ECF Silver – Skill Requirements

Silver Certificate of Excellence
The silver level is the perfect follow-on from the bronze. It includes skills such as –

  • Notation and writing your moves down
  • Special pawn moves: under-promotion and en-passant
  • Development and basic openings
  • Checkmate in one and two move puzzles
  • Some essential checkmates
  • Discovered and double checks
  • Forks, Pins and Skewers
  • Outposts

The Silver Certificate comes with associated skill sheets, which can also be downloaded here

Silver Skill Sheets – click on the skill you’d like to see:-

1 – Language
2 – Forks
3 – Double Attacks
4 – Skewers
5 – Pin
6 – Discovered Attacks
7 – Removing the Guard
8 – Rook & Queen checkmates