This is a quick guide to a video series: In this series, PlayfulSquirrel aka IM David Pruess plays the first 10-15 moves of a few chess games, and shares his…
There’s only one way to find out!
This is a quick guide to a video series. This series focuses on a rare, but still very important chess tactic: the skewer, in which a valuable piece is …
Tune in to find out just what a Skewer is, and start making them in your own games
ChessKid has two kinds of accounts – Coach/Parent (adult) and Kid. Our site is designed so that adult accounts have guardianship over kid accounts. Th…
The „Kids“ Page: The „Kids“ Page is where Parents/Coaches can: Find a list of
Sometimes Caro Kann, and Sometimes Caro Can’t…by Mrs Jessica E Prescott (aka BoundingOwl) Howdy y’all! Today we are going to look at a game that was …
See if you Kann find it.
Many of you have asked how to get better at chess. Besides practicing your tactics here, playing and analyzing your games, and not hanging pieces, her…
First, find a GM you really like.
Argentinian chess prodigy Fausti Oro earns International Master (IM) title at just 10 years old, and becomes the youngest IM in history to achieve it.
second norm at a recent norm event in Colombia, and then, in less than a month, now finds
Hello chesskids! Today we will learn about holding off the opponent’s attack. Sometimes it is necessary to weaken your king position to improve other aspects…
If you give the opponent however much time he wants, he will probably find a way
A note from FunMasterMike: I hosted one of my mini-camps this past weekend and many kids with very high ratings entered king-and-pawn endings but made mistak…
See if you can find it, and check out the rest of the ending next week in Pillsbury’s
Hello students, parents, and coaches! This is Paul Swaney, a.k.a.
Every school year, thousands of chess programs resume, and our job as coaches is to find
How does a child learn to play chess? Children can learn chess very early, some even as early as two years old! The key is to teach them in a child-oriented way, instead of relying on standard methods for adult learners or for school children.ChessKid has learned it is best to break up the lessons into segments and other great ways to engage kids. Here are several tips that can help every parent.
You can find the ‚basics‘ of chess, in both how to move the pieces and beginning
