Step by Step: Mate is designed to improve your checkmate pattern and visualization skills. The premise is simple: solve the mate-in-one puzzle, then, while visualizing the mating pattern, solve step-by-step for mate-in-two and mate-in-three. You can utilize the puzzles as exercises or lessons in a classroom setting in conjunction with the ChessEdu.org curriculum. Nearly everyone can find a mate-in-one, but visualizing three moves ahead is exponentially harder to a surprising degree. Working through these examples will help you memorize common mating patterns and sharpen your intuition as to when a mating attack is warranted, even when it involves sacrificing material. You will learn to … [Read more...]

Step by Step: Mate is designed to improve your checkmate pattern and visualization skills. The premise is simple: solve the mate-in-one puzzle, then, while visualizing the mating pattern, solve step-by-step for mate-in-two and mate-in-three. You can utilize the puzzles as exercises or lessons in a classroom setting in conjunction with the ChessEdu.org curriculum. Nearly everyone can find a mate-in-one, but visualizing three moves ahead is exponentially harder to a surprising degree. Working through these examples will help you memorize common mating patterns and sharpen your intuition as to when a mating attack is warranted, even when it involves sacrificing material. You will learn to … [Read more...]

The ChessEdu.org curriculum is designed to provide a complete syllabus for using chess as a tool for teaching problem-solving, creative thinking, and abstract reasoning in a classroom setting. To help capture the imagination of the student, the ChessEdu.org belt system is based on the adult Brazilian Jiujitsu belt system. As students progress, the teacher can print out the belt certificates provided on the ChessEdu.org resources page as a means of reward and to recognize achievement. Make a $25 (or more) tax deductible donation and we will send log in details to access the entire curriculum as well as all archived content at ChessCafe.com – including thousands of PDFs and hundreds of eBooks. … [Read more...]

The ChessEdu.org curriculum is designed to provide a complete syllabus for using chess as a tool for teaching problem-solving, creative thinking, and abstract reasoning in a classroom setting. To help capture the imagination of the student, the ChessEdu.org belt system is based on the adult Brazilian Jiujitsu belt system. As students progress, the teacher can print out the belt certificates provided on the ChessEdu.org resources page as a means of reward and to recognize achievement. Make a $25 (or more) tax deductible donation and we will send log in details to access the entire curriculum as well as all archived content at ChessCafe.com – including thousands of PDFs and hundreds of eBooks. … [Read more...]

The ChessEdu.org curriculum is designed to provide a complete syllabus for using chess as a tool for teaching problem-solving, creative thinking, and abstract reasoning in a classroom setting. To help capture the imagination of the student, the ChessEdu.org belt system is based on the adult Brazilian Jiujitsu belt system. As students progress, the teacher can print out the belt certificates provided on the ChessEdu.org resources page as a means of reward and to recognize achievement. Make a $25 (or more) tax deductible donation and we will send log in details to access the entire curriculum as well as all archived content at ChessCafe.com – including thousands of PDFs and hundreds of eBooks. … [Read more...]