CHESS PROGRAM OVERVIEW & WORKBOOK

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1 CHESS PROGRAM OVERVIEW & WORKBOOK MERIT BADGE UNIVERSITY OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS PROGRAM OVERVIEW MERIT BADGE REQUIREMENTS (Post-Class REQUIREMENTS IN BOLD BLUE UNDERLINED ITALICS) WORKBOOK ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OFFICIAL SCORESHEET Overland Trails Council, May 2012 Information in this booklet was accurate at the time of publishing. Chess Merit Badge Requirements, Copyrighted Boy Scouts of America

3 CHESS PROGRAM OVERVIEW BRING TO CLASS: Chess merit badge pamphlet. Chess merit badge workbook. Signed Application for Merit Badge, Blue Card. PRE-REQUISITES: None. CURRICULUM: POST-CLASS: Requirements 1, 2, 4, 5, & 6 will be completed during class. Requirement 3 will require Scouts to follow-up with teaching another Scout to play chess (see POST-CLASS: below) This merit badge requires two sessions to complete. Scouts must sign up for either sessions 1 & 3 or 2 & 3. Scouts will need to follow-up with teaching another Scout, using Scouting s Teaching EDGE, Requirement 3 of the Chess merit badge. CLASS SIZE: 20

4 CHESS Chess Merit Badge Requirements, 2011 POST CLASS REQUIREMENTS ARE PRINTED IN BOLD UNDERLINED BLUE ITALICS & WILL NEED TO BE COMPLETED AFTER CLASS. 1. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the history of the game of chess. Explain why it is considered a game of planning and strategy. 2. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the following: a. The benefits of playing chess, including developing critical thinking skills, concentration skills, and decision-making skills, and how these skills can help you in other areas of your life. b. Sportsmanship and chess etiquette 3. Demonstrate to your counselor that you know each of the following. Then, using Scouting s Teaching EDGE, teach the following to a Scout who does not know how to play chess: a. The name of each chess piece b. How to set up a chessboard c. How each chess piece moves, including castling and en passant captures 4. Do the following: a. Demonstrate scorekeeping using the algebraic system of chess notation. b. Discuss the differences between the opening, the middle game, and the endgame. c. Explain four opening principles. d. Explain the four rules for castling. e. On a chessboard, demonstrate a scholar s mate and a fool s mate. f. Demonstrate on a chessboard four ways a chess game can end in a draw. 5. Do the following: a. Explain four of the following elements of chess strategy: exploiting weaknesses, force, king safety, pawn structure, space, tempo, time. b. Explain any five of these chess tactics: clearance sacrifice, decoy, discovered attack, double attack, fork, interposing, overloading, overprotecting, pin, remove the defender, skewer, zwischenzug. c. Set up a chessboard with the white king on e1, the white rooks on a1 and h1, and the black king on e5. With white to move first, demonstrate how to force checkmate on the black king. d. Set up and solve five direct-mate problems provided by your merit badge counselor. 6. Do ONE of the following: a. Play at least three games of chess with other Scouts and/or your merit badge counselor. Replay the games from your score sheets and discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently. b. Play in a scholastic (youth) chess tournament and use your score sheets from that tournament to replay your games with your merit badge counselor. Discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently. c. Organize and run a chess tournament with at least four players, plus you. Have each competitor play at least two games.

5 CHESS WORKBOOK Unit # Council District 1. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the history of the game of chess. Explain why it is considered a game of planning and strategy. History: Explain planning and strategy: 2. Discuss with your merit badge counselor the following: a. The benefits of playing chess, including developing critical thinking skills, concentration skills, and decision-making skills, and how these skills can help you in other areas of your life. The benefits of play chess: Developing critical thinking skills: Concentration skills: Decision-making skills: How these skills can help: Sportsmanship: b. Sportsmanship and chess etiquette Etiquette:

6 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.2 3. Demonstrate to your counselor that you know each of the following. Then, using Scouting s Teaching EDGE, teach the following to a Scout who does not know how to play chess: a. The name of each chess piece each chess piece: b. How to set up a chessboard Set up a chessboard:

7 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.3 3. continued c. How each chess piece moves, including castling and en passant captures How chess pieces move: King Queen Rook Bishop Knight Pawn To complete this requirement, using Scouting s Teaching EDGE, teach requirement 3a, b, & c, to a Scout who does not know how to play chess. Taught to:

8 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.4 4. Do the following: a. Demonstrate scorekeeping using the algebraic system of chess notation. Scorekeeping: White Black b. Discuss the differences between the opening, the middle game, and the endgame. Opening: Middle game: Endgame:

9 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.5 4. continued c. Explain four opening principles. Opening principles: Castling: d. Explain the four rules for castling. e. On a chessboard, demonstrate a scholar s mate and a fool s mate. Scholar s Mate Fool s Mate

10 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.6 4. continued f. Demonstrate on a chessboard four ways a chess game can end in a draw. Chess game draws:

11 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.7 5. Do the following: a. Explain four of the following elements of chess strategy: exploiting weaknesses, force, king safety, pawn structure, space, tempo, time. Explain four of the following: Exploiting weaknesses Force King safety Pawn structure Space Tempo Time b. Explain any five of these chess tactics: clearance sacrifice, decoy, discovered attack, double attack, fork, interposing, overloading, overprotecting, pin, remove the defender, skewer, zwischenzug. Explain any five of these tactics: Clearance sacrifice Decoy Discovered attack Double attack Fork Interposing Overloading Overprotecting Pin Remove the defender Skewer Zwischensug

12 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.8 5. continued c. Set up a chessboard with the white king on e1, the white rooks on a1 and h1, and the black king on e5. With white to move first, demonstrate how to force checkmate on the black king. Demonstrate checkmate on the black king: d. Set up and solve five direct-mate problems provided by your merit badge counselor. Direct-mate problems: 1. 2.

13 CHESS WORKBOOK, p.9 5d. continued Direct-mate problems:

14 CHESS WORKBOOK, p Do ONE of the following: a. Play at least three games of chess with other Scouts and/or your merit badge counselor. Replay the games from your score sheets and discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently. Game #1: Game #2: Game #3: Replay Game #1: Replay Game #2: Replay Game #3: b. Play in a scholastic (youth) chess tournament and use your score sheets from that tournament to replay your games with your merit badge counselor. Discuss with your counselor how you might have played each game differently. Tournament: Replay games: c. Organize and run a chess tournament with at least four players, plus you. Have each competitor play at least two games. Use the OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL OFFICIAL SCORESHEET for the Tournament on Sunday Morning. Tournament:

15 United States Chess Federation (USCF) Telephone: Website: ORGANIZATIONS and WEB SITES (Whenever you go online, be sure you have your parent s permission first.) USCF Sales Chess Equipment, Videos, and Books Website: USCF State Scholastic Chess Coordinators Website: World Chess Federation (FIDE) Website: ChessBase Chess News, Software, Videos, DVDs Website: Chess Coach Information Contact Jerry Nash at jnash@uschess.org Think Like a King Chess Tutorial software Website:

16 OVERLAND TRAILS COUNCIL OFFICIAL SCORESHEET: ROUND White: Black: Board: Section: Date: White Black White Black White Black Developed from page 81, Chess Merit Badge Pamphlet, Boy Scouts of America, 2011 White Won Black Won Draw