Chess.com Courses

Everything You Need to Know About Chess

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This playlist includes four videos, designed to give every aspiring chess player the "one chess lesson of their life" if they were only to get one. Start with the Openings video, move onto Tactics & Strategy, lean about Endgames, and then Bring it All To…

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chess Openings

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A video series introducing major chess openings, from the King's Gambit and Ruy Lopez to Sicilian, Indian, French, and Queen's Gambit systems.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chess Strategy

Learn practical chess strategy through attacks, counterattacks, positional evaluation, pawn use, activity, and illustrative master games.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chess Tactics

A practical chess tactics course on recognizing and calculating skewers, forks, pins, discoveries, defensive signals, and checkmate patterns.

• YouTube
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chess Endgames

Learn essential chess endgame techniques, including king-and-pawn endings, checkmates, extra-pawn conversion, rook endings, tactics, and zugzwang.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video