Chess Academy

Learning Tracks

Follow a clear curriculum from the rules and opening principles to endgames and advanced strategy.

Beginner

6 lessons

Build a correct foundation: pieces, rules, opening principles, tactics, and essential mates.

Learn the six chess pieces and how each one moves correctly across the board.

Understand when the game ends and the difference between check, checkmate, stalemate, and other draws.

Learn the practical rules that help you reach a playable middlegame.

Master two essential tactical ideas: the fork and the pin.

Learn essential checkmate methods against a lone king.

Learn the three special chess moves every player must know.

4 lessons

Turn the foundation into plans through pawn structures, calculation, and practical endgames.

Understand pawn strengths and weaknesses and how to turn them into plans.

Learn when a sacrifice is sound and when it is only hope chess.

Study the most common and practical rook endgame ideas.

Use open and half-open files to activate rooks and attack weaknesses.

2 lessons

Study positional pressure and demanding endings where precise evaluation matters.

Learn restriction, weak squares, prophylaxis, and converting an advantage.

Learn why many opposite-colored bishop endings are drawish and when they can still be won.