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Going from 0 - 100 rating

1. How do the pieces move
2. Important strategies to follow after knowing how the pieces  move
3. Algebraic Notation
4. Checkmate in 1 move


Going from 100 - 300 rating

1. Checkmate with King and Rook vs King 
2. Checkmate with King and Queen vs King 
3. Understand the 5 basic draws in Chess
4. Checkmate with King and Queen vs King and Bishop 
5. Checkmate with King and Queen vs King and Knight 

Going from 300 - 800 rating

Tactics
1. Forks
2. Pins 
3. Skewers 
4. Removing the defender
5. Discovery Attack 
6. Deflection
7. Checkmate combinations  
Daily Workout: Solve 10 Puzzles per Day 

Going from 800 - 1200 rating

Strategy
1. Opening Principles
2. Pawn Structure 
3. Weak Squares
4. Open and Closed Games
5. Effective trading  
Learn a Basic Opening ( less then 10 moves main lines) 

Going from 1200 - 1600 rating


Pawn Endgames
1. Opposition & Critical squares
2. Deep Freeze and the Fox and the Chicken Position
3. The Square of the Pawn
4. Outflanking
5. Mined squares (Landmines)

Piece vs Pawn
1.  Queen vs Lone Pawn on the 7th rank
2. Rook vs Lone Pawn

3. Bishop and Lone Pawn
4. Knight and Lone Pawn

Rook Endgames
1. Lucena Position 
2. Philador Position
3. Rook Behind a Passed Pawn
4. Rook and Pawn on the 7th Rank  - Key Positions
-Rook in front of the pawn
- King in front of the pawn
-Long distance checks defense (7th rank)

5. Rook vs Rook and Pawns - Tactical elements and nice ideas

Opening repertoire - Study the main lines of a Short Opening Repertoire with the response to the most common lines played only.

Going from 1600 - 1800 rating

Pawn Endgames
1. Two Connected Pawns vs 1 (basic)
2. Self-protecting Pawns
3. The Outside Passed Pawn
4. The Protected Passed Pawn


 The Middlegame
1. Imbalances 
2. Knights and Bishops in the Middlegame

3. The Rooks in the  Middlegame 
4. Weak Pawns & Weak Squares
 ​- The Isolated Pawn
- The Backward Pawn
- Doubled and Tripled Pawns
- What are weak squares ?
- How to create and take advantage of weak squares

-The minority attack
5. Dragging down the King


Rook vs 2 Pawns
1. Rook vs 2 connected passed pawns
2. Rook vs 2 separated pawns

Minors and pawns
1. Bishop vs 2 pawns

2. Knight endgames

Rook vs Minor
1. Rook vs Bishop
​2. Rook vs Knight


Rook Endgames 
1. Rook and Pawn on the 6th, 5th & 4th Rank vs Rook  - Key positions
Defending King in front of the pawn
- ​Philidor Defense
- Other Key positions
Defending King NOT in front of the pawn 
- Vancura Defense (Rook Pawn)
- Kling and Horowitz Defense
- Long distance checks Defense 
- Frontal checks defense
2. Rook Cutting off the King
3. The active Rook on the 7th Rank & the active King
4. Rook and 2 connected pawns vs Rook


Opening repertoire - Develop and study an opening repertoire that suites your character and style of play. 

Going from 1800 - 2000 rating

Pawn Endgames
1. Shouldering 
2. The floating Square
3. The Breakthrough 
4. Undermining
5. Stalemates

Endgame with minors
1. Opposite color Bishops
2. Two Bishops vs King
3. Bishop and 2 Pawns vs Bishop
4. Same Color Bishops

The Middlegame
1. Static & Dynamic weaknesses 
2. Passed Pawns
3. Space Advantage 
4. Psychology in the middlegame 

Rook Endgames
1. Defense with the King attacking the pawns from the rear 
2. Defense Ideas with the King on the Long-Side

 

Going from 2000 - 2200 rating

Pawn Endgames
1. Pawn Races and Counting
2. The Zigzag and Pendulum techniques 
3. King Races & Dual Purpose moves
4. Triangulation
5. Reserve Tempi
6. Principle of Two weaknesses 
7. Blocked rooked Pawns with an extra Pawn
8. Two Connected Pawns vs 1 (Advanced) - Connected Rook and Knight Pawn vs Rook Pawn (Bird's Color Principle) 

Endgame with minors
1. Rook vs Rook & Bishop
2. Bishop vs Knight with a Passed Pawn
3. Checkmate with Bishop and Knight

Rook Endgames
1. Rook + 2 Pawns vs Rook 
2. Rook and Pawn vs Rook with an extra Pawn

Queen vs Rook and Pawn

Queen and Pawn vs Rook and 2 Pawns

Queen Endgames


Checkmate with King and Queen vs King and the 3rd rank defense

Going from 2200 + rating


Recommendations ​

1. Have a Work-plan for Review of previous material
2. Have a Daily tactics workout 
3. Keep track of all the games and go over them with a GrandMaster
4. Read chess History
5. Read and watch videos played and explained by GrandMasters to see their way of thinking   
6. Memorize GrandMaster games
7. Learn Unorthodox Openings and the ideas behind them to catch GrandMasters by surprise  
 
GOOD LUCK!!!   - Coach B. 



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