Term 1 a Positions notes discovered attacks
Term 1 b Positions notes pins and unsound attacks and intermediate checks (intermezzo moves)
Term 1 c Positions notes smothered mates
Term 1 d Positions notes middleboard mates
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Term 2 c Positions - - - - - - - - there were no a or b positions
Term 2 d Positions notes - - - - -

Primary School Coaching Chess Positions



Chess Terms Used
  Primary Schools Results  



Week 1 Removing the support of an attack OR the defender of a position Gamescores

Week 2 Forsyth Notation; Imagination; Visualisation; Cramped pieces Gamescores

Week 3 Check-Mating

Week 4 The back row mate; being out of position; piece values Gamescores

Week 5 Good pieces/bad pieces

Week 6 26 May - How pieces attack

Week 7 2 June - looking for weaknesses

Week 8 9 June - weaknesses again

Week 9 16 June - endgame examples



Web pages Prepared and based upon tutorials by Keith Farrell (April 1999)