FAQs and Tutorials

Adam's Page
Material about chess openings, openings statistics, puzzles, and an essay on how to beat chess computers.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/index.htm

Alex Miller's Chess Basics
Guide to chess basics, history, notation, pieces, draws, and special moves.
http://alex-chess.ecoholiday.com/

Allexperts: Chess Strategies
Volunteer experts answer your detailed questions about chess strategies and tactics for free.
http://www.allexperts.com/browse.cgi?catLvl=3&catID=1332

Animated Chess
Includes move animations, wallpaper, animated games, and puzzles.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/chesspages/

Avler Chess
Online chess resource for learning to play chess, learning strategies, buying chess products, discussing chess with other chess fans and players.
http://www.avlerchess.com

The Basics of Chess
Tutorials on three levels.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8354/

A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings
Illustrated examples of mainline openings.
http://www.dwheeler.com/chess-openings/

A Beginners Guide to Chess
Made by Kirkules.
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/kirk511/chess.htm

Checkmate
Educational webpage designed to teach people about chess. Supplemented by a glossary, forum center, guestbook, and interactive games.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C005169/

The chess club of kwabs.com
Provides an articles on the basics.
http://kwabs.com/chess.html

Chess Doctor
Free newsletter and tips for all inexperienced chess players.
http://chessdoctor.com

50 Chess Games for Beginners
An interactive chess tutorial site for new players. Includes chess openings, notation, grading, links and a free competition. Requires modern browsers to participate.
http://www.50chessgames.freeserve.co.uk/

Chess Instructions for Beginners
Appropriate for those seeking to learn to play chess.
http://www.intuitor.com/chess/index.html

Chess is Fun
Clear instructions on how the chess pieces move.
http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html

Chess Openings
Website with assorted openings.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/slav.htm

Chess Pages
Features mini-tutorials and downloads.
http://www.freewebs.com/pc-chess/

A Chess Realm
A chess web site with free online tutorials, chess history, information and news, debate forums, product reviews and chess links.
http://c6b5fyang.tripod.com/Chess/main.html

Chess Rules
Rules, basics on how the pieces move, books, and a downloadable freeware chess game.
http://www.conservativebookstore.com/chess/index.htm

Chess Rules
Explain rules, piece capture and movements, and board setup. Includes sections on tactics, openings and endings.
http://www.chessguru.net/chess_rules/

Chess Tutorial Page
Offers chess lessons, instruction for beginner and intermediate players.
http://www.angelfire.com/games3/gmJeff/

Chess Visualisation Training
Free online step-by-step exercises which help you to increase your chess visualisation.
http://www.janmatthies.info/chess/cvt/cvt.htm

ChessKIDS academy
Free online chess lessons and quizzes for kids. Resource center for parents and teachers.
http://www.chesskids.com

ChessOps - A Basic Chess Openings Guide
Interactive study of all major chess openings, variations, gambits and defences, with over 5,500 illustrated positions.
http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/

101ChessTips.com
A collection of short articles covering strategy and tactics.
http://www.101chesstips.com/

Chintan's Chess Page
Chess problems, openings and tutorials.
http://members.tripod.com/chintan_d/index.html

ConradCHESS
Chess problem solving event with prizes, and links to free email chess clubs.
http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/conradchess/index.html

Encyclopedia of Chess Openings
This site contains games downloadable by ECO code, A00-E99 most of the games are good, but you just have to keep your eye out for the bad ones.
http://observer.homestead.com/openings.html

Glenn's Chess Page
Chess tips, study, lessons and instruction links.
http://hometown.aol.com/wgmcnatt/Glenn.html

Grandmasters Chess Academy
Chess training, downloads, skill evaluations and improvement guides, and a wide range of chess software and books.
http://www.chessaid.com/

The Great Pawn Hunter Chess Tutorial
Free chess concepts without having to memorize moves from an instructor. The teacher has taught many how to play chess.
http://members.aol.com/manusfealy/index.htm

Grob's Attack
Information on a chess opening. Provides game database, analysis, problems, and links.
http://nestore.mysteria.cz

Internet Chess Page
Chess trivia, openings, and games.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chesspage/index.html

Learning Chess
Concise, step-by-step instructions that will teach you to play chess. Explains the board set-up, the pieces, strategy, special moves, and how to win.
http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/chess/chess.html

Learnthat.com
A basic guide for beginners on the complex game of chess. It provides many helpful tips and teaches you the movements and openings every chess player should know with great ease.
http://www.learnthat.com/courses/fun/chess

Midwest Chess Academy
Chess lessons, games and links.
http://www.angelfire.com/mo/ChessLessons/

Online Chess Coach
Chess coach will instruct you to play chess better.
http://www.sonomalinks.com/chesscoach

The Orang Utan, Sokolsky, Polish... the Chess Opening: 1.b4!
The only page on the Sokolsky (also known as Polish and Orang-Utan) chess opening. Information on tournaments, CAP data, games, history and even facts on the animal itself.
http://www.angelfire.com/home/bstjean/sokolsky/

Unusual Chess Openings
A collection of twenty of the most unusual chess openings around. Includes the Hippopotamus Defence.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/unusual.htm