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How To: Play with opening chess terms and positional concepts

This two-part chess lesson will get you up to date on the opening terms of the game, along with the positional concepts. This is perfect if you are in need of perfecting your skills.

How To: Use the most common first move in master chess games

This chess lesson will show you the most common first moves made by White and Black in Master level games. Not quite a master? Well, that doesn't mean this won't make you better.

How To: Use the removing the guard tactic in a game of chess

Want to "remove the guard" in your chess endgame? Well, look no further, you are saved. Watch this to see how to do the great chess move. An enemy piece may become undefended or underdefended if the piece (or a piece) guarding it is removed (e.g., captured, forced to move away, etc.).

How To: Use the overworked defender tactic in a game of chess

Ever here of the "overworked" defender" chess move? Of course you have, but that doesn't mean you know how to pull it off. See how to do it, right here. A chess piece is overworked when it has more than one defensive job (guarding pieces or squares) to do. Typically, the overworked piece is exploited by capturing one of the pieces it's defending or occupying a square it's defending. This forces it to leave one of its defensive jobs usually resulting in material loss or checkmate.

How To: Use the skewer tactic in a chess game

Need some more chess tactics for your arsenal? Well, why not try out this "skewer" tactic from this video lecture. A skewer is an attack on two pieces on the same line. The opponent moves the more valuable piece exposing an attack on the second piece. The skewer is a reverse cousin to the "pin."

How To: Use the knight fork tactic in a chess game

Do you know what a "double attack" is in a chess game? Well, the "knight fork" is basically the same thing; a simultaneous attack of one piece against two opponent pieces. Don't let your opponent win! Use this.

How To: Use the double attack tactic in a chess game

Having trouble with your chess game? Well, try this "double attack" method to do a simultaneous attack of one piece against two opponent pieces. This is also referred to as the "fork."

How To: Avoid losing at chess by cleaning up your mistakes

Are you using the Queen too much, or attacking with one piece at a time, or making mostly pawn moves, or that tricky Knight obsession, or "freeing" the Rook with a side pawn, or are you being a victim of a back row checkmate? Well, watch this video to to avoid these common chess mistakes.

How To: Avoid common chess mistakes

I bet you just can't win a game of chess, can you? You're probably rushing yourself, or not protecting your pieces. Well, in this video, you'll see how to avoid the common chess mistakes, such as moving too fast, giving away chess pieces for nothing (or not protecting your chess pieces), and not castling.

How To: Checkmate the king with the "knight jump" in chess

You have a rook and your king left? What do you do? Well, win that endgame, of course. Use this basic checkmate pattern to spar your king and rook against your opponents king -- "Knight Jump" Method.

How To: Checkmate a king with your king and two rooks in chess

Are you in the endgame of your chess game? Are you chasing that king around with a couple rooks and your king? Just can't get a checkmate? Well, use this basic checkmate pattern to end the game quick.

How To: Check, checkmate, and stalemate in a chess game

So, you know how to move those pesky chess pieces around on the board, and you know how to capture your opponents pieces, now what do you do? How about check, checkmate, and stalemate?

How To: Use chess notation to record your moves

Watch this video if you want to record your moves in a chess game. Using simple chess notation, you will be recording your moves in no time.

How To: Use the special moves for your game pieces in chess

You know the basics of moving the game pieces on the board and capturing, now you need to know the special moves of the chess pieces, such as Pawn Promotion, Castling, and En Passant.

How To: Solve the Rubik's Cube like you never could

This is for everyone who has ever been frustrated by this mightiest of puzzles. Solving the Rubik's Cube.

How To: Pair the edges on a 5x5 Rubik's Cube

See how to pair the edges of the Olympicube (V-cube), the Rubik's Cube of all Rubik's Cubes! Watch this two-parter to help you on your way to brilliance, because you know you can't get there yourself.

How To: Solve the Soma Cube

This is the solution to the notorious 3x3 Soma Cube puzzle. Well, there's one mistake -- can you spot it?

How To: Get faster at Rubik's Cube

Use different methods to get faster at solving the Rubik's Cube. Some of these you can figure out yourself, but is that going to stop you from watching this video? I don't think so.

How To: Break in a Rubik's Cube

See a method to breaking in your Rubik's Cube for faster solving. Yep, that's it.

How To: Take the center caps off of the DIY Cube

Take off the center cap of your DIY Cube. What's under there -- screws. Why have a Rubik's Cube when you can build your own DIY Cube?

How To: Assemble your own DIY Cube

What more do you need to know? Assemble a DIY Cube, for when the Rubik's Cube just doesn't cut it anymore.

How To: Find good Rubik's Cubes and stickers for them

Okay, you want to re-sticker your Rubik's Cube, what do you do? Well, watch this two-part video on how and where to get them, then on how to put them on.

How To: Use Rubik's Cube algorithms

See ten algorithms that if repeated enough times, will bring your Rubik's Cube back to the solve position.

How To: Take care of your Rubik's Cube with these tips

Okay, want to know all of the tips out there for the Rubik's Cube. Well, let me tell you, you'll learn great tips here, like never putting your Cube in your pocket, and always keep your fingernails clipped.

How To: Play with a Rubik's Cube Lego puzzle

Puzzles include multiple pieces each with a designated pattern so that when a user regroups the pieces, a picture or a particular image is presented, which provides practice to the coordination of the user's concept to space and structural relationship between pieces. However, no matter how large the quantity of the pieces is, puzzles only provide user's spatial concept in two dimensions. To enhance spatial concept and increase entertainment to the user, building blocks are promoted so that u...

How To: Play an Escher 3D Lego puzzle

In this puzzle, you only use one shape, and you can make a never ending cube. Just watch and learn. Legos are even cooler now.

How To: Solve a Rubik's Twist

This is for those of you who can't figure out how to solve the Rubik's Snake on your own. This puzzle is also called the Rubik's Twist. When you get bored of the cube, pick one of these babies up.

How To: Solve the difficult Snake Cube puzzle

This is a solution to the Snake Cube, a puzzle made up of 27 cubes connected on a string through alternating holes in the blocks. There's no sound, so you'll just have to watch, or maybe play some music in the background. Oh, and there's no talking, either.

How To: Solve a tricky Snake Cube puzzle

See how to solve this Snake Cube puzzle from somebody at WorqSmart. Watch slowly, keep your eyes glued to the screen, then blink, and solve it yourself.

How To: Solve the Snake Cube puzzle

When you just get sick of the Rubik's Cube, try this one out. See how to solve the so-called "F" cube puzzle. Why is it called that? I don't know, but I thought it was the Snake Cube.

How To: Play WordSteal, the addictive online word game

Here is a beginner's guide to getting going on this highly addictive online word game, WordSteal. Watch the first video for registering and logging in, the second for creating a game, and the third for joining a game.

How To: Master Rubik's Cube tricks, or patterns if you prefer

Here are some tricks/patterns you can do on the Rubik's Cube. You'll need to know how to use notation and algorithms, otherwise this will be useless to you. So, in order to do tricks, you need to not be an idiot, or just be willing to take it all the way.

How To: Solve the Rubik's Cube with the int./adv. method

First you'll need a Rubik's Cube, then you'll need to play with it, then you'll need to learn how to solve it, then watch this video. Everything is explained kind of quickly. Oh, one more thing, you should be able to solve it in around one minute. Okay, now watch.

How To: Solve the first two layers of the Rubik's Cube

--with algorithms! If you know nothing on the Rubik's Cube, then you'll probably still know nothing on the Rubik's Cube after watching this, because you should really start off somewhere smaller. This is for those cubers who know a little bit about solving it already. Watch both parts to see how to optimally use the algorithms to solve.