Chess Path

Learn chess from your very first move to master level. Free, no sign-up, and it works offline once opened.

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What is inside

• 60 movement games that teach how every piece moves.
• 13,000 real puzzles from Lichess games, in order of difficulty, with a puzzle rating that tracks your level.
• A placement test, so stronger players skip what they already know.
• Spaced review: puzzles you miss come back tomorrow, ones you solve come back later so they stick.
• A bot with 9 levels. After a game, review it: your own mistakes become your own puzzles, with the reason each one lost.
• Endgame drills checked against tablebases, strategy exercises, and a coach that finds the patterns you miss most. Read every endgame and its idea.
• Opening drills: 12 openings for White and Black (Italian, Ruy Lopez, London, Sicilian Najdorf, Caro-Kann, French, King's Indian and more), each with a branch for when your opponent goes another way. Moves you miss become hard-move drills, and after a game you see where you left your line. Read every opening line and its plan.

The course

1. The board and the pieces
2. Pawns and the rules that end games
3. Winning material and the two-rook mate
4. First checkmates and not losing pieces
5. The four big tricks
6. Opening like a player, not a memoriser
7. Removing the defender
8. Endgames you must know
9. Seeing further
10. Plans when there is no trick
11. Club expert
12. Toward master

Puzzles from the Lichess puzzle database (CC0). Thank you, Lichess.