Learn To Play Winning Chess!

Nine videos guaranteed to transform you from a complete beginner to a tactically aware chess player.
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Learn To Play Winning Chess!
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Jul 2014
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It seems like you've provided an overview of the content covered in a chess training course, which includes various videos and accompanying materials such as quizzes, answer sheets, and key points summaries. Here's a brief recap of each video's content based on your outline:

  1. The Minor Pieces: This video covers the roles of bishops and knights, discussing their unique movements and powers, such as controlling squares of a specific color and accessing the center. It also introduces the concept of "smothered mate," a checkmate delivered with all possible escape squares for the king blocked.

  2. The Power of the Pawns: This video dispels the myth that pawns are weak and highlights their importance in the opening, their mobility within pawn structures, the concept of pawn promotion, and the tactical concept of "en passant." It also includes a quiz to test your understanding.

  3. Protecting Your King: This video explains the purpose of castling, the conditions under which it can be performed (or not), and the relative value of different pieces on the board. It also covers various types of checkmate and provides a quiz to assess your knowledge.

  4. Delivering Checkmate!: This video demonstrates different scenarios in which checkmate can occur, including "pawn storm" mates where pawns play a crucial role, back rank mate (rook lifting the king), and stalemate—a position where the king is not in check but has no legal moves available.

  5. How To Play The Opening: This video outlines the three primary goals of the opening phase: controlling the center, developing your pieces, and ensuring the safety of your king. It uses the Italian Opening as an example and includes a quiz to reinforce the concepts learned.

  6. Win Your Games Using These Tactical Themes: This video illustrates various tactical themes such as forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, discovered checks, and double checks, with examples from actual games. It also includes a quiz to test your recognition of these patterns.

  7. Course Review: This final video serves as a review of all the topics covered in the course, offering an opportunity for consolidation and reflection on what has been learned. It provides recommendations for future study and improvement in chess.

The course materials appear to be comprehensive and designed to enhance understanding and improve performance at various levels of chess play. The "Has it Stuck?" quiz seems to be a practical exercise to apply the knowledge gained from each video, while the answer sheets and key points summaries serve as tools for self-assessment and learning reinforcement.

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