Learn the board. See the plan.
Four colourful digital guides for learning the rules, understanding opening purposes, spotting basic tactics and choosing your next move with greater clarity.
CHESSHAVEN replaces dense notation and long memorised lines with visual patterns, short explanations and practical questions. Start from zero or choose the guide that solves the part of the game that still feels confusing.
The Board, the Pieces, Legal Moves & How a Game Ends
Learn how the board is arranged, how every piece moves and captures, and how check, checkmate, stalemate and other game endings actually work.
Simple Setups Without Memorising Long Lines
Learn what opening moves are trying to achieve, develop your pieces with purpose and reach a playable middlegame without memorising long variations.
Forks, Pins, Skewers & Basic Combinations
Train your eyes to notice checks, captures and threats, then recognise beginner tactics such as forks, pins, skewers and discovered attacks.
Piece Activity, Pawn Structure & Practical Endgames
Learn how to read a position, improve inactive pieces, recognise useful pawn features and choose candidate moves instead of playing without direction.
Learn legal moves, build simple opening plans, recognise tactical patterns and make more purposeful decisions with four connected digital guides.
£54.99
Four digital PDF guides · nothing is shipped.
Every guide combines short explanations, colourful diagrams, ordered checklists, practice questions and clear reminders to consider the opponent’s reply.
RULES · contents preview
OPENINGS · contents preview
TACTICS · contents preview
PLANNING · contents preview
RULES · sample page
OPENINGS · sample page
TACTICS · sample page
PLANNING · sample page
These are previews of the planned editions, not the complete ebook.
CHESSHAVEN guides are downloadable PDFs designed for phone, tablet or computer. Nothing physical is shipped. Delivery, printing and download terms follow the store’s real configuration.
CHESSHAVEN explains beginner concepts but does not guarantee wins, ratings or tournament results. Official rules and online-platform settings can differ or change. For organised play, always check the current rules of the relevant federation, organiser or platform.
Children should use these guides and any online chess platform with appropriate adult supervision and privacy controls.
Yes. Chess Rules Made Clear begins with the board itself. The remaining guides build gradually from that foundation.
No. They are digital PDF guides. No physical product is shipped.
No. Coordinates and simple notation are introduced visually and gradually where they help.
They are designed to support clearer understanding and practice, but no rating increase, win rate or result is guaranteed.
The guides explain broadly recognised chess rules for beginners. Tournament procedures and platform settings can vary, so check the current rules that apply to your game.
The visual explanations can suit younger beginners, but children should use the guides and any online chess platform with appropriate adult supervision and privacy controls.
All four CHESSHAVEN digital guides: rules, opening plans, tactics and planning/endgames.
Yes. Each guide is £15.99 and the complete collection is £54.99.
Downloadable PDF file(s), delivered through the store’s configured system once the finished ebooks are available.
Digital products are covered by the store’s refund policy, shown in full before checkout. Please read it on the policy page linked in the footer.
Begin with the rules, focus on the part of the game that confuses you most, or follow the complete four-guide pathway.
CHESSHAVEN — colourful digital guides for learning chess one clear idea at a time. Digital products only; nothing is shipped.