The Curriculum

Train in order.

Everything in the house, arranged the way a player actually grows. Start where you are, move up when a stage feels easy — and return to Foundations more often than your pride wants to.

STAGE IBeginners start here

Foundations

Before plans and openings: see the board. Names of squares, colours without counting, the knight’s crooked geometry, positions held in the mind’s eye.

Square Senselight or dark, before you can think Coordinate Spotterfind named squares against the clock Knight Paththe hardest piece, tamed Board Memoriserhold a position, rebuild it Reading: Light or Darkwhy this is the foundation

STAGE IIThe first ten moves

Openings

Development, the centre, the safe king. Principles over memorisation — an opening is a promise your middlegame has to keep.

Classic Gameswatch masters develop — the Opera Game above all Reading: The Opera Gamedevelopment as a lesson Reading: An honest repertoirechoose lines you’ll understand The Arena · engine tiersplay your openings against the house

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STAGE IIIThe sharp edge

Tactics

Forcing moves first — checks, captures, threats. Tactics decide more club games than every other idea combined.

The Tactics Librarygraded themes that refute your mistakes Vibe Sprintthree minutes, three strikes Vibe Gauntletthree lives, rising difficulty Check Sniper · Attack Radarchecks and reach, as reflexes Reading: Forcing moves firstthe calculation habit

STAGE IVWhere games are steered

Strategy & the Middlegame

Pawn skeletons, weak squares, the six questions to ask of any position. This is the stage that turns players into commentators of their own games.

The Pawn AtlasNEW — the skeletons that decide the plans The Evaluation RoomNEW — judge positions like a commentator Blindfold Sequencehold the position while it changes Reading: See what the piece touchesactivity is everything

STAGE VWhere points are banked

Endgames

Kings become fighters, single pawns become queens. Learn four endings well and you will out-convert everyone at your level.

The Endgame Roomthe endings that decide real games King’s Escapeking activity, as an arcade reflex Reading: The four endingswhat to learn first and why

STAGE VICross-training

The Arcade

Board vision wearing a game’s clothes. Play these when you’re too tired to study — they train you anyway.

Pawn Stormadvance through real piece movement Knight Runnercross by knight move alone Queen’s Harvestevery line is a road Royal Feastevery move must take The Training Groundwalk the undercroft · play the eternal match

Scores from every drill and game land on the rankings — world and friends.