Manual for chess trainers Step 2

Contents

The manual is a great support for the teacher, even for an experienced one: ready-made lessons, hints on how to use the workbooks and how to give assistance. From the tenth edition onwards, lessons for the Step 2 plus workbook are also included, plus 26 pages of guidelines for using the Step 2 thinking-ahead workbook.

Introductory articles (in the twelfth edition expanded to 61 pages) about:

• The second Step
• The teacher
• Characteristics of children's games
• Teaching material in the second Step
• Sequence of the material
• Teaching (long: 21 pp.)
• The use of solving exercises
• Discussing children's games
• Fitting in a game review
• The Chess Tutor
• Book or computer?
• Chess for adults

Themes

For the students, almost everything is new in the second Step. There are therefore fewer lessons than in the other Steps. The base workbook Step 2 has 13 lessons:

• Activity of pieces
• Double attack: queen (1)
• Double attack: queen (2)
• Pin
• Eliminating the defence
• The 3 golden rules
• Mate in two
• Double attack: R B N p K
• Mating with the rook
• Discovered attack
• Defending against mate
• The intermediate move
• Solving tests

Deepening

Plus 10 lessons for the plus workbook:

• Mate
• Pawn endings
• The opening
• Defending
• Route planner
• Working out mate
• Stalemate
• Winning material
• Playing rules
• Defending against the passed pawn