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Chess Academy

Learn chess from the first move to checkmate. Six modules and 18 lessons: the board and pieces, how they move, check, castling and en passant, piece values, notation in English and French, how games end, forks, pins and skewers, a thinking checklist, mating patterns, mate in two, avoiding stalemate, opening principles, famous openings, early traps, mating with king and queen or rook, and pawn endgames. Eight trainers: how pieces move, a square spotter, material and trades, a fork finder, twelve mates in one, fresh mates in two generated and proved by the engine, an opening explorer and an endgame trainer against the computer. Every answer is checked by the chess engine.

Ready to try · Learn chess from the first move to checkmate. Six modules and 18 lessons: the board and pieces, how they move, check, castling and en passant, piece values, notation in English and French, how games end, forks, pins and skewers, a thinking checklist, mating patterns, mate in two, avoiding stalemate, opening principles, famous openings, early traps, mating with king and queen or rook, and pawn endgames. Eight trainers: how pieces move, a square spotter, material and trades, a fork finder, twelve mates in one, fresh mates in two generated and proved by the engine, an opening explorer and an endgame trainer against the computer. Every answer is checked by the chess engine.