Introduction 1st Course
Why
learn chess?
It`s an interesting game and a sport you can do in each situation, independent
of your circumstances in life. it can keep your mind fit in age.You can play it
with nearly every kind of disability, even though you would have problems
with communications you can find new interesting contacts by chess. Chess is a
sport that you can do in each age; you`re never too old or too young. You can
find friends by chess from ages from 6 to 100.
With
which attitude of mind you should play chess?
Even though chess is a tactical game you should not see the board as a warfield,
but as a (difficult) riddle that wants to be solved.If you win a game, you
haven`t won a battle, but solved a riddle better than you opponent.If you loose
the game, don`t worry!! You mustn`t doubt about your mind or your skills, you`re
not a looser if you loose a game. And last not least- it`s a game! Not
life! But it can make your life more funful.
What you need of materials for the lessons?
A chessgame (at the best with notation, because at the classroom is none setup) that we can tell the moves and everyone makes them on his board, but don`t worry! If you haven`t got a chessgame yet, here you can print a board and pieces , cut them out and use them.
Writing material: a sheet of paper ans a ballpen to write down your notices.
We`ll work with animated graphics those show how the pieces move etc, for making the course more interesting and clearer. Some discussed positions are from books and some ones are created.
We`ll work with some links too!
A chess-webeditor for playing our moves, making diagrams those you can save , http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.php Or if it shouldn`t work:
http://members.shaw.ca/lapides/pgnedit/pgnedit.html
The site of our WAPD-Chess-Chapter-Forum where you can discuss about the course, http://wapdchesschapte.kostenloses-forum.tk ,
a site where you can create a board for playing without password, download and registration http://www.realchess.com/cgi-bin/board.pl and our Chess Online-Campus!
http://chessonlinecamp.kostenloses-forum.tk . Please bookmark or save these links, you`ll need them for the courses and in future, and for playing in our forum.
The site (Forum) for our chess-lessons There you can answer to polls in the topics of the lessons as your assignment. In each poll you have six questions, one of them is right. Find it out!
You can believe me, if you play relaxed and learn chess in a friendly atmosphere, you`ll soon love this game! But never forget: It`s nearly impossible to play the first time and win; but very soon you`ll see your first won game. Don`t be frustrated of a loss- chess is a challenge because it`s a difficult-but a beautiful game. In future there will follow more courses and classes in our campus, for real beginners, beginners, advanced beginners, advanced players, good players and masters. The reason why i have many chessprojects for selfhelp-groups, disabled`s and so on is that i want to mediate you how much fun it is to play without stress, fees and ratings and with communication between players, not only for getting success by playing. That`s the reason why i don`t play in a club but i have my projects. And now lets go to our first lesson!