👍 The complete set! All Sarah and Danny's lessons are here
So you want to have fun playing chess? But you also want get good at chess? And you want to WIN at chess?Join two of Britain's foremost chess teachers, GM Danny King and WFM Sarah Longson from the
Delancey UK Chess Challenge, and see if you can get yourself
Tournament Ready.
Win badges, bonus points and complete the level!
Sarah and Danny have trained some of Britain's best players. Maybe one-day people will talk about you like that and YOU can win a chess tournament?
But... there is work to be done if you want to get there. Our UKCC trainers, who have both played for England, offer you a fun rundown of
everything you need to get good at chess.
The Tournament Ready bundle includes four key modules. Complete them and you can really start out on the road to becoming a Grandmaster:
♛ PART 1: CHECKMATES
Checkmate is the ultimate aim in a game of chess so it stands to reason that to score points in tournament chess we will need to be skilled in the 'art of checkmate'.
The course examines the most common forms of checkmate including classics such as the Kiss of Death and Back Rank mate. These checkmates, and variations on the same theme, occur so often that practicing and perfecting delivering these checkmates is sure to give an edge to your game.
♞ PART 2: TACTICS
Tactics are short move sequences that lead to winning material (points), a checkmate or simply a better position. Typical patterns and themes crop up again and again in chess games and these patterns have been given names to remember them by.
Becoming familiar with these patterns so you can instantly recognize them in games is one of the fundamental building blocks of becoming a strong player. Tactics are so important that a strong player once remarked 'Chess is 99% Tactics'.
♟️ PART 3: THE OPENING
The opening is the first phase of a chess game and is where we have to decide how to activate our army. In this course, we explore the FOUR OPENING LAWS and their evil counterparts the FIVE DEADLY SINS. Mastering these concepts will enable us to consistently get good positions out of the opening whatever our opponents throw at us.
♚ PART 4: THE ENDGAME
The endgame is the final phase of the chess game. Normally we say we have entered the endgame phase when both Queens have been removed from the board. Often the nature of play is very different compared to the opening phase and the middlegame phase. Therefore it is important that the tournament-ready player knows what they are supposed to be doing at this stage.
Sarah and Danny are expert teachers with many years between them of teaching and inspiring people of all ages. Their course is full of puzzles that you have to solve - and when you've aced them you can say you know how to checkmate and win!
You will learn the skills you need without even realising it!
There are points to win, badges to gain and a leaderboard to get on top of. And our whole plan is to turn you into as strong a chess player as you can become.
We want you beating your friends, family and... beating everyone at the next tournament you enter.
So here is the ultimate guide to lift you from beginner to better in four simple stages and get you Tournament Ready.
Start today and terrify everyone. Maybe one day you will become a top player like Danny or Sarah.
