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Re:Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners? by madacol on Thursday August 01, 2019 @05:04PM (#20588355)
For chess, there's a PC game Chessmaster Grandmaster Edition

It has narrated step by step tutorials by Josh Waitzkin, it put you in special situations to learn basic tactics like discover attacks, pin or skewer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_tactic).

There are also tutorials for knowing the tiny details about endings with specific pieces, like bishops vs bishops where you have to be very wary of the color of the bishops and position you're in if you'd like to trade, or the importance of the bishops color to stop a pawn, or even the fact that in some situations the column which a pawn is in might determine if the game leads to a stalemate or not (some columns results are not intuitive at first).

As the tutorial advances it starts throwing at you historical games and puts you in control in a given position to make the best move starting with games when josh was a kid, which helps you compare your ability to him as a kid, so if you're also interested in chess history, it's really cool!

Re:Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners? by aasasd on Thursday August 01, 2019 @08:38PM (#20589768)
I heard good things about Chessmaster's teaching features, way back from the time of Windows 98. So now I get another thing to lament—that Ubisoft seems to have forgotten about Chessmaster, and it's not on mobile platforms.

(Upd: apparently there was an Android release by Gameloft in 2004, but it looks very questionably: https://www.mobygames.com/game/chessmaster___)