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KNIGHT
A Chess Knight tries to maintain material balance, ready to recapture lost pieces, but often falls prey to double attacks. A Knight can confidently checkmate K+Q or K+R against K, is starting to use combinations, and has some concept of positional play.
Requirements / Coaching Guide
- Fool's Mate
- demonstrate 1. f4 e6 2. g4 Qh4#
- Scholar's Mate
- demonstrate 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Bc5 3. Qh5 Nf6 4. Qxf7# and variations on that theme.
- Combinations I
- teach various (at least 10) simple combinations involving forks, pins, and skewers to win material. First, demonstrate a theme, then set up a similar position for the player to find.
- Mate with RR
- teach technique for checkmating with two rooks.
- Mate with R
- teach technique for checkmating with one rook.
- Mate with Q
- teach technique for checkmating with queen.
- Open/Semi-Open Files
- define open and semi-open files, demonstrating the natural paths created for rooks.
- Doubled Rooks
- demonstrate the power of doubled rooks in files and on the seventh rank.
- Mate in One
- mate in one quizzes (at least 20) from Polgar's big CHESS book.
- Greco
- go over six Greco games
- Promotion Game
- Win a game from a higher-rated player getting Knight odds.
Requirements continue to evolve and may therefore change at any time. Substitutions may be granted in some cases to award particularly strong play.
