How to Play Chess

For Beginners and Parents

Illustrated Explanations, Downloads and Advice	The Magic Theater Flash Movies Explaining The Rules of Chess, How the Pieces Move, How to Checkmate, and More
The Chess Board The Pawn The Knight The Bishop The Rook The King The Queen How to Castle En Passant Check! Checkmate! Stalemate?! How to Help Your Child Learn Chess Download: ChessBase Light (Watch the movies first). Here are: 101 One Move Mates (Chess Problems) Do these first. Here are: 323 One Move Mates (Chess Problems) Do these second. Here are: 265 Two Move Mates (Chess Problems) Do these third. Here are: My Favorite Twenty Games of Paul Morphy Here is: My Entire Collection of Paul Morphy Games (359) Here are: Thirty-one Short Games of Chess	Setting up the Board Ranks, Files, and Diagonals Review The Board The Pawn 1 The Pawn 2 How many Queens can I have? The Knight Good Knight's Game The Bishop 1 The Bishop 2 The Rook The King The Queen Castling 1 Castling 2 Castling 3 En Passant 1 En Passant 2	Check 1 Check 2 Checkmate 1 Checkmate 2 Stalemate The Draw Draw by Repetition The Fork 1 The Fork 2 Fork Trick 1 Fork Trick 2 Skewer 1 Pins 1 Pins 2 Double Check Double Check and Mate Opposition 1 Opposition 2 Opposition 3	Checkmate with a King and Queen 1 King and Queen 2 King and Queen 3 King and Queen 4 King and Queen 5 King and Queen 6 Two Rooks One Rook More Rooks Knight Bishop Mate 1 Knight Bishop Mate 2 Knight Bishop Mate 3 The Back Rank Mate More Checkmates 1 More Checkmates 2 More Checkmates 3 More Checkmates 4 Fool's Mate Scholar's Mate Stopping Scholar's Mate	Smothered Mate 1 Smothered Mate 2 Smothered Mate 3 Anastasia's Mate 1 Anastasia's Mate 2 Anastasia's Mate 3 Legal's Pseudo-Sacrifice Chessbase Light: 1. Download and Install 2. Install Database 3. Solving Chess Problems I highly recommend the following: Software specifically designed to develop and improve tactical skills. This is a wonderful book and very well written. It covers the Fifty Deadly Checkmates, giving the student a great understanding of how to attack and checkmate the King. If you have downloaded and used Chessbase Lite and want to move up to the advance version, you will definitely want to buy Chessbase 9.

Illustrated Explanations, Downloads and Advice

The Magic Theater

Flash Movies Explaining The Rules of Chess,
How the Pieces Move, How to Checkmate, and More

The Chess Board

The Pawn

The Knight

The Bishop

The Rook

The King

The Queen

How to Castle

En Passant

Check!

Checkmate!

Stalemate?!

How to Help Your Child Learn Chess

Download:
ChessBase Light (Watch the movies first).

Here are:
101 One Move Mates (Chess Problems)
Do these first.

Here are:
323 One Move Mates (Chess Problems)
Do these second.

Here are:
265 Two Move Mates (Chess Problems)
Do these third.

Here are:
My Favorite Twenty Games of Paul Morphy

Here is:
My Entire Collection of Paul Morphy Games (359)

Here are:
Thirty-one Short Games of Chess

Setting up the Board

Ranks, Files, and Diagonals

Review The Board

The Pawn 1

The Pawn 2

How many Queens can I have?

Double Check and Mate

Opposition 1

Opposition 2

Opposition 3

Checkmate with a King and Queen 1

Stopping Scholar's Mate

Legal's Pseudo-Sacrifice

Chessbase Light:

1. Download and Install

2. Install Database

3. Solving Chess Problems

I highly recommend the following:

Software specifically designed to develop and improve tactical skills.

This is a wonderful book and very well written. It covers the Fifty Deadly Checkmates, giving the student a great understanding of how to attack and checkmate the King.

If you have downloaded and used Chessbase Lite and want to move up to the advance version, you will definitely want to buy Chessbase 9.

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