Chess: Principles and Strategies

Course ID: CRE-092

Audience
Adult Continuing Education and High School Programs

Course Description
The goal of this course is to familiarize you with the four principles of chess: force, time, space, and pawn structure. Acquiring these principles and strategies will enable you to determine the right move to be made at a given point in the game.

Medium
The course is available in braille and on cassette.

Organization
The course is based on five chapters in the book entitled, Play Winning Chess

Credit
none

Prerequisites
Completion of “Chess for Beginners” or instructor approval; reading and writing competence in contracted braille

Overview
Four assignments are submitted to the instructor.

Grading
S or U

Average Completion Time
Approximately 12 months

Objectives and Content
After completing Chapter 1, you will be able to:
a. Explain material advantage
b. Use tactics that result in material advantage over your opponent

After completing Chapter 2, you will be able to:
a. Explain how time can be a factor in gaining an advantage
b. Use tactics that employ the principle of time to gain advantage over your opponent

After completing Chapter 3, you will be able to:
a. Explain how to use space advantage
b. Use tactics that employ space to gain advantage over your opponent

After completing Chapter 4, you will be able to:
a. Explain the importance of pawns
b. Use pawns to gain an advantage over your opponent

After completing Chapter 5, you will be able to:
a. Analyze annotated games that feature lessons in chess
b. Use the information absorbed from published, annotated games to improve your game.
c. Identify the advantages of the four principles introduced in this textbook over calculation of every move.
d. Identify some psychological factors that affect chess players