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Cool Chess! Beginner 1 Lesson 4--The Staircase Checkmate!--Ages 13-18
Julie Blasingame
Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(562)
The students will learn how to checkmate with the Staircase Checkmate (using two rooks)
Class experience
The students will learn how to do the Staircase checkmate using the two rooks on the chessboard. Their two rooks will work together to control the board by attacking the ranks or files, force the King to the edge of the board, and then to checkmate. The students will learn that there is a pattern to checkmating the King with the two rooks. The teacher will set up a 2-Rook puzzle and the students will call out the moves to master this checkmate. Towards the last half of the class, the...
The students will become stronger chess players as they learn how to master the Staircase Checkmate by using the two Rooks and by playing chess games on-line.
Homework Offered
Students will receive chess puzzle homework sheets in a PDF format to be printed out. The chess puzzle homework sheets will be discussed in class to make sure all students understand what to do.0 - 1 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
A learner is assessed by understanding the answers on each chess puzzle assignment and knowing how to checkmate to win their games. When a student practices chess at home, with others, or on-line, their skills will increase--this will reflect in their knowledge of the game.Grades Offered
2 files available upon enrollmentStudents should have a pencil in class and the chess puzzles printed out, which will be attached in a PDF form in the Classroom.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
If students do not already have a username on lichess.org, a username will be assigned to the students by the teacher.
Lichess.org and ChessKid.com are great, safe resources to access daily Chess Puzzles, to play chess against the computer, or against other chess players around the world. There are videos on the ChessKid.com site that the students can watch, done by Grand Masters, who can really help the students achieve a higher skill level in chess.
Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(562)
I am a retired public school teacher of 26 years and currently am a Supervisor of Academic Programming for the Central New York Chess organization on Outschool...
Group Class
$14
per classMeets once
60 min
Completed by 5 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
1-4 learners per class
