Free Chess Course for Intermediate Players

This free online chess course is aimed at the late-beginner to intermediate level chess players. The course will help you understand the fundamentals of chess strategy.

An in-depth study of the chess lessons below will provide you with the essential knowledge you need to become a much stronger chess player.

The Free Chess Course for Intermediate Players

  1. Introduction to the free chess course – chessfox.com
  2. Why understanding the objectives in chess is so important
  3. Introduction to the 5 main objectives of a chess game
  4. Objectives in Chess: Material Advantage
  5. How to use a material advantage in chess
  6. How to use a local majority of force to create a material advantage
  7. 6 Ways to achieve a material advantage in chess
  8. How to play in chess positions that feature material imbalances
  9. Objectives in Chess: Piece-activity and development
  10. The importance of coordination in piece-development
  11. Piece-development: How to give useful roles to your pieces
  12. Chess Openings: Which pieces should be developed first?
  13. Chess Strategies: Accumulating small advantages in development
  14. 5 Ways to achieve your development objective in chess
  15. The Pawns: Their strengths and weaknesses
  16. The Knights: Their strengths and weaknesses
  17. The Bishops: Their strengths and weaknesses
  18. The Rooks: Their strengths and weaknesses
  19. The Queen: Her strengths and weaknesses
  20. The King: His strengths and weaknesses
  21. Objectives in Chess: Control the Centre
  22. How to measure center-control in chess
  23. The advantages of centralizing your chess pieces
  24. 5 Ways to increase your control over the centre
  25. Objectives in Chess: Keep the king safe
  26. 5 Ways to achieve your king-safety objective in chess
  27. Objectives in Chess: Keep a strong pawn-structure
  28. Why a strong pawn-structure is a valuable asset
  29. 5 Ways to achieve your pawn-structure objectives
  30. How to evaluate a chess position
  31. How to evaluate progress in the material objective
  32. How to evaluate progress in the development objective
  33. How to evaluate progress in the center-control objective
  34. How to evaluate progress in the king-safety objective
  35. How to evaluate progress in the pawn-structure objective
  36. The role of intuition in evaluating a chess position
  37. The idea of compensation in evaluating a chess position
  38. Example of the complete chess evaluation process

If you’re looking for top notch chess lessons from grandmasters (their instructors are all grandmasters) check out grandmastermac.com.

If you completed all the lessons in this free chess course, and if you have not done so yet, I highly recommend you do the 10-Day Chess Challenge. It is a great way to further improve your calculation and evaluation skill.

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