Chess.com has spent a great deal of effort preparing lessons for beginners:
https://www.chess.com/lessons/how-to-move-the-pieces
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https://www.chess.com/lessons/playing-the-game
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There are many more available on the Lessons tab.
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https://www.chess.com/lessons/playing-the-game/the-language-of-chess
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
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Hello. As I said in the title, I am a complete beginner. All I know is the moves, but I am interested in learning chess. I have downloaded some apps, but even the beginner mode seems hard right now. Where do I start? Thanks in advance.
If you know the rules including chess special moves like castling or en passant (if not then you can read about those here: https://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess ), then there are many places to start learning and improving. I recommend learning basic checkmates and theoretical endgames first. These will give you a great foundation and help give you some direction on what you are aiming for in a game. Solving chess puzzles/tactics routinely is also important (as is analyzing your own games) for improvement. As for openings, you don't need to memorize opening theory when starting out, you can get by really far on just chess opening principles: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-againÂ
Here are two videos which might help. The first one is a foundational endgame to learn the details of and the second one is how you can approach analyzing your games with a computer afterwards for learning.
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Hello. As I said in the title, I am a complete beginner. All I know is the moves, but I am interested in learning chess. I have downloaded some apps, but even the beginner mode seems hard right now. Where do I start? Thanks in advance.