I am an experienced chess instructor with a rich background in both offline and online teaching. Over the past decade, I have dedicated myself to shaping young minds through chess, fostering a love for the game while instilling strategic thinking and discipline. With four years of successful online teaching experience, I've adapted my methods to the digital realm, ensuring effective and engaging lessons. I am excited about the prospect of bringing my passion, expertise, and commitment to your chess program.

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Dhakshina Murthy

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hai i am dhakshinamurthy. i am having 15 yeears experience in online and offline.

Degree: Bachelors of Computer Application - University: jain

Degree: Masters of Computer Applications - University: jain

Degree: BA - University: jain

Chess is one of the oldest games in the world, and may be the oldest board game. Its origins stem back to India, over 1500 years ago, with the unclear but widely accepted view that the original versions of chess were invented around 600 A.D. Though it’s believed to have started in East Asia, India, and Persia, the modern version of the game—meaning the rules we use today—did not begin taking shape until chess moved west, into France and areas of Southern Europe, around the 15th Century.

The Chessboard: 64 squares, divided by files, ranks and diagonals.

The game of chess is played on a perfectly square, 8x8 board. There are 64 squares on a chessboard, alternating light and dark (White and Black). When you face a chessboard, the bottom-right corner should always be a White/light square, either from White or Black's perspective. This is very important when setting up the pieces.

• Learning Objectives:

  Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Using a chess board, how would you show someone the other longest diagonal on the board: a1-h8?

  Scorekeeping

  Scorekeeping: how to use algebraic notation

  Level I: Knowledge

  Part 2: Setting Up the Board and Learning the Value Of the Chessmen

  How to set up a chessboard, from start to finish.

  Each Queen is placed on its starting position

  Essential Question, Level I

  Laced on its starting position

  Essential Question, Level I

  
   

• Course Outline:

  Scorekeeping: the basics of keeping track of a game with algebraic notation In order to work through this curriculum or play in a chess tournament, you will need to understand how to read a chessboard. Though there have been many different methods used to keep track of a game throughout history, the best, most efficient method we use in chess today is called Algebraic Notation. Each chess square has a unique address, a name that is different from that of every other square. If you look down from the square, you'll see a letter, and if you look to the left of a square, you’ll see a number. Each square's special address is that letter and number combined. When using algebraic chess terms, we always say the letter first. There are stars on e4 and h6. Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Can you write the algebraic notation for one of the squares that is not starred? Are there any other

  subjects in schools that teach you to use a graph like this chessboard?

  
   

  • Kingside—this term describes every square and piece that is on the board from the e-file (the king's file)  over to the h-file
  • Queenside—this references the entire board to the left of the d-file all the way to the a-file
  • White's side—the first to the fourth rank
  • Black's side—the fifth to the eighth rank

  Congratulations! You now speak chess! Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge
  Why do you suppose the squares from the e-file to the hfile are referred to as the kingside? And why are the squares from the d-file to the a-file considered the
  Queenside?

  Part 2: Setting Up the Board and Learning the Value Of the Chessmen
  Key Concepts

  • Setting up a chess board from start to finish.
  • Piece values (the point value of each piece).

  How to set up a chessboard, from start to finish.

  Each King is placed on its starting position: the White King starts on e1, and the Black King starts on e8. Note the kings start on the opposite color square of their army: the White King on a Black square and the Black King on a White square. Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge What is the starting color for each king?

  What is the starting color for each king?
  Each Queen is placed on its starting position: The White Queen starts on d1, and the Black Queen starts on d8. Note the Queens start the game on their color: the Black Queen on a Black square; the White Queen on a White square. A fun way to remember to place the Queen on her own color is to say, “In the old days, all Queens had to make sure that their dress matched their shoes, especially when going to the ball!”
  Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge What is the starting color for each Queen?

  Each Rook is placed on its starting position in one of the four corners of the board: White Rooks are placed on a1 and h1, and Black Rooks placed on a8 and h8.
  Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Can you write the algebraic notation for each Rook in this diagram? 

  Laced on its starting position: White Knights are placed on b1 and g1, and Black Knights are placed on b8 and g8. The Knights stand next to the Rooks.
  Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Can you write the algebraic notation of each of the Knights? Each Bishop is placed on its starting position: White
  Bishops are placed on c1 and f1, and the Black Bishops are placed on c8 and f8. 

   

  Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Can you write the algebraic notation of each Bishop? Each player starts with eight Pawns. White's Pawns are placed along the second rank from a2-h2, and Black's Pawns are placed along the seventh rank from a7-h7. Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Can you state which rank the White Pawns begin on and which rank the Black Pawns begin on, using algebraic notation? The Chessboard is complete: the basic rules and introduction to the chessmen.

  Chess is a board game played between two players. Each player takes a turn to move, with White always moving first. The turns alternate: a player must move when it is his or her turn, every move after White makes the first move. The diagram you see is the starting position to every game of chess. White's pieces are always set up along the first and second ranks, while Black's pieces occupy the seventh and eighth ranks. There are 32 chessmen: 16 chessmen for White and 16 chessmen for Black. A chessman is either a piece or a Pawn. Each player starts out with one king, one Queen, two Rooks, two Knights, two Bishops, and  eight Pawns. Essential Question, Level I: Knowledge Could you recall the setup of the board if it was wiped clean? Show your teacher that you can do this!
  Over the years, experience has taught us that some pieces are more powerful than others. We have tried to capture that idea by assigning point values to the different chess pieces. These points are used to make decisions. “Should I give up my Queen for that Pawn?” is an example. Once you know and understand the point values, you will know the answer to that question! Students also first need to use this knowledge in Lesson 4. Though a game can still be won by someone who is losing in total points, it is not likely. This will be reiterated in Lesson 4. You win a chess game through checkmate, not points, but points are an important guideline for making decisions. They help you choose and estimate who has more or less material (more powerful pieces) in any given position.

   

• Recomended Audience:

  These Hobbies classes and Extracurricular activities are suitable for students whose age is more than or equal to 5 years old. As your child continues to grow, you will notice new and exciting abilities that your child develops. A child’s  brain grows the most during the first five years of life. By age 5, the brain has reached approximately 90 percent of its adult size. This means that much of the brain  structure and function has been established. Hence our best recommended audience for these hobbies classes are all students who are minimum 5 years old and more. Even a grownup student upto 16 years old can also go ahead for these Hobbies & Extra Curricular classes with their learning.

  
   

• Pre-Requisite Requirement:

  For attending Hobbies and Extra curricular activities classes, Basic prerequisite requirement is having interest in learning of that class. Without having natural interest on particular topic/class, it's not meaningful to proceed with it along with Instructor . So it's advisable to have these as a part of the learning phase of your life  if you are really inclined and motivated to learn that hobby or activity. You should have all the items and required things with you at your home which are needed in that class. If not then you must buy from the market after taking suggestions from Instructors as per provided standard.

  
   

• Course Level:
  Beginner
• Language of Teaching:
  English
• Class Schedule Availiability:
  Morning