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Learn to Play Chess

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Why Chess?

Elementary
Rules of chess
Setting up the board
The pawn
The Pawn Game
The Rook
The Bishop
The Queen
The Knight
The King
Check and checkmate
Castling
En passant pawn captures
How games are drawn
A brief guide to the rules of chess
Notation
Algebraic Notation
Forsyth Notation
Simple checkmating patterns
Mating with Queen and Rook
Mating with two Rooks
Mating with lone Queen
Mating with a Rook
Backrank Mate
Typical Checkmating Patterns
Fool's Mate and Scholar's Mate
Openings
Rules of the opening
Tactics
Making wise captures
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Intermediate
Tactics (Be a tactical wizard!)
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Pinning
Skewers
Discovered Attack and Discovered Check
Removing the Defender
Overloading
Deflection
Decoying
A Brief Survey of the Openings (still under construction)
Albin Counter Gambit
Alekhine's Defence
Benko Gambit
Benoni
Bird's Opening
Bishop's Opening
Caro-Kann Defence
Centre Counter
Centre Game
Danish Gambit
Dutch Defence
English Opening
Evans Gambit
Four Knights' Game
French Defence
Giuoco Piano
Grunfeld Defence
King's Gambit
King's Indian Defence
Nimzo-Indian Defence
Nimzo-Larsen Attack
Petroff's Defence
Philidor's Defence
Pirc
Queen's Gambit
Queen's Indian Defence
Queen's Pawn Game
Reti Opening
Ruy Lopez
Scotch
Sicilian Defence
Slav Defence
Two Knights' Defence
Vienna
Find the best move quizzes
Use of the chess clock
Improving Tips by Tryfon
Winning Tips by Tryfon
Improve Your Tactical Play by Tryfon
How important is tactical ability in chess?
Can tactical ability be learned/ trained?
A theoretical tactical thought process model
Assessing the positional elements
Assessing the tactical elements
The calculation of variations
Developing a winning combination
Making sure the combination is sound
Conclusions and Summary
Tactics in the context of positional play
Opening Repertoire by Tryfon
A system against the Nimzo Indian defence
A system against the Kings Indian Defence
A system against the Benko Gambit
A system against the Queens Gambit Declined
A system against the Gruenfeld defence
The Sveshnikov Sicilian
A system against the c3 Sicilian
A system against the four pawns attack

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