The course is not really suitable for good chess players, or even average ones, wanting to add to their belts the scalps of weaker players than themselves. Rather its aim is to teach anyone interested who may know nothing about chess enough about how to play to appreciate the rich intellectual arena that it has been for over 1500 years. There may be a little tournament among participants towards the end of the course, but apart from learning how to play and the tactics and strategies needed to play well, the course will consist of interactive instruction and discussion on such chess-related topics as historical change, religion, human intelligence, gender inequality, problem-solving, personalities, chess-set design, advertising, sport, literature, film, war, science and computing.
