How To Play Chess

If you want to play chess here on our site, you'll first need to know how to play the great game of chess. Let us show you the steps needed to learn the rules of one of the worlds oldest game.

This chess guide isn't just for beginners, more experienced players can reference it to recap themselves of the rules.

We've broken the guide into three sections, each a little harder than the previous one. Experienced players can jump to any section they please, but we advise complete beginners to start at the beginning. So sit up straight and get that brain switched on. Here we go....

Beginners stuff

Bit more advanced

We hope you've enjoyed our chess tutorial. Of course, we've only just scratched the surface of the game. Much more information can be found all over the internet.

If you have a specific question about chess. Why not post your question in our chess forums? One of our members is sure to reply, hopefully solving you query.

You can also check out our chess resources page, which is packed with external links to various chess related information web sites like chess tipping sites and chess book shops.