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 Printed Word

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


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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

Start with the Basics

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

The Bishop 1

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

Learn a few Tricks

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



Checkmates

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

More Checkmates

The Bishop Checkmate

Knight Bishop Mate 1

Knight Bishop Mate 2

Knight Bishop Mate 3

Good Knight, Dad

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

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.

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