Learn Chess

Elementary Rules of chess Setting up the board The pawn The Pawn Game The Rook The Bishop The Queen The Knight The King Check and checkmate Castling En passant pawn captures How games are drawn A brief guide to the rules of chess Notation Algebraic Notation Forsyth Notation Simple checkmating patterns Mating with Queen and Rook Mating with two Rooks Mating with lone Queen Mating with a Rook Backrank Mate Typical Checkmating Patterns Fool's Mate and Scholar's Mate Openings Rules of the opening Tactics Making wise captures Chess Quotes Quotes from the world's best chess players! Intermediate Tactics (Be a tactical wizard!) Forks Pinning Skewers Discovered Attack and Discovered Check Removing the Defender Overloading Deflection Decoying A Brief Survey of the Openings (still under construction) Albin Counter Gambit Alekhine's Defence Benko Gambit Benoni Bird's Opening Bishop's Opening Caro-Kann Defence Centre Counter Centre Game Danish Gambit Dutch Defence English Opening Evans Gambit Four Knights' Game French Defence Giuoco Piano Grunfeld Defence King's Gambit King's Indian Defence Nimzo-Indian Defence Nimzo-Larsen Attack Petroff's Defence Philidor's Defence Pirc Queen's Gambit Queen's Indian Defence Queen's Pawn Game Reti Opening Ruy Lopez Scotch Sicilian Defence Slav Defence Two Knights' Defence Vienna