Chess studying and teaching materials archive

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Bishops 101

Bishops 101

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Pawn breaks 101

Pawn breaks 101

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Central Control

Fighting for the center

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Puzzle mini lesson 2

Black to move Orient yourself before continuing to the next slide

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White to move

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puzzle mini lesson

White to move: Try to orient yourself before continuing to the next slide

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Material imbalances 101

Material imbalances 101 Converting a material advantage into a win

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En passant mini lesson

En passant

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He was a four-time USSR chess champion, 10 times candidate for the World Championship and played in two World Championship matches. He was in the top 100 best players at the age of 75 and beat Fabiano Caruana at 79! He was the one and only Viktor “The Terrible” Korchnoi 👑

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"Hidden" feature of the knight

Hi, guys! Today I want to share with you one very interesting feature of the knight and show you one instructive endgame position. In the po

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Deciphering the engine

Deciphering the engine

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Tactics 101

Tactics 101

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Pawns 101

Pawns 101

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Openings 101

Openings 101

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Mating net mini lesson

Mating nets Get it

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Is there an app that actually teaches you chess?

Like, I know all the rules, but I haven't played after I left the chess turnaments in school. So every time I play against anyone online, they obviously steamroll over me.

It's like either you don't play chess at all or you're really good at it, I feel like, and I'm either just really dumb or need A LOT more training.

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YouTube is a vital resource for beginners!. There's an abundance of instructional content there, and you can orient yourself with some basic principles before delving into the ocean of chess. It really is an ocean! There's soooo many different parts of chess to study that, even when you do study all the time, you're still going to be pretty "bad" for a while. So, it's important to focus more on learning from your games and identifying your weaknesses than winning consistently.

Here are two very useful playlists for developing your fundamentals! They'll walk you through important ideas for each level of strength.

Building Chess Habits (FULL)

Featuring full episodes of Grandmaster Aman Hambleton's 'Building Habits' series.

Chess Steps

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Study Flashcards On K+P vs. K fundamental positions at Cram.com. Quickly memorize the terms, phrases and much more. Cram.com makes it easy t