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Chess in School

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Name
Number of tasks
Completion rate

Level 1 (School 0—200 ELO)

Chess: Year 1

264
0%
1. Introduction
2. The chessboard
3. Chess notation
4. Pieces
5. The initial position
6. The pawn
7. The rook
8. The bishop
9. The queen
10. The knight

Level 2 (School 200—600 ELO)

Chess: Year 1

395
0%
1. Chess pieces. Revision
2. The value of pieces
3. Choosing a piece to capture
4. The king
5. Check
6. Discovered check and double check
7. Checkmate
8. Mate in one
9. Castling
10. Mate in one - more complicated cases
11. Draw. Stalemate, perpetual check
12. The lawn mower mate
13. Mate in two
14. Mate with king and queen
15. Double attack
16. Double attack, check to win a piece
17. Revision
18. Revision

Level 3 (School 600—700 ELO)

Chess: Year 2

288
0%
1. Revision of the first year
2. Smothered mate
3. Double check. Mate in two using a double check
4. Scholar's mate
5. Dangerous diagonal
6. Lead in development
7. Attacking the King in the center
8. Attacking the castled king
9. Revision

Level 4 (School 700—800 ELO)

Chess: Year 2

124
0%
1. Mate with queen sacrifice
2. Mate in two with rook, bishop or knight sacrifice
3. Double attack by pawn, bishop, rook
4. Double attack by queen
5. Double attack by knight - fork
6. Skewer
7. Revision

Level 5 (School 800—900 ELO)

Chess: Year 2

297
0%
1. The pin
2. Protection from pins
3. Decoy
4. Deflection
5. Overloading
6. Clearance
7. Line mate
8. Winning poorly positioned pieces. Bishops and knights
9. Winning poorly positioned pieces. Queens and rooks
10. Mate with king and rook
11. Bare king
12. Revision
13. Revision

Level 6 (School 900—1000 ELO)

Chess: Year 3

150
0%
1. Revision of the second year
2. Breakthrough
3. Two bishops
4. Opening - weak f7 and f2 squares
5. Opening - lead in development
6. Discovered attack
7. Intermediate move
8. Undermining
9. Interference
10. Revision

Level 7 (School 1000—1100 ELO)

Chess: Year 3

130
0%
1. Passed pawns
2. Pawn breakthrough
3. Queening
4. Rule of the square
5. Pushing and blocking with the king
6. Making use of extra pawns. Outside passed pawn
7. Active king
8. Initiating the pawn endgame
9. Perpetual check combinations
10. Stalemate combinations
11. Revision

Level 8 (School 1100—1200 ELO)

Chess: Year 3

92
0%
1. Trapped pieces
2. Trapped queen
3. Trapped king
4. King's gambit
5. Danish gambit
6. Central game
7. Revision
8. Revision