Manual for chess trainers Step 4

Contents

The manual is a great support for the chess trainer, even for an experienced teacher: ready-made lessons, hints on how to use the workbooks and how to give assistance. The answers of the base and plus workbooks can be downloaded and are no longer in the manual — the 40 extra pages create even more room for introductory articles, lessons and additional practice material.

Introductory articles (31 pp.) about, among other things:

• The fourth Step
• Teaching material in Step 4
• The way to independent learning
• Playing (and analysing your own games)
• Thinking ahead
• Help
• Keeping playing or quitting
• Investigating positions

Themes

Step 4 has 17 base lessons:

• Advantage in the opening
• Interfering
• Luring
• Blocking
• Thinking ahead
• Pin: luring
• The passed pawn
• Eliminating the defence
• The magnet
• Weak pawns
• Material advantage
• Chasing and aiming
• King's attack
• Seventh rank
• Endgame strategy
• Clearance
• Queen vs. pawn

Deepening

Plus 11 lessons for the plus workbook:

• King's attack
• Vulnerabilities in the opening
• Interfering
• Blocking
• Draw
• Trapping
• Small plan
• Pawn endings
• Discovered attack
• Endgame technique
• The chess problem