4 Level Training Program - Curriculum
Level 1: Novice 1000 - 1400
- Basic opening principles
- Open games
- Semi-open games
- Closed games
- Basic pawn endgames
- Piece vs. pawn
- Basic Rook endgames
- Same-collored Bishop endgames (basic)
- Endgames without pawns
- Realization of advantage (basic)
- Defence (stalemate, wrong Bishop)
- Technique of exchanges (basic)
- Diagonals for Bishop
- Outpost for Kngiht
- Open file
- Semi-open file
- Attack the King - hot spots
- Attack the King in the center
- Typical mating motifs
- Attack the King - opposite side castling
- Tactical elements
- Chess History
- Center (basic)
- Exploiting Weaknesses (pawn, square)
- Value of pieces
Level 2: Intermediate 1401 - 1700
- Opposite-colored Bishop endgames (basic)
- Bishop vs. Knight endgames
- Knight vs. Bishop endgames
- Rook endgames - techniques
- Advanced pawn endgames
- Technique of exchanges 2
- Basic prophylactics
- Methods of Defense
- Calculation technique - middle game
- Calculation technique - endgame
- Special tactics (backward tactics, removing the defender)
- Chess fantasy (studies and problems)
- Makogonov's rule
- Realization 2 (Capablanca)
- Structures with Ne5
- Triangle structure
- Center - Change of the center
- Carslbad structure
- Hanging pawns
- Isolated pawn
- Bishop pair
- Exploiting pawn Majority
- The power of the Blockade
- Dynamical pawn sacrifice (Alekhine, Kasparov)
- The rule of 2nd weakness
- Strong piece in the center
- How to use classics
- Exchange sacrifice on typical squares
- Plan, how to choose the move
Level 3: Advanced 1701 - 2000
- Dark and light color strategy
- Fischer - How to play with the light-colored Bishop
- Nimzowitch - Strategy against double pawns
- Anand - Strategy and attack
- Polgar - Women in chess
- Keres & Bronstein - Open games
- Hedgehog structure
- Attack with the Rook`s pawn
- Alekhine - How to develop the initiative
- Capablanca - Simple plans
- Kasparov - Dynamics
- Spassky - How to play universal chess
- Botvinnink - Typical structures
- Positional pawn sacrificice 1 (Bronstein, Romanisin)
- Improve the pieces
- Attack with the Knight`s pawn
- Positional initiative on the Queenside
- Kramnik - Move by move strategy
- Advanced Rook endgames (frontal attack, vancura, activization)
- Opposite - colored Bishop endgames (advanced)
- Passed pawn out of the opening
- Exploiting space advantage
- Positional exchange sacrifice
- Attack with Opposite - colored Bishops
- Defence 3 (theoretical endgames, fortress and liquidation)
- Queen endgames
- Repertoire based on structure (ed5 in Sicilian)
Level 4: Master's Path 2001 and more
- Dorfman's Method
- Tall - 2 Pieces vs. Rook
- Reti - Hypermodernism
- Geller & Stein - How to Defeat Champions
- From Opening to Endgame
- Champions Against KID
- KID by Champions
- Velimirovic and Typical Sicilian Sacrifices
- Mistake of greats - Middlegame
- Mistake of greats - Endgame
- How To Place Rooks On The Back Rank
- Carlsen - Realization of Small Advantage
- Kaprov - Endgame Technique and Strategy
- Modern Positional Pawn Sacrifice
- Centralization
- Complicated Plans
- Crytical Moment
- Modern Positional Gambits
- Rubinstein's Structure (e4, f3, g3)
- Queen vs. Pieces
- Queen vs. Rook Endgame
- World Champion Strategy Against Ruy Lopez
- Rook and Bishop vs. Rook
- Rook Endgames 4 vs. 3
- Prophylactic according to Dvoretsky
- Ruy Lopez by Champions
- Typical Structure e6, c6