Summer Chess Clinic at

Boylston Chess Club

Open to ages 7 and up, this scholastic chess clinic allows students to grow their skills and join a community of chess lovers. Whether your child is a beginner or a tournament veteran, our clinic has coaching and resources suited to every level.

Curriculum: Advanced Group

  • Techniques in Calculation

  • Building an Opening repertoire

  • Endgame Fundamentals (King and Pawn and Rook and Pawn focused)

  • Middlegame Pawn Breaks

  • Battle of Knights and Bishops

  • Positional Evaluation and Planning

  • Mastering Attack and Defense

  • How to analyze your own games

Activities:

  • Simuls against titled players

  • Puzzle solving and composition

  • Team Chess Games

  • Tournament style games

  • Game Analysis

  • Memory Challenges

  • Visualization Drills

  • Variant Tournaments

  • Group Lessons

  • Free Play

Schedule:

Monday - Friday

Full Day: 9:00am - 4:00pm

Early Day: 9:00am - 12:30pm

Late Day: 12:30pm - 4:00pm

Week 1: 7/6 - 7/10

Week 2: 7/13 - 7/17

Week 3: 8/3 - 8/7

Week 4: 8/10 - 8/14

Curriculum: Core Group

  • Rules of Chess

  • Elementary Checkmates (K+Q vs K, etc)

  • Drawing Rules

  • Opening Principles

  • Basic Tactics (Forks, Pins, Skewers, etc)

  • Thinking Techniques

  • How to make a plan

  • Endgame Principles

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