Fall in-person courses
A place to learn, play, and keep growing.
Group lessons run Tuesday through Saturday at 27 Bleeker St in Millburn. Our fall semester runs from September to the end of January, with open enrollment throughout the term.
The curriculum
Progress, one move at a time.
Coursework changes under each coach’s supervision. Students receive homework based on the week’s lesson.
Foundations
Opening ideas, checkmate patterns, forks, double attacks, and defending your pieces.
- — Introduction to Opposition Technique
- — Battery Attacks: Twofold attacks
- — Golden moves: Opening
- — Review
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- — Composing Checkmates
- — Conceptualizing 2 Move Checkmates
- — Single Rook Checkmate
- — Trapping Pieces
- — Playing against the Coach and Apply the Course Knowledge
- — Targets of Attack
- — Defending Against Everything
- — Scotch Opening
- — Practice the Basics of Scotch Opening
- — Introduction to discovered attacks
- — 4 Forks Review
- — Double Attack: Cooperation of two pieces
Building confidence
Develop tactical vision, learn classic openings, and begin analyzing master games.
- — Scholar’s Mate Advanced
- — How to Find the Tactic in Unknown
- — Playing Against the Philidor’s Defense
- — Review
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- — Elimination of Defense: Checkmate
- — Second Queen: Dreams Come True: Pawn Promotion
- — Acing The Italian Opening: Learn and Master Concepts
- — Practicing Italian Opening
- — Defending 101: Against Tactics and Checkmates
- — Clearance and Desperado Sacrifices
- — Morphy vs Duke Isouard Game Analysis
- — Review
- — Strong Squares and Outposts
- — Wedge Pawns
Deeper tactics
Explore complex combinations, positional play, and practical endgames.
- — The Greek Gift: All Variations
- — Game Essentials: Fisher vs Benko
- — Complex Discovered Attack: Luring Method
- — Minimizing Blunders
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- — Horrwitz Bishops: Double Power
- — Game Analysis: Kasparov vs Karpov: Spanish Opening
- — Crusher Tactics: Common Themes: Placing a Pin Back and Forth
- — Endgame: Pawn Race With Tactical Thinking
- — Playing against the Coach and Apply the Course Knowledge
- — Scandinavian Defense: Learning and Mastering the Concepts Part 1
- — Practice Playing Scandinavian Defense Part 2
- — Attacking the Castled King: Rook, Bishop and Knight
Advanced play
Study strategic decisions, celebrated games, and sophisticated endgame patterns.
- — Unarming the Castled King: Defenses Begone
- — Immortal Game Analysis
- — King’s Gambit Opening: Learning and Mastering the Concepts
- — Practice Playing King’s Gambit
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- — Pseudo Sacrifice
- — Deadly Diagonal
- — Play Against the Coach and Apply Course Knowledge
- — Trapping Pieces Combinations
- — Modern Defense: Learning and Mastering the Concepts
- — Practice Playing Modern Defense
- — Combinations in the Endgame: Back Rank & Chasing King
- — 7th Rank Mastery: Strategy
- — Play Against the Coach and Apply Course Knowledge
27 Bleeker St · Millburn
Class schedule
Joining after the semester begins? Email us for prorated tuition. Registration is completed through the form, with tuition paid by Zelle to chessinmillburn@gmail.com.
Register for fall classes