Cool Chess Multi-Day 6 Week Course 5--Ages 7-9
In this six week course, the student will learn how to notate their chess games and learn different kinds of checkmates.
Julie Blasingame
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(564)
What's included
6 live meetings
6 in-class hoursClass Experience
In the first week, the student will learn how to read and write Chess Notation. They will write down the moves of a 7 move checkmate game. In week two, they will learn about the Chess Piece Value, Exchanges, the Scholar's Mate and the Fool's Mate. They will learn about the f2 and f7 squares as the Danger Squares. ln week three, the student will learn about the Queen, Knight, and Bishop Attacks. They will learn how to further utilize their knowledge of the Danger Squares in this lesson. In week four, they will learn about the Back Rank and Smothered Checkmates. The student will learn how to checkmate their opponent's King when he is trapped on their Back Rank behind his pawns. They also learn how to use a Knight to checkmate their opponent's King when he is surrounded by his own pieces. In week five, the student will learn that the Arabian Checkmate is one of the oldest checkmates. They will also learn about the Hallway Checkmate. In week six, the student will learn about the Easy and Hard Ladder Checkmates.
Learning Goals
The student's chess skills will continue to improve with more knowledge about the game, learning the rules and learning more checkmates. They will strengthen their game even more by playing against other students or the teacher on-line via the lichess.org website.
Other Details
Supply List
Students should have a pencil with an eraser in class and a folder to keep all their chess curriculum and homework puzzles together.
20 files available upon enrollment
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
The students will be using the lichess.org website to practice various checkmates and to play games against each other or the teacher. This is a FREE site for students to access 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.
Joined July, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Texas Teaching Certificate in Music/Theater/Arts
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Abilene Christian University
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 (https://outschool.com/teachers/CENTRAL-NY-CHESS-INC?usid=wUq7nkLS&signup=true&authTrigger=follow_teacher&follow=true&utm_campaign=share_leader_link). I have taught children and adults in Beginning and Intermediate 1 Chess classes for 23 years in after school programs, summer Chess Camps, online in my Cool Chess classes and now for Central New York Chess. I love to see how Chess helps the brain to think, to make predictions, to sequence, see patterns, etc. I love to see when a student learns how to checkmate and improves upon their game! I teach One Time Cool Chess classes and Private and Multi-Day Classes with Central New York Chess. I enjoy Art, Chess, Scrapbooking, and Travel! I hope to see you in my chess classes soon!Reviews
Live Group Class
$30
weekly1x per week, 6 weeks
60 min
Completed by 2 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-9
1-4 learners per class
