Manual for chess trainers Step 1
Ready-made lessons, hints on how to use the workbooks, and practical help. An indispensable companion for any teacher.
Contents
The manual is a great support for the teacher (chess trainer, parent), even for an experienced one. Ready-made lessons, hints on how to use the workbooks and how to give assistance — almost everything is to be found in it.
Introductory articles about, among other things:
- How children learn to play chess
- Organisation
- Motivation
- Teaching
- Who should teach chess?
- Sequence of the teaching material
- Asking questions
- Giving assistance
- The workbooks
- Playing
- Running groups
- Certificates
Themes
The first Step is divided into 15 base lessons:
- Board and pieces
- Moves of the pieces
- Attacking and capturing
- The pawn
- Defending
- Check and getting out of check
- Mate (1)
- Mate (2)
- Castling
- Profitable exchange
- Twofold attack
- Draw
- Mating with the queen
- Taking 'en passant'
- The notation
Deepening
For the plus part there are 8 lessons. The themes concentrate very much on improving board vision. The material is largely familiar, but with an important extra: students are asked to choose between two different options. In Step 1 plus the student really has to think and concentrate, otherwise it will not work.
- Winning material
- Defending
- Mate
- Board vision
- Defending against mate
- Draws
- Creating mate
- The passed pawn
Who is it for?
A long chapter is devoted to teaching young children and how to deal with the two Stepping stones — workbooks designed in the first place for children between the ages of six and nine.
- What changes have we made compared to the Step 1 workbook?
- Children between six and nine
- Perception
- Seating arrangement in front of the demonstration board
- Teaching aids
- How to work with the children
- Language