Teaching Chess to kids

As a parent if you wish to teach chess yourself and are looking for a good resource,  this free course made by NM Robert Ramirez is one of the best on Internet. 

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQKBpQZcRycrvUUxLdVmlfMChJS0S5Zw0

Child will surely learn a lot even without a trainer if you can handhold.

It's a world that can consume only bite sized content. But Chess requires discipline and focus. Make sure each session lasts for 45 minutes to an hour.

Practice Practice Practice. Thete is no substitute for practice, I am sure you will agree.

Here is a preview of what you can find in the playlist above.

Tactics:

Forks (Double Attacks) 

Pins and Skewers 

Discovered Attacks 

Decoy 

Deflection 

Intermezzo (Intermediate Move)

Obstruction or Interference etc..

CPR (Capture, Protect, Retreat)  --How to respond to a check effectively.

Pawn Play: 

Passed Pawn 

Isolated Pawns 

Backward Pawns 

Doubled Pawns 

Lucena Position 

philidor position etc..

Endgames:

Concept of Opposition 

King and Pawn vs. King 

King and Rook vs. King 

King and Queen vs. King 

Two Rook Checkmate 

Two Bishop Checkmate 

Bishop and Knight Checkmate etc..

How to Evaluate a Position:

Count Pieces ( Material Imbalances)

Pawn Structure 

King Safety 

Piece Activity

Building the knowledge of Openings in a structured way.

Many tips for positional play, such as:

1. Avoid Bad bishop positions. Bad bishop is one that is blocked by own pawns with limited mobility.

2. Isolated and double isolated pawns are very good targets.

3.Rooks should strive to control open files.

4. Do not trade your good bishop to opponents bad knight. Keep your good bishops as long as possible

5. Similarly, never trade a good knight for a bad bishop.

6. Trade your bad pieces for opponent's good pieces.

7. Be careful moving pawns forward. They cannot move backwards. You create weaknesses as those pawns cannot guard certain squares.

8.Look to place Rooks in 2nd rank and 7th Rank.

9.Open files must be controlled by Rooks.

10. Be aware that that one pawn has the capacity to stop two pawns of the opponent.

11.Backward pawn must be blocked and attacked. A pawn is backward if the pawns in adjacent files have already moved forward. Meaning it has to be protected by pieces.

12.Protected passed pawns are extremely good especially in end games. A passed pawn is one that does not have opponent's pawn to stop it.

13. You can trade off a fianchettoed bishop with a battery of queen and bishop.

14.Knight on a good outpost is worth a Rook. Go for such a trade off. A square is a good outpost if it has no pawns to attack it. Usually the square in front of a backward pawn is good outpost.

15.Blockade the opponent's pawn thus hindering development.

16.Minority attack - a and b pawns March forward to create backward pawns and good outposts for you

Many more ideas you would love to teach.