Chess Tutorials on the Internet

365 Chess Lessons - A lesson for every day of the year.

50 Chess Games for Beginners - A series of interactive, annotated chess games to teach basic principles.

A.J.'s Beginner Chess Course - A tutorial for beginners.

Anticomputer Chess - Sick of getting beaten by your computer? Check out this page from Rafael Vasquez.

Barnet Chess Club Learning Center - Lots of great stuff. Excellent place.

Battle Royale - From the ChessBaseUSA site, this huge work ("part chess instruction, part historical novel") is a blow-by-blow account of the 1924 New York International Chess Tournament.

Basics Of Chess - Beginner, intermediate, and hopefully forthcoming advanced lessons and problems.

Checkmate - Has some good stuff for beginners to get started.

Chess Coaching Online - Tools to determine what ails your game, plus lessons, puzzles, etc.

Chess Corner - Offers a good tutorial for (absolute) beginners, and an introduction to the main tactical themes.

Chess Doctor - Free e-zine devoted to improving your chess (for beginners and intermediate players).

Chess Dominion - Has Java-based interactive tutorials that allow you to learn at your own pace.

Chess For Kids - This well-designed site featuring basic tutorials, puzzles, and tips was actually made BY kids.

Chess For Success - Dozens of free online lessons for the "advanced beginner" and up.

Chess Is Fun - Lessons from correspondence champion Jon Edwards.

chessKIDS Academy - Offering instruction (lots of it) specifically to help young kids learn chess.

Chess Kit - Site focusing on chess training with advice on analysis plus lessons in tactics and strategy.

Chessnia - Private coaching, instructive games & tests from IM Javier Gil.

Chessplayer - From IM Georgi Orlov. Has a few tutorials along with lots of other good content

Chess Rules - For beginners. How to play chess, graphically illustrated.

Chess Tactics - Neat page illustrating important tactical themes. (i.e. pins, skewers, double attack, sacrifices, etc.)

Chess Tactics Trainer - Easy to very hard tactical problems.

Chess Tips - A series of primers on the various phases of the game.

Chess Trainer - Indian site features combinations, practical endings, and annotated games.

Chess Visualization Training - Information & exercises to help train you to visualize/analyze chess positions in your head.

CLARC - Chess Learning Architecture. Interactive, on-line java environment being developed for chess analysis and study. At least, it WAS being developed.

Claude Kaber's Training Database - Claude is creating a tactics training database in Chessbase and PGN formats. It's quite good.

Nigel Davies (GM) - Training and articles from this British GM.

Mark Dvoretsky ("The Instructor" column) - Renowned chess trainer Mark Dvoretsky's column from Chess Cafe. This links to the latest column, but be sure to check out the archives as well.

DPT Chess - Basic introduction to the game and standard notation.

Duif's Place - Looking for a chess tutor? This is your first stop.

Ellensburg Chess Club - From basic principles to preparing for tournaments.

Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page - Excellent in-depth chess lessons to take you to an A player.

GM Chess - Has a number of free "lectures" to look at, with more forthcoming.

Hard Chess - Columns by Mark Morss [no longer being produced] from the Correspondence Chess Place site focusing on analysis of specific situations.

How To Improve Your Chess - No actual lessons here, but advice on what to do in a general way from NM Robert Snyder at the Chess for Juniors site.

Igncaio Marin's Chess Page - This page from Ignacio Marin offers some good advice on various topics.

Jim's Chess Strategy - Specifically, these are Jim's anti-computer chess strategies, with most of the advice being for when you are playing with the black pieces.

Kasparov Chess - Has quite a few instructional articles scattered around the site. The problem is it will probably take longer to find them than to read them.

Larry Evans Articles - Some old instructional articles from Chess Life by IM Larry Evans.

Loiodice's Chess Collection - Lots of studies and positions to help you improve. Check out the "Chess Study" and the problems section.

Logical Chess: Move By Move - Inspired by the Chernev book of the same name, games explained one move at a time (just a few).

Master Preparation: Lecture Summary - Lectures from a chess course. Worth checking out.

SmartChess Guide To Chess - Karpov and friends provide a tutorial for absolute beginners (i.e. how the pieces move), plus a list of "golden rules" for different parts of the game.

So You Wanna Learn How To Play Chess? - From soyouwanna.com, fairly silly introduction to the game for beginners.

So You Want To Play Chess? - Excellent page for beginners covers from how to play and all the basic tactical themes, well explained and illustrated.

Spraggett's Chess Wisdom - Pearls of knowledge collected for our enlightenment from GM Kevin Spraggett.

Tip of the Day - Have a chess tip from Tim Harding e-mailed to you daily.

Torr on Survey - What is the difference between a master and a patzer? Someone has taken a survey so you can do what the masters do.

U.S. Chess Improving Your Chess - Tips on improving and FAQ's for beginners from the USCF.

Virtual Chess Coach - Lessons for beginners to intermediated, plus advice to chess coaches and parents.

Visual Chess - Interesting approach to learning chess, based on Object-Oriented Learning.

Chess Aid - Providing a panel of GM's & IM's to give you lessons, analyze your games, or even play you themselves. You provide the membership fee.

Chess Sector - The Ukrainian GM's and IM's of the Chess Sector site are at your disposal (for a fee) to provide annotations on your games and a general opinion of your overall strengths and weaknesses.

ChessWise University - Fee-based interactive online school featuring audio lectures from IM Maurice Ashley and GM Michael Rohde.

Nigel Davies (GM) - Offering lessons to you anywhere in the world.

Svetoslav Nikolov Dorobanov - a.k.a. A-Storm, this FM offers on-line lessons, analysis, and tutorials on CD.

Ralph Dubisch (FIDE Master) - Offers lessons and game analysis services.

Easychess - Chess lessons via ICC and e-mail from GM Babakuli Annakov.

Dan Heisman - USCF National Master Dan Heisman offers public and private lessons for children and adults.

GM Chess - Get personalized help from GMs -- led by Alexander Khalifman.

Grandmaster Corner - Lessons from GMs for an hourly fee.

Kasparov Chess University - A ton of interactive lessons (you download a special viewer) for a subscription fee.

Igor Khmelnitsky (IM) - Offers chess coaching services. Find your skill level with his chess evaluation test (free download).

Igor Ivanov (IM) - Offers lessons online or in-person if you happen to be in Utah.

Midwest Chess Academy - Professional instructors offer on-line chess lessons for a fee.

Rohde's Chess System/Kid's Chess Network - Subscription-based online lessons from GM Rohde.

Russian Chess GM Analysis - Get a Russian GM (like Mark Taimanov) to annotate your games for you.

Jonathan Schroer (IM) - North Carolina state champ offers lessons.

Chris Torres - Scholastic chess coach based in San Jose, California. Teaches a summer chess camp.

Ziane Chess Academy - National Master Noureddine Ziane is a childrens' chess coach and chess camp organizer. (Texas, USA)