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Junior Chess Corner by John Cope
John was Oklahoma's High School Champion and Denker Tournament of State Champions representative in 2005-6. He has now combined his writing skills, chess abilities and junior perspective to bring you the Junior Chess Corner.

Chess Lesson Plans
Free chess lesson plans with exercises shared by teachers and coaches. Please share yours too.

Chess 101: The Basics
You're welcome to print/copy, use or improve this for club or personal use. Please send any suggestions to Mike Swatek.

Training Links

These are now organized in a more useful manner for your convenience. Please email Webmaster regarding any broken links or web sites you recommend for this list.

Beginners and Intermediate

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• How to Play Chess For Beginners and Parents from The Magic Theater
• Chess Is Fun: Introduction by Jon Edwards
• Chess 101: The Basics You're welcome to print/copy, use or improve this for club or personal use. Please send any suggestions to Mike Swatek.
• DP Chess where David Patocka has some very good material for beginners
• The Great Pawn Hunter Chess Tutorial in story form for younger players Player Level Status Sheet and diploma
• Basic Rules of Chess - from the Internet Chess Club
• The Rules of Chess the basics from FiniteChess.com
• How to Play Chess with glossary of terms from KidChess.com
• Rules: How to Play and Tools: Basic Concepts from Chess.About.com
• Chess Tutorial for beginner and intermediate from ChessCorner.com
• Beginners Training Lessons and Examples from ChessKit.com
• Match Mate basic instruction by elementary teacher Chris Laurie
• Ten Tips to Winning Chess by the USCF
• So you want to play chess, An Online Tutorial Written by Jeremy Cone
• Beginners and Novices from Chessville.com
• Beginning and Intermediate Instruction articles with Archive of Instructive Material, from JeremySilman.com
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• The Midgame from FiniteChess.com
• Chess Dominion Tutorial with several positional examples of piece movement
• Glossary of Chess Terms, from JeremySilman.com
• 50 Chess Games for Beginners animated chess tutorial program written for beginners, or new players, who wish to improve their game.
• Chess Secrets from ChessDoctor.com
• How to get to 1900 A rapid improvement chess course for all class players from beginners up.

Endgame

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• Endgame Notes the basics from FiniteChess.com
• ChessCafe's Endgame Studies with an extensive archive
• Jeremy Silman Endgames Study - chess author presents endgame articles.
• Chess Endgames from Chess.About.com
• Chess Is Fun: Endgames by Jon Edwards
• Endgame Training Lessons and Examples from ChessKit.com

Puzzles

• Chess Fun from ChessCorner.com
• Kid Chess Puzzles from KidChess.com
• Problem of the Week with archive from Chessville.com
• Susie Andrianov’s and Donald K. McKim's
  Puzzles & Brain Teasers with archive, from JeremySilman.com
• Benko's Brain Twisters with archive, from JeremySilman.com
• Tactical Puzzles from Chess.About.com
• Bruno's Chess Problem of the Day
• TestYourChess.com
• Checkmate Chess Puzzles 36 for all levels
• Chess Dominion Problems

Tactics

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.

  Chess Tactics Server with over 23,000 tactical chess problems with a degree of difficulty ranging from trivial to ambitious are provided to be solved against the clock.

• Jeremy Silman Tactics - chess author presents tactical instruction with puzzles and archive.
• Practicing Tactics by S. Evan Kreider from Chessville.com
• So you want to play chess, An Online Tutorial Written by Jeremy Cone
• Chess Middle Game Fundamentals from Chess.About.com
• Chess Is Fun: Tactics by Jon Edwards
• Tactics Training Lessons and Examples from ChessKit.com

Openings

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• Book Openings An Introduction to Common Openings from FiniteChess.com
• A Survey of the Openings from ChessCorner.com
• Jeremy Silman Openings - chess author presents opening theory articles with theory and analysis archives.
• Opening Resources from Chessville.com
• Chess Openings from About.Chess.com
• Chess Is Fun: Openings by Jon Edwards
• Opening Training Lessons and Examples from ChessKit.com
• Network of Chess Openings probably the largest collecting of openings of any chess web site, and its interactive.
• Encyclopedia of Chess Openings
• A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings
• CHESSOPS - A Basic Guide To Chess Openings
• Chess Openings HTML version of the ECO database that is distributed with GNU Chess.

Advanced Instruction

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• Advanced Instruction articles from JeremySilman.com
• Chess.FM: Internet Chess Radio - Lessons with demo board illustrations from world-class players and instructors from Internet Chess Club
• How to get to 1900 A rapid improvement chess course for all class players.
• 400 Points in 400 Days from ChessCafe.com
• Chessville.com several items under the Instruction/General Instruction & Advice drop-down menu.
• Chess Battle Strategy from ChessDoctor.com
• Chess downloads of 50+ games. These were played by average players and were analyzed by masters and experts.
• Chess Is Fun: Advanced and Great Games and Great Game Archive by Jon Edwards

General

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• Jeremy Silman Chess - chess author presents chess instruction, interviews, opening theory, puzzles, archive of chess book reviews and more.
• ChessCafe
• Chessville.com
• ChessCorner.com including Fascinating Games
• Chess.About.com
• General Training Lessons and Examples from ChessKit.com

On-line Play

• Internet Chess Club for on-line chess play and learning opportunities. This is a good site that seems relatively safe. However, parents should always monitor internet gaming by kids when a chat window is available.

Coaching Materials

• Chess instructional materials from Rockford Chess with downloadable, free, printable lessons
• Exeter Chess Club Coaching Page full of great lessons of all types for all levels.
• ChessKIDS Academy lots of beginner instructional material
• The Great Pawn Hunter Chess Tutorial in story form for younger players Player Level Status Sheet and diploma
• ProfessorChess.com with over 900 pages of downloadable material for a very small annual fee
• A Guide to Scholastic Chess provided in print from the USCF for scholastic affiliate clubs

Camps and Classes

• Green Country Chess
• World Champion Anatoly Karpov International School of Chess in Lindsborg, Kansas

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