[JanecekPetr]

For complete cheers beginners who want to learn and understand the ideas of the game, I highly recommend buying an oldish engine, Chessmaster XI: Grandmaster Edition, as it contains a set of amazing, approachable tutorials by an IM Joshua Waitzkin. You might know him at the author of the Art of Learning book. Some will say that the program is old. It is. Who cares, the engine is strong enough for you, of that I'm sure, and there isn't much else you'd want as a complete beginner.

[piker]

> tutorials by an IM Joshua Waitzkin

Thought I recognized that name. He's the kid on which Searching for Bobby Fischer is based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin

[omega3]

I would actually advise against this game, the tutorial is interesting as are the different player profiles but I discovered it has a weird sinusoidal like algorithm where it would try to match your performance with some impossible, engine like moves after a series of weaker plays. It makes it pretty frustrating to play.

[rocqua]

I loved that series of tutorials!