Learn to Play Chess

Learn to Play Chess
From Beginner to Advanced Beginner
For the Beginner Getting Started: How to Play Chess : the Rules Basic Concepts of Chess : the Tools Step Through the Openings Checkmates with Names Quizzes: Notation, Setup, and Moves Check and Checkmate Image Galleries: Chess Tactics Illustrated For the Advanced Beginner Openings: Build an Opening Repertoire Part 1 - Avoid losing in the opening Part 2 - Select one move per position Part 3 - Practical considerations Part 4 - Unusual First Moves Part 5 - Introduction to 1.e4 Part 6 - Introduction to 1.d4 Top 10 Popular Chess Openings ECO at a Glance Traps! - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 • View Full Games Gambits! - Part 1, Part 2 Middle Games: Improve Your Middle Game Part 1 - Patterns Part 2 - Combinations Part 3 - Plans Part 4 - Double Attacks (with PGN) Part 5 - Open Lines Part 6 - King Safety Part 7 - Pawn Structure Part 8 - Piece Placement and Chess Strategy Part 9 - Kasparov - X3D Fritz, New York, 2003 Tactical Puzzles Steinitz on the 'Relative Value of the Pieces' Relative Value of Pieces and Principles of Play Endgames: Elementary endgames Part 1 - From Getting Started : Basic Concepts (above) Part 2 - Pieces in combat, no Pawns Part 3a - Major piece without Pawns vs. Pawn without pieces Part 3b - Minor piece without Pawns vs. Pawn without pieces Part 4 - Piece plus Pawn vs. equivalent piece without Pawn Part 5 - King and Pawn Part 6 - Rook's Pawn Part 7 - Outside Passed Pawn : (with Knights, Bishops, Bishop vs. Knight, and Major Pieces). Part 8 - Rook plus a lone Pawn vs. a Rook Part 9 - Strengths and weaknesses of the minor pieces (with PGN) Part 10 - Endgame Studies Complete games: Classic Chess : View 64 Great Games Opening Repertoire : View Example Games • More of this Feature Fischer - Spassky - 1972, 1992 • More of this Feature

For the Beginner

For the Advanced Beginner