Chess Tutorial

Want to play chess? Don't know how? Don't worry. This guide will help you. Read on...

• Why 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
• Find the best move quizzes
• Use of the chess clock
• Improving Tips by Tryfon
• Winning Tips by Tryfon
• Improve Your Tactical Play by Tryfon
  • How important is tactical ability in chess?
  • Can tactical ability be learned/ trained?
    • A theoretical tactical thought process model
      • Assessing the positional elements
      • Assessing the tactical elements
      • The calculation of variations
      • Developing a winning combination
      • Making sure the combination is sound
      • Conclusions and Summary
  • Tactics in the context of positional play
• Opening Repertoire by Tryfon
  • A system against the Nimzo Indian defence
  • A system against the Kings Indian Defence
  • A system against the Benko Gambit
  • A system against the Queens Gambit Declined
  • A system against the Gruenfeld defence
  • The Sveshnikov Sicilian
  • A system against the c3 Sicilian
  • A system against the four pawns attack

 

 

 

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