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Play →Chess Basics & Piece Movements
How every piece moves, plus the special rules — castling, en passant, and promotion — explained clearly for beginners.
Read →Opening Strategy for Beginners
The 3 core principles of the opening, plus a look at popular lines: Italian Game, Queen's Gambit, and the Sicilian Defense.
Read →Italian Game: The Complete Guide
Five centuries of chess in one opening. Every major line, the Fried Liver trap, and the middlegame plans that follow.
Read →Chess Tactics: Fork, Pin & Skewer
The patterns that flip positions in one move. Learn to spot forks, pins, skewers, and discovered attacks before they hit you.
Read →5 Common Beginner Mistakes
Early queens, uncastled kings, missing opponent threats — the five habits that lose the most games and how to fix them.
Read →5 Positions Beginners Get Wrong
The early queen, the free-looking pawn, the back-rank mate — why each is a mistake, verified by the engine and shown with diagrams.
Read →How to Play the Middlegame
Piece activity, pawn structure, key square control — the principles that matter most once the opening is over.
Read →Chess Endgame Basics
Activate your king, promote passed pawns, and learn the essential checkmates. Don't let won games slip to draws.
Read →10 Chess Proverbs Every Player Should Know
"Knights on the rim are dim." "When you see a good move, look for a better one." Timeless wisdom, explained.
Read →How to Use the AI Analysis
What Best, Good, Inaccuracy, Mistake, and Blunder mean — and how to turn Game Dojo's feedback into real improvement.
Read →How Chess Sharpens Your Brain
Focus, memory, problem-solving, creativity, and even dementia prevention. The science behind chess and the mind.
Read →A Brief History of Chess
From ancient India's Chaturanga to Kasparov vs. Deep Blue to today's online boom — 1,500 years in one read.
Read →Reading is just the start
The real learning happens on the board. Play free, get AI feedback, improve.
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