Free interactive chess courses

Learn chess with free interactive courses

Pick a course and start playing real positions in your browser. From the rules to checkmate patterns and endgames: short lessons, puzzles after every chapter, and progress tracked lesson by lesson. No install, no signup wall.

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Learning paths

Each path is a journey: its courses in the order a coach would teach them, with your progress carried from one to the next.

Learn ChessLearn chess free, from the board up: how every piece moves, check and checkmate, castling, en passant and the opening principles that decide beginner games.Learn Chess EndgamesLearn chess endgames free: the basic checkmates you must never miss, then king and pawn endings with the opposition, the rule of the square and key squares.Learn Chess Tactics & CheckmatesLearn chess tactics free: the checkmate patterns every player must own, then the fork, pin, skewer, discovered attack and double check, drilled from real games.

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Every course runs on a real board that checks each move. Start with the rules, or jump straight to the tactics or endgames you want.

FundamentalsLearn the rules of chess free on an interactive board: how the board is set up, how every piece moves and captures, check, checkmate, castling and en passant.TacticsChess tactics for beginners, free and on an interactive board: hanging pieces, the fork, the pin, skewers, discovered attacks, mating patterns and mate in two.Playing Real GamesBeginner chess strategy, free and interactive: think before you move, opening principles, your first system as White and Black, and your first whole games.Basic MatesLearn how to checkmate with the pieces you have left: two rooks, king and queen, king and rook, two bishops - and the stalemate alarm that must ring first.The King and the PawnLearn king and pawn endgames free: what can mate and what cannot, the opposition, the rule of the square, key squares, and why a rook pawn so often draws.Checkmate Patterns ILearn the named checkmate patterns free: back rank, support mate, smothered mate, hook, Anastasia's mate, ladder and rook roller, then mate-in-two drills.Core MotifsLearn the core tactical motifs of chess free: the fork, the pin, the skewer, the discovered attack, double check and trapped pieces, drilled from real games.

What you get

Everything you'll use to learn chess

Learn by Playing

See every idea on a real board. Each lesson shows you the position, explains what is happening on it, then asks you a question about it.

Chess board

Starting position

Every game starts here. The two arrows are the classical first moves.

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