Study/Lessons/Coaching

Internet Chess Academy (ICA) - A service by GM Gabriel Schwartzman in which he sends two lectures by email each week.   You have three days to review a position you are sent, after which you receive a detailed explanation of the proper way to proceed in the position.  There is a charge for the service.

Chess Corner - a terrific site for beginners looking to learn the moves or basic tactics.  There are also some quizzes for the intermediate player.

Chess Is Fun - a great site by Jon Edwards, U.S. Correspondence Chess Champion with lessons for beginners teaching chess moves, basic strategy, and endgames.  There is also some material for advanced players as well.

Chess World - terrific site featuring unique chess contests and quizzes, timed and scored online.  Also featured are PGN downloads and an excellent set of chess links.

Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page - probably the best chess-related coaching page on the Internet.  There are hundreds games illustrating a number of different themes.  Be sure to visit the section titled "Canonical Chess Games and Positions".  You will find courses of study for different skill levels, handouts, and learning links.

Traveller Chess Sites - there is a huge amount of chess instruction to be found by perusing this web site.  Make sure to look in both the Chess Archives as well as the Huntsville Chess Club.

ChessKIDS  Academy - which combines free interactive chess lessons and quizzes for young children with a resource centre for parents and teachers. The site is still in its early stages of development - we'll be adding a lot more material over the coming months

Richmond Junior Chess Club 

365 Chess Lessons - site by John Coffey featuring a huge number of "find the best move" puzzles, opening traps, and endgame lessons.  You will also find a "Hot 100 Chess Links" list there in addition to some tips on how to improve your game.

Aleksander Vaysman, professional chess coach - Coach of six Grandmasters, 8 International Masters, and others

Alternative Chess Openings - covers chess openings for the club player, including wing gambits.

Annotated Games - Chessbase format downloads for training of intermediate players. From Gary Gauthier.

Anti-computer Chess - Rafael Vasquez shows how he's beaten some strong computer chess programs

Articles from CHECK - several lessons for Correspondence Chess players

htmlire Chess Instruction - htmlire is a site dedicated to offering inexpensive lessons from master-strength players.  They also let you to play or analyze a "World vs. their eight master level players" chess game.

Barnet Chess Club Learning Section - how to form a plan, improve your tactics, winning tips, book reviews, excellent technical articles, and some player biographies.  Updated often.

The Basics Of Chess - chess tutorials for the absolute beginner and intermediate player -- covers the pieces, moves, and chess notation for beginners, and twenty five test positions for intermediate players.

Battle Royale - The 1924 New York International Chess Tournament presented by ChessBase.

The Beginner's Chess Page - with several lessons about pawn basics.

BCP - Another site aimed at beginners 

Chess Coaching Online - a page with lessons by FM Bernd Rosen.  Diagnostic tools, a puzzle of the week, and online chess lessons are the main features.  The page is in German and English.

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

Chessdate - a nice site with chess news, events, history, and lessons.  It's regularly updated with recent information.

Chess Doctor - devoted to improving your chess game.  Best suited for beginners.

Chess Dominion - featuring tutorials by chess masters Jennie Frenklakh and Charles Gelman.  The site is also geared towards beginner and intermediate players.

Chess for Kids - nice site providing a good introduction to chess strategy and tactics.

Chess For Success - a number of tutorials for players of all levels about tactics and various opening structures.

Chess Is Fun - Lessons from correspondence champion Jon Edwards.

Chessnia - IM Javier Gil's weekly chess column, chess tutoring services, commented links.  He also has several well annotated games which his students have played.  Well worth a look!

Chessops - An interactive series of screens illustrating the main openings, from first move through to full development of pieces. Each position is accompanied by an explanation and a notation listing.

Chessplayer - From 1994 U.S. Open Champion IM Georgi Orlov. Among many other things, the site features a large section featuring chess instruction.

Chess Player Survey - a comprehensive survey of chess players, the results of which may be used to help chess players improve more easily.  Results are now posted!

Chess Problem Server - Choose practical (not composed) problems to solve from a huge database. Good as a trainer.

Chess Rules - shows you how the pieces move and how to setup the board.

Chess Sector -

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

Chess Tactics Trainer - several tactics tests.

Chess Tips - a number of chess tips geared toward the beginner.  If you're serious about improving your game, you should probably try a different site.

Chess Tutor

ChessWeb - featuring a number of short chess lessons by strong masters and grandmasters, puzzles and a couple of tournament reviews.

ChessWise University - an online training center.  By becoming a member, you gain access to audio lessons by GM Michael Rohde and IM Maurice Ashley, drag and drop interactive quizes, and other means of instruction.   This site is not free.

Chris Torres - chess coach based in USA.

CLARC - Chess Learning Architecture, an online tool for chess learning and analysis.

Claude Kaber's Homepage - Offers a number of nice tactics training quizzes from actual games in both Chessbase and PGN format.

Coach Macauley Chess - teaching and tournaments in Princeton, New Jersey as well as personal instruction, game analysis by mail, internet lessons, and scholastic tournaments.

DPT Chess - learn the moves, chess notation, and basic strategy.

The Dragon's Lair - study of the Sicilian Dragon and Maroczy Bind

Ralph Dubisch (FIDE Master) -

Duif's Place - a large, international directory of chess instructors

Ellensburg Chess Club

Engineering Chess - This website hopes to improve the reader's chess performance by teaching them how to plan in chess.

En Passant - a number of articles on chess strategy and selected chess links.

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

Georgio's Chess Corner - games, theory, book reviews, links, chessteaching and biographical information.

GM Jon Levitt's Chess Site - British Grandmaster discusses chess talent and aesthetics in a lively site including humorous articles and photos.

Grandmaster Chess School - headed by Alexander Khalifman

Grandmaster Corner - GMs for hire

Great Chess Moves - the worlds greatest chess moves, openings, attacks, defences, and tactics.

Hard Chess - Monthly column by Mark Morss from the Correspondence Chess Place site focusing on analysis of specific situations.

How To Improve Your Chess - tips from NM Robert Snyder.

Hua Lian Chess Club - a section on chess rules and a section where forty lessons are promised are the instructional features.

IM Igor Khmelnitsky's Chess Board - sample exercises, e-mail lessons.

Intellectworld.com - Chess Tactics - concise tactics tutorials, useful patterns, and some classic games.

Igncaio Marin's Chess Page - notes from training groups and tips to improve your chess game.

Inside Chess Online - among other great offerings, the site features a regular column by IM Nikolay Minev which focuses on various tactical themes.

International Academy of Chess - chess instruction from the comfort of your home.

Jonathan Schroer (IM) -

KhtmlarovChess

Let's Talk Chess - a great site with articles about relative squares, the lucena position, the philador position, and miniatures.

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

Learn2 Play Chess - How to play chess tutorial for newcomers to the game.

Loiodice's Chess Collection - a number tips about all phases of the game and other general advice.

Master Preparation - information about a continuing education course in chess.  Be sure to look at their lectures section.

Math And Chess - This is designed to teach math more than chess, but it uses chess just the same. Interesting idea.

Midwest Chess Academy

Mieux jouer aux échecs - French site with over 100 annotated games including a section on the Blakmar-Diemer Gambit.

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

Northgate Chess Club - a lot of information about chess study.

Polgar Chess Center - Game annotations, photos, the Polgar sisters' input to the chess world.

Rohde's Chess System/Kid's Chess Network -from GM Rohde.

Russian Chess GM Analysis

The SmartChess Guide To Chess - this page within the SmartChess site features basic information about the chessboard, chess moves, and chess notation.

Scott Taylor Chess Coaching - offers lessons over the internet.

So You Wanna Learn How To Play Chess? - From the soyouwanna.com series.

So You Want To Play Chess - a great page by Jeremy Cone which teaches you how to move the pieces as well as basic tactical themes.

Spraggett's Chess Wisdom - From GM Kevin Spraggett.

Tom Purser's Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Pages.

U.S. Chess Federation - The USCF has pages which offer tips on improving your play.

Victorian Chess Pages - articles on chess coaching as well as chess tips and advice.

Virtual Chess Coach - a chess page for the beginning to intermediate player.

Visual Chess -

WGM Anjelina Belakovskaia's Chess Page - with collections of images, pictures, her best games, and her reach uscf 2000 program.

Yermo Chess Academy - GM Alex Yermolinsky and FM Boris Men offer their services for a fee, but will, apparently, annotate a single game for free.

Zugzwang - Do the concepts of relative squares, opposition, and zugzwang confuse you? Here's a simple way to look at it.