Are you new to chess? Are you struggling to improve? Do you find chess apps, YouTube videos, and books frustrating? Are chess jargon and strategic concepts mystifying to you?
Do you want to enjoy the cognitive benefits of chess? Or spend quality time over the chessboard with your kids, grandkids, parents, or friends? Move from beginner to intermediate? Intermediate to Advanced? Or do you just want to have more fun and win a few more games? ​
I can help you achieve your chess goals through one-on-one in person or online instruction. The 15 Steps to Elevate Your Chess curriculum provides a comprehensive but easy-to-grasp & recall view of chess that will elevate all aspects of your play.
The Deadly Pawn Storm
Forming your Rooks and Queen into "Alekhine's Gun"
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father and Obsessive Chess Player
15 Steps to Elevate Your Chess
STEP 1: How the pieces move, checkmates, and other basics
STEP 2: Develop your pieces and build your king's castle
STEP 3: Defend your pieces, attack enemy pieces
STEP 4: Tactics: pins, forks, discovered attacks, and more
STEP 5: The awesome power of the humble pawn
STEP 6: Read the board and develop your strategy
STEP 7: Closed games, open games, and your comfort zone
STEP 8: Bishops vs. Knights: are they equal? It depends...
STEP 9: Crush weak points and invade weak squares
STEP 10: Squeeze your opponent like a python
STEP 11: Swing a wrecking ball to demolish the king’s castle
STEP 12: Learn to love endgames
STEP 13: Openings: how to select, study, and play
STEP 14: Analyze your games and keep improving
STEP 15: Using chess engines, apps, and books
