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Chess for Beginners

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5 sessions

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This series ended on July 1, 2022. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

About

We will plan to learn the basics of chess. We will learn how all the pieces move, strategies, and possibly some easy openings if people are interested. I also plan to do tournaments in the later sessions. I will be asking you to create a chess.com account to set up tournaments.

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Samuel S 🇺🇸

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I'm a high school student from New York. In my spare time, I enjoy playing chess and tennis.

Schedule

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

I recommend that you don't miss the first couple of sessions because we will cover the basics of playing chess during those sessions. If you are unable to come to a session please message me beforehand.

SESSION 1

27

Jun

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Mon 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTCJun 27, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC

In this session, we will learn how the chess pieces move, the rules of chess, and learn some other moves such as castling and en passant.
SESSION 2

28

Jun

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Tue 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTCJun 28, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC

In this session, we will go over strategies in chess and some chess puzzles.
SESSION 3

29

Jun

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Wed 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTCJun 29, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC

In this session, we will first do puzzles and then do some chess tournaments using chess.com.
SESSION 4

30

Jun

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Thu 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTCJun 30, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC

In this session, we will again do puzzles first and we can do either openings or more chess tournaments.
SESSION 5

1

Jul

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Fri 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTCJul 1, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM UTC

In this session, we will either play fun chess variants such as bughouse or crazy house or we can do a long tournament.

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Jun 27 - Jul 1

1 week

60 mins

/ session

SCHEDULE

Monday, Jun 27

1:00PM

Tuesday, Jun 28

1:00PM

Wednesday, Jun 29

1:00PM

Thursday, Jun 30

1:00PM

Friday, Jul 1

1:00PM