“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”

Between 2008 and 2013, I actively pursued chess and represented the Iranian youth national team twice (2010 and 2012), with our team finishing third in the Asian blitz section in 2012. That same year, my teammates and I also won the Iranian Premier League. Like most competitive chess players, I participated in and won many individual tournaments. Although I haven’t competed in official tournaments for several years, at the time of creating this course my online play placed me among the top 1% of players worldwide, according to a Lichess profile I created specifically for this course.

Having devoted much of my youth to chess and later trained in computational sciences, I now see an opportunity to combine my scientific perspective with my understanding of chess. That’s why I created this Introduction to Chess course: designed specifically for beginners, it provides a clear, solid foundation while showing the game through a computational and scientific lens. No prior chess knowledge is required—just an openness to an academic-style approach and attention to detail.

The course is divided into two parts:

• Part 1 (S1–S5) covers the essential chess rules and notation in just over one hour.

• Part 2 (S6–end) focuses on improving gameplay and developing strategic thinking in under two hours.

Part 1 (S1–S5) covers the essential chess rules and notation in just over one hour.

Part 2 (S6–end) focuses on improving gameplay and developing strategic thinking in under two hours.