January 21, 2026
Chess Basics: Legal's Mate
Learn how to checkmate an opponent in fewer than 10 moves by sacrificing a major piece.
January 20, 2026
Chess Basics: Pin and Defend
Learn how to defend your material when an opponent pins one of your pieces.
January 19, 2026
Chess Basics: Pin and Win
Learn how pins can be used to win material in a chess game.
November 20, 2025
Classic Chess Games: Paulsen-Morphy
See how unofficial world chess champion Paul Morphy used a brilliant queen sacrifice to bring down one of his rivals, German master Louis Paulsen.
November 20, 2025
Classic Chess Games: Adams-Torre Back Rank Mate
See how an amateur player pulled off a win against a grandmaster in this classic 1920 game between Edwin Z. Adams and GM Carlos Torre.
November 19, 2025
Classic Chess Games: McConnell-Morphy
See how unofficial world chess champion Paul Morphy showed promise as a player from an early age in this matchup against local attorney James McConnell.
November 18, 2025
Classic Chess Games: Morphy-Dominguez
Blindfolded simuls were a favored format of chess master Paul Morphy, who played several throughout his career. In this lesson, we’ll look at one of the three games from his 1864...
November 17, 2025
Classic Chess Games: The Opera Box Game
See how Paul Morphy scored the most famous chess victory of all time in his classic Opera Box game.
November 17, 2025
Paul Morphy: The First American Chess Superstar
Before GM Bobby Fischer–America’s first and only World Chess Champion–there was Paul Morphy, a young chess prodigy turned international player whom numerous greats like Fischer and multi-time World Champion GM...
October 22, 2025
Chess Basics: King and Rook Checkmate
Learn how to win a chess game using just a king and rook.
October 22, 2025
Chess Basics: En Passant
Learn the ins and outs of en passant, a special capturing move pawns can make.
October 02, 2025
Chess Basics: Opening Principles
The opening principles are a set of three goals chess players aim to accomplish at the start of a chess game. Following the opening principles helps players set up a...