Chess School

A page of chess drills beside the chess game. Five openings, played move by move against the book with the reason for every move. Watch the line first, then play it from memory.

Openings

The Italian Game, the Queen’s Gambit, the London System, the Sicilian Defense and the Ruy Lopez.

Tactics and endgames

Five tactics, the fork, the pin, the skewer, the discovered attack and the back-rank mate, with ten find-the-move puzzles between them.

Four endgames played against the engine at full strength: mate with a queen, mate with a rook, the opposition, and the square of the pawn.