Monday After-School Kids Club – Advanced (1400 – 2000)

Monday After-School Kids Club
– Advanced (1400 – 2000)

THE AUTUMN TERM IS NOW UNDERWAY: Continuous Enrolment! Sign up anytime and only pay for the remaining classes!

MONDAY AFTERNOONS: (5 – 6.15 PM) – Online on Zoom

TERM DATES (7 WEEKS): 8th/ 15th/ 22nd/ 29th September & 6th/ 13th/ 20th October 2025

COURSE LEVEL:
Primary & Secondary School Kids; Rated 1400 – 2000 ELO

COURSE THEMES: Middlegame Plan Formation & Calculating Better and Deeper.

COURSE DETAIL:
Group analysis, strategic thinking and calculating accurately is the core of this course. Students will be given a set of difficult puzzles and tricky middlegame challenges to mull over in advance of each class. The positions that students will be challenged to solve will come from their own games as well as contemporary and classic master games. The aim of this course is to give students a new set of tools to help:

Choose the best attacking plan in complex middlegame positions
Select the best practical defensive set-up when your opponent has the upper-hand.
Calculate key lines more accurately and deeply

Students also get to play a weekly friendly tournament or practice game against other in Lichess, which is then analysed in class, providing immediate feedback on their game.

Students can play through puzzle solutions in the form of compelte annotated games in a dedicated Lichess Study.

COURSE FEES:
70 Euros (10 Euro per student per class)
This course will run with a minimum of 6 students. If cancelled, a full refund will be issued.

If joining a few classes into the term, just email mark@chessbud.ie to find out the correct amount based on the remaining classes in the term.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COURSE
The group meets once a week on Zoom for 75 minutes on Monday afternoons from 5 – 6.15pm The course is reserved for primary and secondary school kids who have an online or over-the-board rating of 1400 – 2000 Elo. The weekly tournament game is played on lichess.org so students must have a free lichess account to take part in class tournaments.

BOOK NOW!
TO SECURE YOUR PLACE ON THIS COURSE,
PLEASE FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FORM BELOW AND FOLLOW PAYMENT STEPS TO SECURE YOUR BOOKING.

Parent / Guardian Name

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Last

Phone

Student's Name

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Last

Student's School

Online or ICU or FIDE Rating

Tell us about your child's chess journey so far and any short or long term ambitions.

Name of student's free account on Lichess.org so he or she can be invited to access course content.

How did you find out about the Monday After-School Advanced Club, i.e. ICU website, FB, Insta, google etc. Thanks for letting us know!

Choose your preferred payment option to secure your child's place on the course.

EFT and Paypal Payment Details are listed below this form on the Course Page. Or you can Revolut us your payment to: +353-85-1526889 or by using the link – https://revolut.me/markmtykf

SECURE YOUR BOOKING:

You can choose one of the following payment options to secure your place on this course:

Revolut to:
+353-85-1526889 or by using this link – https://revolut.me/markmtykf

2. Paypal to:
mark@chessbud.ie or through searching my username: @chessbud

3. EFT to Chess Bud IBAN:
IE82AIBK93319864200001

When paying by EFT, please don’t forget to include your name, so that I know who the payment is for. Many thanks!

IM Mark Quinn,
Chess Bud Ireland