Chess video tutorials

If you’re learning to play chess, the best thing you can do is see each concept in motion. Don’t just read: practice what you see, and you’ll notice you progress much faster.

On this page I’m gathering the guided resources available on the site: interactive boards, move trainers, and step-by-step guides. Let’s organize them by topic so you find exactly what you need.

Piece movement

Before talking strategy, you need to master how each piece moves. Without that, nothing else makes sense.

• Rook movement — moves in straight lines, horizontally or vertically. Simple to understand, very powerful once activated in time.
• Bishop movement — diagonals only, but it can cross the whole board in one move. Remember: each bishop lives forever on squares of the same color.
• Queen movement — combines rook and bishop. It’s the strongest piece on the board. Learn to use it without deploying it too early.

Once you’re clear on the movements, move on to the interactive piece boards: you can move them yourself and see in real time which squares they control.

Where to go next

Once you move the pieces comfortably, the natural path is this:

1. Openings — learn the first moves that work best and why.
2. Tactics — forks, pins, double attacks… the weapons that decide games.
3. Free course — the full journey from beginner to a player with judgment, structured into lessons.
4. Play against the computer — put what you’re learning into practice against an opponent that adapts its level to yours.

There are no shortcuts: the key is practicing a little every day. Every resource on this list has an interactive board so you’re not left with theory alone.