Chess Lesson List

Unit 1: Fundamentals of Chess

Lesson 1: The Pieces

• 1.1 The Rook
• 1.11 The Bishop
• 1.12 The Queen
• 1.13 The King
• 1.14 The Knight
• 1.15 The Pawn

Lesson 2: Check

• 1.20 Check
• 1.21 Escaping Check

Lesson 3: Checkmate and Stalemate

• 1.3 Basic Checkmate
• 1.31 Checkmate in One Examples
• 1.33 Stalemate
• 1.34 How many checks/checkmates/stalemates

Lesson 4: Special Moves

• 1.4 Castling
• 1.41 Castling Exercises
• 1.42 En Passant

Lesson 5: Piece Value

• 1.5 Piece Value

Lesson 6: Hanging Pieces

• 1.6 Hanging Pieces

Lesson 7: Counting

• 1.7 Counting

Lesson 8: Basic Checkmate Patterns

• 1.8 Scholars Mate
• 1.81 Ladder Checkmate
• 1.82
• 1.83

Lesson 9: Think 2 Moves Out

• 1.9 Checkmate in 2 Moves

Chapter 2: Tactics

Lesson 1: Double Attacks and Forks

• 2.0 Double Attack
• 2.01 Forks
• 2.02
• 2.03
• 2.04 Rook and Bishop Forks
• 2.05 Pawn Forks

Lesson 2: Pins

• 2.1 Pin

Lesson 3: Skewers

• 2.3 Skewer

Lesson 4: Discorvered Attack

• 2.4 Discovered Attack

Lesson 5: Removing Defenders

• 2.5 Removing Defenders
• 2.51 Removing the Defender Examples
• 2.52

Lesson 6: Intermezzo

• 2.6
• 2.61
• 2.62

Lesson 7: X- Ray

• 2.7 X-Ray
• 2.71
• 2.72

Lesson 8: Tactic Checkmates / Checkmate Patterns

• 2.8 Checkmating with Tactic
• 2.81
• 2.82

Lesson 9: Preventing Tactics

• 2.9
• 2.91
• 2.92

Chapter 3: Basic Endgame

Lesson 1: What is the Endgame

• 3.0
• 3.01
• 3.02

Lesson 2: Pawn Endgames

• 3.1 Understanding Pawn Endgames
• 3.11 Pawn Breakthroughs
• 3.12