LEARN TO PLAY

Understand the pieces – we’ll show you how they move, go over key concepts you should think about with each piece, and then show opening principles and discuss things that every chess player should know when they approach the beginning of a chess game.

TOURNAMENT ANALYSIS

We cover all of the major chess tournaments from around the world. This section will always have the latest tournament coverage so be sure to bookmark this section and come back to see the world’s best battle it out for chess supremacy.

ADDITIONAL ITEMS

The Chess Website provides lots of tools to improve your chess game. Below you’ll find a powerful chess engine to analyse your own games and give recommendations for any chess position. We also have a list of additional sites that we support.

CHESS OPENINGS

The first few moves in the chess opening lays the foundation for every chess game. Most of the chess openings have been named and analyzed for hundreds of years. It is important if you want to be successful in chess to be familiar with some of the most popular openings and understand the theory behind the moves.

CHESS STRATEGY

Chess strategy is what makes chess such a beautiful game. After the memorized opening moves are played and each player starts to unfold their plan, the real chess begins to take place. Everyone likes to study opening theory and learn end game techniques but the middle chess game is where most games are won and lost.

CHESS END GAME

Welcome to the chess end game strategies page. Here you can find helpful tips on various end game concepts and positions, as well as practice against the computer to see how well you understand the ideas discussed here.