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

THE NOV/DEC TERM IS NOW ENROLING: If you have missed the beginning of term, don’t worry, there is 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): 3rd/ 10th/ 17th/ 24th November & 1st/ 8th/ 15th December 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 for two months after the term ends.

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.