Our Armor Method
At Happy Pawn, we’ve turned chess learning into an exciting adventure. In our unique system, students earn element-themed armors, much like colored belts in martial arts, as they progress.
How It Works:
8 Element Armors: Each represents a key milestone in your chess journey.
Unlock Each Armor Through Challenges: Conquer a series of fun and educational challenges to earn each armor, progressing step by step on the road to mastery.
Progressive Learning: The challenges grow in difficulty, ensuring steady improvement.
Our carefully crafted armor system blends fun with effective learning, keeping students engaged and motivated to achieve new levels of skill. Ready to earn your first armor? Start your journey today!
Level 1 – Snow Armor
Amateur (learning how to play):
• knows how to move pieces
• knows how to castle, check, checkmate, promote
• knows the value of the pieces
• knows opening principles
• knows classic checkmates (rook roller, queen’s mate, helper’s mate, back rank mate)
Level 2 – Sand Armor
Scholar (Basic tactics):
• knows the different kinds of forks
• knows opening checkmates and can defend versus them (fool’s mate, scholar mate)
• knows Italian opening • knows “en passant”
• Understand what are doubled pawns and passed pawns
• knows classic checkmates (rook roller, queen’s mate, helper’s mate, back rank mate)
Level 3 – Sun Armor
Explorer (Winning games):
• knows tournament rules
• knows the touch move and release piece rules and how to adjust pieces in a live game
• able to write a chess game
• can play with the clock
• knows more tactical themes (discovered check, discovered attack)
• knows how to win in basic pawn endgames (pawn vs king victory & draw opposition)
• knows positional notions as outposts
• knows tactical notions such as pins, skewers
Level 4 – Leaf Armor
Competitor (tournament compatible):
• Strategy : knows how to create and perform a plan
• Knows more tactical schemes
• Knows Sicilian defense and how to answer it
• Can enter real tournaments and score legit victories
Level 5 – Sky Armor
Challenger (Can top tiers tournaments):
• Knows the pros and cons of trading
• Improved understanding of endgames
• Decent opening repertoire
• Can focus and think variations through in long-paced game
Level 6 – Fire Armor
Expert:
• Knows a lot of checkmates
• Knows advanced tactical concepts
• Large opening repertoire
• Advanced endgames
• Can score top-tiers in tournament
Level 7 – Space Armor
Champion:
• Knows everything about pawns and their structure
• Can win tournaments
• Lethal on checkmate’s patterns
Level 8 – Shadow Armor
Super champion:
• Knows all checkmate that exists
• Top 5% of world chess players
• Must train under a master’s guidance
• Wonderful opening theory knowledge
• Possess good chess culture