Things You'll Need:
- access to internet
- library card
- chessmen and chess board
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Step 1
For those new to chess, understand that everyone can learn to play chess games reasonably well as chess basics are not hard to learn and can be learned from books, online information and exercises.
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Step 2
With some basic searching, you can find someone to play against at your level. Some places to look for others to play chess games against are: family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, local chess clubs, local chess hangouts such as coffee shops/or bookstores (eg., Borders Books), Saturday chess clubs at libraries, community education programs, or even through computer software.
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Step 3
For beginners to learn some basic rules, moves and tactics of playing chess games, there is a series of books by Yasser Seirawan such as: Play Winning Chess (easiest one); Winning Chess Tactics; Winning Chess Openings; and others in the series. Other books are: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by Patrick Wolff; Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer; Beginning Chess by Bruce Pandolfini; and Chess For Success by Tony Gillam.
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Step 4
You can also search for good chess sites in cyberspace. For example, two free internet gaming room sites are: Free Internet Chess Server (FICS)/(freechess.org), and Games.Yahoo.com. There are two paid membership gaming room sites (which allow you to login free as a guest): Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com), and Playchess (Playchess.de). Two other good learning sites for chess games are: ChessMagnetSchool.com (fee required, but you can get a thirty day free trial through United States Chess Federation(uschess.org); and SilverKnightsChess.com (though a site for kids, adults can access for a monthly fee the chess videos that range from beginner to advanced).
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Step 5
You can even purchase good computer chess games on CD's or DVD's that have good instructional material such as: ChessMaster - 10th Edition. Whether chess is learned through books, computer software, the internet or chess clubs, playing chess is ultimately learned by playing and can become more and more stimulating and challenging the more you participate in it. Learn some basics, get some chessmen and a board, find some chess games, have fun and don't force it. The improvement will come at its own pace in this game you can keep on learning for a lifetime.
