Chess School 1a:
Combinations: Stages 1, 2 & 3
by Sergey Ivashchenko

Chess School 1a

Its that time of year and school is in session. You don't need pens or #2 pencils, but you will need to focus. The problems in this book are designed to train the youthful (or at least chessically youthful) chess player to think. Stress is on development of the ability to focus, to diagnose or analyse and to build logical solutions. The problems in this book, although basic, are the building blocks of future success both on the chessboard and abstractly, in approaching life situations.

The material is divided into three stages of progressive compexity:

Stage 1:

• Mate in 1, rook checkmates
  
• Mate in 1, queen checkmates 
  
• Mate in 1, bishop checkmates
  
• Mate in 1, knight checkmates
  
• Mate in 1, pawn checkmates
  
• Mate in 1, various
  

Stage 2:

• Mate in 1, various
  
• Win a rook
  
• Win a knight 
  
• Win a bishop 
  
• Win a queen 
  
• Draw 
  
• Mate in 2 by double check 
  
• Mate in 2 by queen sacrifice
  
• Mate in 2 by rook sacrifice
  
• Mate in 2 by bishop sacrifice
  
• Mate in 2 by knight sacrifice 
  

Stage 3:

• Mate in 2, queen checkmates
  
• Mate in 2, rook checkmates
  
• Mate in 2, knight checkmates
  
• Mate in 2, bishop checkmates 
  
• Mate in 2, pawn checkmates 
  
• Win a rook 
  
• Win a knight 
  
• Win a bishop
  
• Win a queen 
  

Author: Sergey Ivashchenko

Title: None

Published: 2007

Pages:144

Annotation: FAN