Weekly Chess Class Schedule
Join the Academy here, and feel free to ask questions here.
Students typically do one semi-private lesson each week (read about the levels below), plus as many tournaments, bonus lessons, and events as they want. Take a look at the Bonus Activities Calendar here.
Our small group classes are divided into nine different levels:
The Academy:
- Pawns: for beginners!
- Knights: for students that know how to play but not much strategy yet.
- Bishops: for students that know simple checkmates like back rank checkmates and how to checkmate with two rooks. They should also know the piece values and how to make a good trade.
- Rooks: Students should know how to checkmate with only their king and queen, they should understand the opening principles, and know how to use tactics like pins and forks.
- Queens: Students should know how to use all sorts of tactics like skewers, discoveries, and removing the guard tactics. They should know how to checkmate with only their king and rook, know some basic openings, and know how to defend against the scholars mate. Students should also have a ChessKid rating over 1100.
- Kings1: Students should have a ChessKid rating between 1300 and 1550 or a USCF rating over 700.
- Kings2: Students should have a ChessKid rating over 1550 or a USCF rating over 1000.
The Elite Academy:
- The Elite Academy level 1: Students should have a USCF rating over 1400. If they don't have a tournament rating then we'll consider kids with online ratings over 2000.
- The Elite Academy level 2: For students with USCF ratings 1800-2300
