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Openings

Opening Traps You Can Spring

Six short, sharp opening traps you can spring on real opponents

Six beginner-friendly traps — Fried Liver Attack, Blackburne Shilling Gambit, Elephant Trap, Lasker Trap, Noah's Ark Trap, and the Cambridge Springs Trap. Each lesson is a short annotated game where you play the trapping side and guess the winning idea at every key move.

Tactics

Demo Course

Learn Scholar's Mate in four moves

A beginner-friendly demo: develop Bc4, swing the queen to h5, and deliver Qxf7#. You play White with three choices at every key move.

Endgame

Lucena & Philidor

Challenge

Endgame Studies

Events

Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue

Events

Immortal Games

Events

1972 World Championship

Openings

Play the London System

Openings

Play the Queen's Gambit

Players

Play Like Emanuel Lasker

Players

Play Like J.R Capablanca

Endgame

Elementary Checkmates

Learn the basic mating patterns every player needs

Players

Play Like Bobby Fischer

Players

Play Like Paul Morphy

Strategy

How Good is Your Chess by Michael Salter