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Cool Chess History 2: The Ruy Lopez and the King's Gambit Openings--Ages 13-18
Julie Blasingame
Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(562)
The students will learn about the chess master, Ruy Lopez and his use of the opening named after him and the King's Gambit Opening.
Class experience
In this lesson, the students will learn about the Ruy Lopez Chess Opening. They will learn about the Spanish Chess player, Ruy Lopez de Segura, who had this opening named after him. He published his own chess book in 1561. In his book, Lopez proposed that the Touch Move Rule be standard in all games and discussed the 50 Move Rule. By studying and practicing different chess openings, the students will gain more experience in how to defeat their opponents. At the end of the lesson, the...
The students will become stronger chess players as they practice different openings on the board and by playing chess games on-line.
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:
In the last part of class, the students will be using the lichess.org website to play chess games against each other. The teacher will give a username and password to each student in order to login to the website by posting it privately in their Chat Box.
The student will be using the lichess.org website to practice various checkmates and to play games against other students or the teacher. This is a FREE site for students to access and to improve their chess skills. ChessKid.com is also a great resource for students to access daily Chess Puzzles, to play chess against the computer, or against other students around the world. There are videos on this site that the students can watch, done by Grand Masters, who can really help the student 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 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 13-18
1-4 learners per class
This class is no longer offered
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