediate

1

Stage 1: Checkmating Attacks & Trapped Pieces

Advanced Checkmate Patterns

Trapping and Winning Enemy Pieces

Desperado Tactics

2

Stage 2: Reading Opponent Ideas & Tactical Awareness

Understanding the Purpose Behind Opponent Moves

Recognizing Tactical Threats and Motifs

Improving Calculation

3

Stage 3: Positional Understanding & Planning

Positional Motifs and Piece Improvement

Creating and Executing Chess Plans

Evaluating Positions and Strategic Advantages

4

Stage 4: Trading Decisions & Pawn Endgames

Knowing When to Trade Pieces

Understanding the Bishop Pair Advantage

Essential Thematical Pawn Endgames

Intermediate Level 2

Positional play, middlegame mastery, practical endgames & openings

Intermediate

1

Stage 1: Positional Foundations

Open Files and File Domination

Space Advantage

Outposts & Weak Squares

2

Stage 2: Middlegame Mastery

Calculation Training

Knight vs Bishop

Defensive Play

3

Stage 3: Practical Play and Endgame

Pawn Structures

Advance Pawn Endgames

Rook Endgames

4

Stage 4: Opening Repertoire

Responses Against e4

D4 d5 as Black

London System

Advanced Level 1

Advanced piece play, strategic planning, calculation & endgame mastery

Advanced

1

Stage 1: Advanced Piece Play

Improving Pieces

Piece Coordination

Piece Activity & Material

2

Stage 2: Strategic Planning

Prophylaxis

Initiative

Pawn Structures

3

Stage 3: Advanced Calculation

Candidate Move Selection

Critical Position Identification

Advanced Tactical Motifs

4

Stage 4: Advanced Middlegame Strategy

Complex Pawn Structures

Positional Pawn Attacks

Opposite-Side Castling Attacks

5

Stage 5: Advanced Endgames

Rook Endgames

Queen Endgames

Endgame Imbalances

6

Stage 6: Advanced Opening Repertoire

Italian Game as Black

Ruy Lopez as Black

1.d4 d5 & London System

Advanced Level 2

Elite calculation, combinations, positional mastery & complete opening repertoire

Advanced

1

Stage 1: Advanced Tactical Calculation

Forcing Moves & Tactical Triggers

Tactical Evaluation

Deep Calculation

2

Stage 2: Advanced Tactical Combinations

Mating Attacks & King Hunts

Tactical Patterns & Combinations

Calculation Techniques

3

Stage 3: Advanced Positional Play

Creating & Exploiting Weaknesses

Dynamic & Static Positions

Positional Sacrifices

4

Stage 4: Advanced Strategic Play

Converting Small Advantages

Pawn Promotion & Passed Pawns

Bishop Pair & Color Complexes

5

Stage 5: Advanced Opening Repertoire

Black Repertoire

White Repertoire

6

Stage 6: Advanced Endgame Mastery

Knight Endgames

Bishop Endgames

Drawing Techniques in Endgames

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