Lesson 1 of 16
Meet the board
Step 1 of 3
First Moves
Learn chess from the very first square. No experience needed.
Tap a square or a piece on the board.
Practice
Short drills that build the reflexes every player needs.
Choose a drill
Name that square
0Correct
0Streak
0Best streak
Play the computer
Tap a piece to see every square it can go to, then tap where you want it. Legal moves only, so you can't break a rule by accident.
Your move
Set up a game
Changes apply when you start a new game.
Moves
Your pawn reached the last rank!
Choose what it becomes. Almost everyone picks the queen.
Chess has been played with these exact rules since the 1400s. The world's two hundred-year-old openings still work today, and so does everything you learn here.