The free, fun, and effective way to learn chess!

Yes. Chess is unusually easy to learn alone, because every rule can be checked on the board in front of you. What self-teaching normally lacks is correction, and that is what these lessons add: each one puts a real position in front of you and asks for a move, so you find out at once whether you understood the rule or only recognised the words.

Learn the rules once, then spend almost all your time playing and solving positions. Reading about chess feels productive and teaches very little - the moment you have to choose a move yourself, you find out what you actually know. Every lesson here is a board with a question attached, never a wall of text.

In this order: stop giving pieces away, by checking every move for what your opponent can capture; learn the basic tactical patterns - forks, pins, discovered attacks - so you spot them instead of inventing them; and learn a few opening principles rather than memorising long lines. Nearly every game between beginners is decided by one of those three, not by deep preparation.

Yes. Every chess lesson runs in your browser, free, with nothing to download or install. Coddy sells a premium plan for its coding tracks; you do not need it to learn chess here.

It starts at the very beginning - the board, how each piece moves, check and checkmate, and the special rules like castling and en passant - and goes on to the opening principles and tactical patterns that decide most beginner games. More courses are added to the space over time.

A rough guide to splitting study time: 20% openings, 40% middlegame, 40% endgame. The exact numbers matter less than the warning behind them - beginners tend to spend nearly all their time on openings, the part of the game that matters least while neither side is yet converting a won position reliably.