Institute of Chess - GM Chris Ward
Level 1 - 5

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level 1

01) The Chess Board 2
02) The King 3
03) The Rook 4
04) The Bishop 5
05) The Queen 6
06) The Knight 7
07) The Pawn 8
08) The Game 10
09) Check 11
10) Checkmate 14
11) Stalemate 17
12) Castling 19
13) Illegal Moves and the Value of the Pieces 22

level 2

01) Notating a Game and the Four Move Mate 2
02) Annotation Symbols 4
03) The ?Lawnmower? Checkmate 5
04) Checkmating with a King and Queen 8
05) Checkmating with a King and Rook 11
06) The Sacrifice 14
07) Tips on Stalemate 18
08) The Fork 20
09) The Pin 21
10) The Skewer 24
11) Discovered Check 26
12) Double Check 28
13) Doubling up 30
14) The 7th Rank 33
15) The Overloaded Piece 35

level 3

Basic Endgame Concepts
01) The Monster King 2
02) Rooks belong behind Passed Pawns 5
03) Checking from the Side 8
04) Shouldering off the Enemy King 10
05) The Opposition 11
06) Pushing Passed Pawns 13
07) Keeping your Distance 15
08) Cutting off the King 17
09) The Skewer Trick 19
10) Tricks to aid in Promotion 21
11) King and Queen Vs King and Pawn on 7th Rank 25

Combinations and Tactical Ideas
12) Simple Diagonal Alignment 28
13) Eliminating an Escape 30
14) The Queen and Knight Pairing 32
15) Plugging the Gaps 35
16) Revisiting the Overloaded Piece 36
17) Exploiting Unprotected Pieces 38
18) The Wonderful Discovered Check 39
19) Escaping Pins 41
20) Legall's Mate 45
21) Copying Errors and Miscalculations 46
22) More on Pins 50
23) Playing for Hopes 53
24) Working with Knight Forks 54
25) The Greek Gift 57
26) Exploiting the Restricted King 60

Some Openings and Associated Middlegames
27) A Practical 1 e4 e5 Lecture 62
28) The Sicilian Defence 75
29) The French Defence 82
30) The Nimzo-Indian Defence 87
31) The King's Indian 91
32) The Queen's Gambit 95

level 4

Endgame Techniques
01) Zugswang and Mutual Zugswang 2
02) Triangulation 3
03) Knights and Rook?s Pawns 5
04) Decoys and Deflections 7
05) Rook vs. Two Connected Pawns 9
06) Rook vs. More Pawns 13
07) Rook and Pawn vs. Rook 16

Tactical and Positional Concepts
08) Destroying the Defensive Barrier 24
09) Building a Combination 26
10) An Arabian Knight 29
11) Sacrifices on f7 and e6 32
12) Eliminating the Fianchettoed Bishop 35
13) Exploiting the Restricted King 37
14) The Development of a Combination: An Illustrative Game 39
15) The Outpost 44
16) Utilising a Space Advantage 46
17) The Maroczy Bind and the Hedgehog 52

Some Opening Study
18) A Practical 1 e4 e5 Lecture 55
19) The Queen's Gambit Accepted: 3 e4 62
20) The French Defence: Advanced Variation 72
21) The Sicilian Dragadorf 77

level 5

01. Bishop's Opening and the Portuguese Opening 2
02. Pirc and Modern Defences 6
03. Queen's Gambit Accepted and Anti-Marshall Lines of Lopez 11
04. Anti-Sicilians 16
05. Planning ? the Basics 22
06. Middlegame Strategy: Open Centre 26
07. Middlegame Strategy: Closed Centre 32
08. Middlegame Strategy: Centre under Tension 38
09. Analysis of Games: Planning 42
10. Analysis of Games: Combinations 48
11. Putting it all together: Learn from the Champions 56
12. Unusual Openings: an Introduction 61
13. Unusual Openings in Practice: Playing against them 67
14. Exploiting an Advantage 74