The Stage 1 academy program is designed for players between 300 and 600 rating points.
By the end of the "Stage 1" program you should expect to have learned:
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Openings & Middle-Game
Understand and implement typical middle-game plans and the key strategies for both White and Black in the following openings:
- Italian Game
- Two Knights Defence
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Tactical Motifs
Understand the following tactical motifs with advanced examples and use them in their own games to win pieces and checkmate their opponent:
- Double Attack
- Knight Fork
- Decoy
- Deflection
- Discovered Attack
- Discovered Check
- Double Check
- Pin
- Skewer
- Clearance
- Overloading
- Back Rank
- Queen Sacrifice
- King Hunt
- Destroying the Defences
- Mate in the endgame
- Lethal Long Diagonal
- Pawn Promotion mates
- Deadly Doubled Rooks
- The Zwischenzug
- Stalemates
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Endgames
Have a thorough practical understanding of King and Pawn endings, the basis of all chess endings:
- Pawn Breakthrough
- Distant Opposition
- Triangulation
- Reserve Tempi
- Queen Ending Switch
- Pawn endgame studies
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Chess Heroes
Learn about the greatest players in Chess History:
- Peter Svidler
- Louis Paulsen
- Adolf Anderssen
- Frank Marshall
- Artur Yusupov
- Alexander Alekhine
- Alexei Shirov
- Anatoli Karpov
- Vasily Smyslov
- Boris Spassky
- Xie Jun
- Gary Kasparov
- Teimour Radjabov
- Akiba Rubinstein
- Emanuel Lasker
- Richard Reti
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
- Alexander Grischuk
- Bobby Fischer
- Paul Morphy
- Efim Geller
- Mihail Tal
- Mikhail Chigorin
- Vassily Smyslov
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