Chess.com Releases 50 Opening Lessons
Chess.com is happy to announce that we've released 50 lessons on the most popular chess openings. Developed by our team of master players, these lessons will teach you everything you need to know to take your opening play to the next level.
Many of the members of our community have already tried and approved the opening courses. Here are some of the messages they've left us:
Each lesson features three parts: an explanation of the opening's main lines and key strategic ideas, the most common tactics that arise in that opening, and a model game:
After watching each video, you'll find a series of practice exercises to help you internalize what you learned. You'll also get immediate feedback if you play a wrong move and can even get a hint if you're stuck.
But what if you'd like to get familiar with all the openings we have lessons on? Then you can take the master lesson, where we gathered all the videos and challenges about the main lines of each opening. Click the button below to check out this massive lesson!
Below is a list of every opening course we have launched:
1.e4 Openings
- Learn the Alekhine Defense
- Learn the Caro-Kann
- Learn The Center Game And Danish Gambit
- Learn the Closed Sicilian
- Learn the Four Knights
- Learn the French Tarrasch And Advance Variations
- Learn the French With Nc3
- Learn the Italian Game
- Learn the King's Gambit
- Learn the Petroff Defense
- Learn the Philidor Defense
- Learn The Pirc Defense And The Modern Defense
- Learn the Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense
- Learn the Ruy Lopez: Closed Variation
- Learn the Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack
- Learn the Ruy Lopez: Tricky Systems
- Learn the Scandanavian Defense
- Learn the Scotch Game
- Learn the Sicilian Alapin
- Learn the Sicilian Dragon
- Learn the Sicilian Najdorf
- Learn the Sicilian Rossolimo and Moscow Variations
- Learn the Sicilian Sveshnikov
- Learn the Sicilian With 2...e6
- Learn the Two Knights Defense
- Learn the Vienna and Bishops Openings
1.d4 Openings
- Learn the Benko Gambit
- Learn the Benoni Defense
- Learn the Bogo Indian Defense
- Learn the Budapest Defense
- Learn the Dutch Defense
- Learn the Grunfeld Defense
- Learn The Indian Defenses
- Learn the King's Indian Defense
- Learn The London And Colle Systems
- Learn the Nimzo Indian Defense
- Learn The Old Indian Defense
- Learn the Queen's Gambit Accepted
- Learn the Queen's Gambit Declined
- Learn the Queen Gambit Declined: Bf4
- Learn the Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs and Orthodox Defenses
- Learn the Queen's Gambit Exchange Variation
- Learn the Queen's Indian Defense
- Learn the Semi-Slav Defense
- Learn the Slav Defense
- Learn the Trompowsky and Torre Attack
