Chess

Builds from piece movements and notation through tactics, openings, improvement strategies, and the history that has made chess a game outlasting empires.

Explores pawn structure as the foundation of middlegame planning, teaching how to read the skeleton of pawns and execute concrete plans like pawn breaks, blockades, and prophylaxis.

Teaches the mathematical foundations of endgame play—king activity, opposition, the square of the pawn, key squares, and zugzwang—through interactive positions and essential techniques.

Explores opening strategy through vocabulary, families, repertoire, and principles, teaching how to choose a road rather than memorize lines.

Teaches the discipline of calculating forced sequences through candidate moves, forcing moves (checks, captures, threats), visualization, and the patterns that set up basic tactics into winning combinations.

Explores five schools of chess thought through immortal games, masterpiece analysis, and the champions who redefined how the game is played across two centuries.

Explores how engines evaluate positions and search game trees through minimax and alpha-beta pruning, then examines what machine dominance has meant for chess and the game itself.