How to Play Chess Course

Welcome to “Zero to Hero: Learn How to Play Chess,” an engaging and comprehensive course designed to take you from a complete beginner to a confident chess player. Whether you’ve never played before or just want to brush up on the basics, this course will guide you through the essential skills and strategies needed to excel at the game.

What You’ll Learn

• Chess Basics: Learn the fundamental rules of chess, including how the pieces move, the board setup, and basic game objectives.
• Essential Tactics: Master essential tactics such as pins, forks, skewers, and discovered attacks to gain a tactical edge over your opponents.
• Middlegame Strategies: Develop strategic thinking for the middlegame, focusing on piece coordination, pawn structures, and planning.
• Practical Exercises: Engage with interactive exercises and puzzles to reinforce your learning and improve your practical skills.

You will learn chess fundamentals such as how to spot tactics, and important chess tactics patterns you need to really start paying chess like a real chess player.
These patterns include: double attack, pin, skewer, forks, discovered attacks,  and much more.

You will also learn about general strategic these that beginners need to know such as how to place and activate your pieces for full stratgies effect.

How about mates? Ahh, who does not want to mate and win the game?? Well, you learn about this important topic as well, and discover key mating patterns which is important for every chess player.

And, there is ton’s of practice as well about all areas learnt in this course.

Don’t forget to check our study plans!
Other great beginner courses:
1000 Chess Tactics for Beginners to Intermediate
Beginner’s Guide to Chess Improvement: The Opening Phase

AND, use your new knowledge from this course by playing tons of games on lichess.org.

Enjoy your chess journey, and remember, we are here for any question!