Introduction to Chess
Objective of the Game
Checkmate, Draw, Stalemate, Types of Checks, Anatomy of Mate,
Mating Pattern, and Mating Net
ObjectivePart1.pdf ObjectivePart2.pdf ObjectivePart3.pdf
Simple Checkmates
ObjectivePart4.pdf
Rapid Checkmates (Fool’s Mate, Three-Move Mate, Scholar’s Mate
ObjectivePart5.pdf
Alternatives to Mate – Resignation, Stalemate, & Draw
ObjectivePart6.pdf
The Chess Set: the Chessboard, the Pieces and the pawns
Chess_intro1.pdf (90KB)
The Pieces & the pawns with Introduction to using English Algebraic and Symbols
in Chess Notation and an Observation Regarding Learning Chess
Chess_intro2.pdf (137KB)
Moving Pieces & Advancing Pawns – in 4 Parts
Chess_intro3-1.pdf (42KB)
Chess_intro3-2.pdf (358KB)
Chess_intro3-4.pdf (39KB)
The Pieces & the pawns (individual tutorials)
The King (146KB)
The Castle Move or Castling (704KB)
The Queen
(available as full lesson (1936KB), or in separate smaller files)
The Rook (97KB)
The Bishop (to be posted)
The Knight (4 files)
The pawns (to be posted)
Chess Notation
Introduction, Section I: General Notations and Symbols, Order of Notations, & Styles for Noting Moves, Section II: English Algebraic, and Section III: Figurine Algebraic
notation.pdf (387KB)
English Descriptive (Section IV)
descriptive_notation.pdf (557KB)
PGN (Section V)
pgn.pdf (93KB)
Numeric Annotation Glyphs (NAGs) (Section V.A)
NAG.pdf (63KB)
Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) (Section V.B)
FEN.pdf (60KB)
Numeric for Correspondence Chess
numeric.pdf (444KB)
Chess Symbols
symbols.pdf (988KB)
Opening the Game
Chess_intro4.pdf (9KB)
Fundamental Concepts
Chess_intro5.pdf (26KB)
Phases of the Game: The Opening, The Middlegame, and The Endgame
Full Tutorial
Chess_intro6.pdf (92KB)
Phases of the Game: The Opening
Chess_intro6a.pdf (15KB)
Phases of the Game: The Middlegame
Chess_intro6b.pdf (17KB)
Phases of the Game: The Endgame
Chess_intro6c.pdf (14KB)
Phases of the Game: General Advice on Endgames –
1 key idea, 3 principles, 15 general laws, practical guides and 6 tips
Chess_intro6d.pdf (52KB)
Open and Closed Games
Chess_intro7.pdf (33KB)
Introduction to Chess General Lessons Beginner Lessons
Advanced Lessons Endgame Lessons Tactics and Strategy Lessons