Urgent! Join King's Gambit Course!!

People! We need more registrants for chess.com's first ever University Course. If you don't register, this thing may never happen! This is also one of your few chances to get lessons with me. Even if this works out, I'll tend to hire other instructors to do this; I won't have time to teach these intensive courses myself. This is your big chance!

Let me emphasize, you aren't going to just be learning about the King's Gambit-- the King's Gambit is just a vehicle. Yes, our examples will all come from the King's Gambit, but what you are going to be learning is:

- how to play the opening, particularly:

- how to handle open games

- how to handle situations with material imbalances

- how to weigh different values: material, development, center, king safety

- how to use the initiative/dynamic play

- how to recognize the "nature" of the game, and changes to it (how critical is the moment, what is the current pace of play, how are values changed based on the nature of the position)

- how to use logical thinking

- how to be flexible and original and fresh (in your thought process)

Finally, you'll learn a bunch of themes in the king's gambit (like typical patterns and ideas), and see how having a stock of themes helps your thinking in the opening.

Come on! Let's do this!! I want to send some disciples out into the world to mate others!

Not to say I will join, but it would be nice if you post the deadline.

The class starts tomorrow so... registering soon would make sense.

I'll accept late registrants through the first week; they can watch the first video recorded, and then jump into the group's private forum to ask their questions and get in touch with myself and their fellow students.

Pardon my ignorance, but how does one join, and what would joining entail?

Thank you.

how much is this gona cost me?

have a read here: http://www.chess.com/news/chesscom-universitys-first-course-3342

and then i'm happy to answer any other questions you may have about the course, including how much my already-signed-up eager students will cry if we don't get a few more registrants to hold the class!

I do hope this succeeds, as I'd definitely consider taking some of the classes in the future, but the timing of the first two classes rules out my participation. Saturday is better than Friday, since at least it's a weekend, but that's the day I play at my local chess club, so Sunday would be best for me. Or later in the day on Saturday. Or week nights (US time - maybe 7 pm Pacific/10 Eastern, for no more than 2 hours).

I'd say that for the first class or two, it's probably worth it for you to run the class with less students than you want. The publicity from positive student reviews should help make later classes more successful.

Another option you may want to consider in the future - Let the students pick the timing. ie Announce a topic that one of your instructors is interested in teaching, and then have potential students tell you what day/time is best for them, running the class at the time that will attract the most students.

Bad Karma!! I just started my summer vacation and I will be offline for some weeks,

i like your idea of announcing a course topic and then gathering the interested parties' availability.

i am willing to start the course with less students than the course is designed for, but there are some limits to how much we want to invest in a course that reaches only a few people.

I'd love to.

But I don't have $225.00 to put toward chess.

I love how you guys are making changes and positive advances, and I appreciate this. But nope...I need my cash.

W.

one note wally, first course is 202.50 with the 10% discount. appreciate your comment anyway.

igokiev- the way to register is to send me a private message, and i'll send you the link to pay the registration. before you do that, make sure you read the course info and ask me any questions you have about it. thanks!

Im wanting to work there and learn from u guys. I want to be the best in the world because it is possible... Im getting a MSIL Masters Science Library Information emphasis in IT would love work there after I graduate. I am really obsessed with this game. How do you become a Master?

I join ...

So, did the class begin with a smaller class size, or did you cancel/postpone it?

we did the first day's class with 9 people. we need three more to join this week for the class to hold. i think we have a 50-60% chance. we shall see. first class i think went great, so the 10 of us are really hoping it works out.

Great! i've joined!

How can I join????????????//

you join by sending me a private message. then i send you a link for paying for the course; once we receive the payment i will invite you in to the course group. happy to answer any questions you might have before committing to the course. just got student #10, so we need two more for the course to hold.

how can i join and how much  cost