The course consists of introduction to tactical and positional chess. It includes various middlegame themes including decoy/deflection, removing the defender, Alekhine's gun, Battery, Sacrifice, interfernece, overloading, Rook endgames, pawn endgames, etc.

It also covers various opening starting with

1. e4

Ruy Lopez/"Closed" Spanish Main Lines

The Ruy Lopez -- Marshall Attack

The Scotch Game

The Scotch - Mieses Variation

The Classical Scotch

The Scotch - Steinitz Variation

French Defense

French Defense -- Exchange Variation

French Defense -- Winawer Variation

French Defense -- Classical Main Line

French Defense -- Tarrasch Variation

The Caro Kann

The Caro Kann -- Classical/Main Line

The Caro Kann -- Advanced

The Caro Kann -- Panov-Botvinnik Attack

The Sicilian -- Open Sicilian

The Sicilian -- Closed Sicilian

The Smith-Morra Gambit

The Alekhine's Defense

The Scandinavian

The Pirc/Modern Defense

King's Gambit

1.d4 openings

Concept of transposition, opposition, different pawn structures and basic plan.

Tournament preparation, analysis of games, grandmaster games, etc.

Endgames including Rook, minor piece, king pawn, queen endgames.