Step 2 Manual

Manual for chess trainers Step 2

Contents:

Introductory articles about:

  • The second Step
  • The teacher
  • Characteristics of children’s games
  • Teaching material in the second Step
  • The characteristic features of children's play
  • The sequence of the material
  • Teaching
  • The discussion of children’s games
  • The Chess Tutor
  • Book or computer?

For the students almost everything is new in the second step. That is why there is a smaller number of lessons than in the other steps.

  1. Activity of pieces
  2. Double attack: queen (1)
  3. Double attack: queen (2)
  4. The pin
  5. Elimination of the defence
  6. The 3 golden rules
  7. Mate in two
  8. Double attack: RBNK
  9. Mating with the rook
  10. Discovered attack
  11. Defending against mate
  12. The intermediate move
  13. Solving tests

Further 9 lessons for the plus workbook.

  1. Mate
  2. Pawn endings
  3. The opening
  4. Defending
  5. Route planner
  6. Working out mate
  7. Stalemate
  8. Winning material
  9. Playing rules