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Free lessons for orphaned children

Ararat is an international network of chess schools. We fund free chess tuition for children living in children's homes in two countries: our teachers work with them, and neither the homes nor the families pay anything for the lessons.

We believe everyone needs help — everyone, everyone, everyone. These children are innocent souls whose dreams are as simple as fairy tales. Our teachers, like fairies with magic wands, give them the chance to learn to think logically and clearly, so that they can make their own future more fruitful.

Yes! It is possible — it is real — it is Ararat!

Course content: 4 sections, 84 lessons, 10 weeks

For beginners — 17 lessons
  1. The history of chess
  2. The basic rules of the game
  3. The rook and the bishop
  4. The queen and the king
  5. The knight
  6. Castling
  7. The pawn and en passant
  8. The value of the pieces
  9. What is check?
  10. What is checkmate?
  11. Mate with two rooks and with the queen
  12. Mate with two bishops
  13. What is stalemate?
  14. The start of the game
  15. Principles of opening play
  16. Draws in chess
  17. Perpetual check
Basic level — 30 lessons
  1. What to do after the opening
  2. Typical opening mistakes, instructive games
  3. Endgame fundamentals. Promoting pawns
  4. The rule of the square
  5. Defending pieces
  6. Key squares and opposition
  7. The passed rook's pawn and the outside passed pawn
  8. The rules of chess in competition
  9. What is a double check?
  10. Recording the game. Chess ratings and titles. The rating list
  11. Converting a material advantage
  12. The double attack (fork)
  13. Discovered check and double check, winning material with a discovered check
  14. The pin
  15. The in-between move (zwischenzug)
  16. The mating net
  17. The smothered mate
  18. The skewer
  19. The decoy
  20. Deflection
  21. Smothered mate and blocking
  22. Seizing a strong point
  23. Key squares
  24. Trapping a piece
  25. The counter-blow
  26. The X-ray attack
  27. Zugzwang in chess
  28. Positional play. The open file
  29. Exchanging pieces
  30. Pawn placement and pawn structure
Advanced level — 22 lessons
  1. The fight for the centre — the foundation of strategy
  2. Weak squares
  3. Centre structure: the mobile centre
  4. Centre structure: the fixed centre
  5. Doubled pawns
  6. Pieces against a pawn centre — the role of the centre
  7. Introductory lesson. The principle of two weaknesses
  8. Basic strategic techniques
  9. How to place the rooks
  10. A good square for the queen
  11. An unusual route for the rook
  12. The potential passed rook's pawn
  13. The fortress
  14. Rook, queen and knight against a pawn
  15. The double pin — the cross
  16. Weakness on the first and eighth ranks
  17. Opposite-coloured bishops
  18. The exchange sacrifice
  19. The blockade
  20. The outpost and the fight for the open file
  21. Using open and half-open files
  22. The attack in a game of chess
Mastery level — 15 lessons
  1. The main ideas of the openings
  2. Seizing and winning control of a square
  3. The pawn sacrifice — to improve the position
  4. The exchange sacrifice — to improve the position
  5. The piece sacrifice — for an attack or to sustain it
  6. Creating and exploiting pawn weaknesses
  7. Knight endgames
  8. Bishop endgames
  9. Rook endgames
  10. Queen endgames
  11. An in-depth command of strategic methods
  12. The widest possible knowledge base of typical positions
  13. A thorough knowledge of the chess classics
  14. Keeping track of modern trends in opening play
  15. Broadening the technical arsenal

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