The Complete Guide to Chess for Beginners (Rated 0 to 1500)

Learn Chess Mastery: From Zero to Hero: Master Rules, Openings, Strategy, Tactics, and Endgames Comprehensive Course

Created by: Tryfon Gavriel
FIDE Chess Candidate Master

What Will I Learn?

• Be able to appreciate the fundamentals of chess - opening, middlegame, endgame and within those the most common and important ideas
• Be able to get a complete overview of the key fundamentals of chess in terms of the Opening, Middlegame and Endgame phases of the game
• Be able to know basic opening traps such as the Fool's mate, Scholar's mate and many others
• Be able to know basic endgame mating patterns such as two rooks vs King, Rook vs King, Queen vs King
• Be able to know basic middlegame mating patterns such as back row mate and Smothered mate
• Be able to see Chess is a way of maximising your value chain - opening, middlegame, endgame and other skills like psychology, maximising win probability
• Be able to know the basic pawn structures which often result from many different openings such as the Isolated Queen's Pawn, Doubled pawns, Hanging Pawns
• Be able to know about the major world chess champions and their value-chain strengths such as Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov
• Be able to understand many of the chess terms, and games and puzzles in Netflix Queen's Gambit popular series in a detailed episode by episode manner
• Be able to know how to handle the basic opening traps of Chess and how to set them up for unsuspecting opponents such as an early Queen to h5 attack
• Be able to appreciate the most important fundamentals of Kingscrusher's more advanced courses and be able to advance onto them later like a jigsaw puzzle
• Be able to appreciate the rules of chess for both casual play and later tournament play so you don't risk losing games uncessarily
• Be able to see plenty of examples of the most important chess tactics which will win you many games and enable you to see the true beauty of chess
• Be able to use Opening Systems which can be largely independent of what the opponent does such as the London System, Torre Attack, Colle System
• Be able to know the basic ideas and plans of major Chess openings susch as the French Defence, Sicilian Defence, Nimzo Indian, King's Indian, Slav Defence
• Be able to make use of fun exciting chess gambits which can help stretch and train your tactical abilities such as the King's Gambit
• Be able to make use of key middlegame tactics such as forking, skewering, double attacks, discovered attacks, removing the defender, deflections and more
• Be able to leverage essential endgame concepts and positions such as "Rule of the Square", Triangulation, the Vancura Defence, the Lucena position and others
• Be able to appreciate strong middlegame processes which prioritise forcing moves and enable you to calculate potentially many moves ahead
• Be able to leverage many important crystalised improving tips and winning tips gained from years of experience of Kingscrusher
• Be able to appreciate the instructive value and importance and humour of many famous chess quotations from masters of the past in their thoughts

Requirements

• Absolutely none - aimed at total chess beginners who don't even know the rules of chess!

Target audience

• Absolute beginners
• Intermediate and Advanced players if they have any tiny cracks either technically or philosophically which the course does not shy away from