If binge-watching The Queen's Gambit inspired you to unleash the potential chess prodigy in you but your attention span is less than eight seconds, here's the chance you've been looking for. Chandigarh-based Anmol Bajaj, a marketing professional and a chess coach, is holding a series of eight masterclasses that will help enthusiasts to ace the basics of the board game using storytelling. Bajaj, who has been playing chess since he was four and has competed in state-level tournaments without formal coaching, has students who play the game at both state and national levels.

"Anything explained in the form of a story is hard to forget. We may have grown up to forget the formulae we were taught in school, but forgetting the stories that our grandparents narrated seem unlikely. And so, I will try to harness the power of stories to teach attendees all about chess pieces, their movements, common jargon, conditions of winning/drawing/losing and special moves. We will also get into strategies of how to avoid the fastest checkmates and try endgames with one queen/rook, two rooks and two bishops, one pawn and so on," Bajaj shares.