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Chess courses from the first moves to the finest mates. Rules, tactics, and checkmate patterns, one short lesson at a time.
3 courses · 148 lessons · work through them in order, top to bottom
Chess · Beginner
The board, the pieces, and the rules — from first setup to first plans.
Chess from the first square: how every piece moves, what check, checkmate, and stalemate look like, castling, en passant, and promotion, opening principles, four first openings, middlegame sense, endgame fundamentals, and an annotated game to close.
52 lessons · 11 topics · 0/52 completed
Chess · Intermediate
Forks, pins, discovered attacks, and the calculation habits that find them.
Sharp moves that win material: forks, pins and skewers, discovered attacks, deflections, decoys, sacrifices, traps, and combinations, each in a verified position with a closing question. Assumes Chess Basics; every tactic is defined before use.
43 lessons · 10 topics · 0/43 completed
Chess · Intermediate
Every named mating pattern, from back-rank to Boden's — and how to stop each one.
Every named checkmate pattern: endgame mates, rook, queen, bishop, and knight mates, rare mates, and mates from famous games. Each lesson teaches the shape, a worked example, and how to prevent it. Assumes Basics and Tactics.
53 lessons · 9 topics · 0/53 completed